#451 Porn Addiction and Women: Break the Silence, Bring the Hope
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to porn, the gender gap is closing. Women (Christian women, too) are using porn and feeling alone, ashamed, and trapped in their addiction. Join us to learn why overcoming porn and sexual shame is not about changing your behavior but about allowing Jesus to transform your identity.
Guest: Jessica Harris
Show notes:
Quenched:Discovering God's Abundant Grace for Women Struggling with Pornography and Sexual Shame by Jessica Harris*
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| 0:00.0 | When you're in the middle of it and you're struggling with it, you just want it to stop. |
| 0:05.0 | You know, you can just, how do I get this to stop? |
| 0:07.0 | We go to extremes. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's throw out your computer, let's destroy your phone, like let's... |
| 0:11.0 | And we think that we'll do it without realizing that pornography is one of those unique struggles that you can have that kind of lives in your brain. |
| 0:17.0 | And so even if you don't have access to it, you can still absolutely |
| 0:21.5 | still struggle with it. |
| 0:24.5 | Hey friends. This is Julie Sladdery and you're listening to Java with Julie, a listener |
| 0:29.4 | supported podcast and outreach of authentic intimacy. The clip you just heard is from Jessica |
| 0:35.3 | Harris, who joins me today to give us a glimpse of what it's like to be a woman who struggles with pornography in a culture that has really treated this as a man's problem. |
| 0:45.3 | Jessica has been my guest on Java before. In fact, she is one of the first women I had on the show who talked openly and honestly about pornography addiction among |
| 0:55.2 | Christian women. And we're going to talk more about that today. Jessica is going to share her |
| 1:00.2 | story and we'll also get into questions about why we have been so slow to talk about the fact |
| 1:05.9 | that women struggle with porn too. Why it's not just about stopping the behavior of watching porn, but really |
| 1:12.4 | digging deeper into healing and why discovering experiences and feelings that first drove you to |
| 1:18.0 | watch porn are such a key part of your healing journey. You know, one of the most frequent |
| 1:23.2 | questions that we get here at authentic intimacy is how do I get erotic images to stop popping into my |
| 1:29.9 | head when I'm trying to have sex with my spouse? This is so common whether you've watched porn on |
| 1:36.2 | regular basis or not, and Jessica's going to share some of the strategies she is used in her own |
| 1:41.5 | marriage, so stay tuned for that. Jessica has a new book out called Quenched, discovering God's abundant grace for women |
| 1:48.7 | struggling with pornography and sexual shame. |
| 1:51.7 | This is a great resource for any woman who has struggled with sexual shame, and we'll |
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