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The Spiritual Perspective

48: Maria Ahlin on Porn Addictions, Changing Attitudes, and Other Difficult Conversations

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Despite its prevalence in our society, pornography is not a topic that is discussed very openly. Without having these difficult conversations, there is no way we can create the cultural shifts needed to move past the issues in the space. As someone who has never shied away from tough conversations, Maria Ahlin is on a mission to get people talking. Maria's viral TEDx Talk, Let's Talk Porn, has garnered over five million views, and she has given hundreds of educational talks over the ye...

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It was the night before and I read the statistics and I knew what I was going to say but I was just okay

0:09.4

There's been a few years. I think I have to Google this this I have to just see what's out there.

0:14.0

Yeah I googled and I did it really like okay so what would be the first thing that I see

0:19.9

if I'm 10 years old or 12 and I'm just Google important,

0:25.0

clicking on the first link, watching the first video.

0:28.0

And yeah, I'm not going to be too graphic,

0:30.0

but the two videos that I watch were graphic for sure.

0:34.0

One of them being one girl and I think five or six guys just beating her up, really.

0:40.0

And that was the first video. I'm not saying that's every video, but that's what I saw them.

0:44.0

And I saw I just kind of, the day after it went into this talk, just thinking that,

0:50.0

okay, we got to talk about this, because that's always been my deal, that if there's a difficult

0:54.8

issue, we have to have a conversation about it, we cannot be silent. Hey there it's Light Watkins and we are back with another episode of at the end of the

1:09.0

tunnel which is your podcast about hope. I'm sharing with you stories about people just like you and me

1:16.2

who decided to challenge convention and rethink what it means to be successful, who

1:22.4

took a leap of faith towards something more altruistic than just working for money.

1:27.5

And this week's episode is a very, very special one.

1:31.0

We are going to talk about pornography. But before we get into the

1:35.4

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1:40.4

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1:45.8

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1:49.2

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1:54.8

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