Is porn really that bad?

A great little snippet here from a podcast featuring Dr Anna Lembke’s, author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

A key point that she makes, and worth considering if you are currently watching pornography, is that your mind won’t be content to keep watching the ‘normal’ heterosexual content that you might currently be viewing. To keep getting the same level of pleasure you will need to start watching more and more perverse content, maybe even to the level of needing to watch content that is illegal!

This brings to mind the words of Solomon:

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income

Ecclesiastes 5:10 (ESV)

Whatever it is that we are craving, whether it be money, or goods, or drugs, or pornography, we are designed in a way that means the more of it we have, the less pleasure we will get from it. We are created like this for a reason. Isn’t this the Father’s way of telling us that these are not the things we should be chasing?

If you have already had to move onto content that is outside the bounds of sex between a man and a woman, in order to get the same level of pleasure that you had when you first started watching pornography, maybe that is a clear warning sign that it is time to do something about this problem that you have!