How Does Porn Affect a Marriage? | Ep. 560
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We know this topic is a painful one for all too many marriages, and we also know that God can bring full healing if your marriage has been damaged by porn. Today Dr. Kim shares how he's seen porn impact marriages over the years, why it's always a problem if it's part of a marriage, and how to start breaking free.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Why porn use is never a one-person issue
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Why keeping porn use secret makes it harder to stop using
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Addressing common cultural myths about porn such as, "everyone does it" and "it doesn't hurt anyone"
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Steps to breaking free if you are using porn
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
RESOURCES
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If you are ready to be free from porn, our friends at Restored Ministries offer several options to help both. Please do not hesitate to reach out.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.4 | Today on the awesome marriage podcast, we're talking about the effects of porn on a marriage. |
| 0:33.9 | Is it ever okay? |
| 0:35.2 | Is this something that can ever be used safely or legitimately? |
| 0:38.7 | Today, we're going to answer those questions and talk about the effects of porn on a marriage. |
| 0:43.4 | So we have to start out first by defining porn because these days it is not limited to an adult video |
| 0:49.4 | store or a specific magazine. It is widely accessible. It's in a lot of unsuspected places. |
| 0:55.9 | And a lot of people view it as just entertainment. |
| 0:59.0 | So Dr. Kim, how are we going to define porn for our purposes today? |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, I think it's any sexual subject matter that the intent of it is to cause sexual excitement, arousal. |
| 1:10.5 | And in a lot of ways, that's defined by the user. |
| 1:13.4 | I mean, I've had people that were addicted. |
| 1:16.1 | Their porn was something that, in other words, just for example, the guy that I worked with years |
| 1:21.6 | ago, and he, growing up, his grandparents, got the old Sears Roebuck catalog. |
| 1:27.2 | Well, this is a catalog that had a bunch |
| 1:28.5 | stuff and it had pictures of women in their bras. That was his porn and that continued to be |
| 1:34.5 | what was porn for him. So I think a lot of it is to, and that wasn't intended to be sexual, |
| 1:40.0 | but for him it became sexual because that's what he was exposed to as a kid of 1314. |
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