Women and Pornography on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

Amy, you are joining us today with a concern that a lot of people have written in about.

So what are we talking about today?

Yeah, so recently we've had lots of questions about women and pornography, and typically

this is addressed as a male problem, but it is also a common struggle for women, though

sometimes it may look a little different. So all Christians are called to flee sexual

immorality and pursue purity, but what does this look like in a sex-obsessed culture? What does it look like

to be set apart? I'm glad we're talking about this because I think that the questions that

have come in are right that we often do when Christians talk about pornography typically talk about it

like it is a male problem.

And when we do that, it creates a couple of issues that are problematic.

One is it can make it more challenging for women who do struggle with pornography to feel

like there's a place for them to discuss it.

It can isolate them and that is not good and will undercut their efforts at help.

The second thing it does is it makes it harder for the church to know how to help those people.

So if the church is aware that pornography is a problem for men, and I think growing numbers of people

are aware of that, then we're able to grow in our wisdom and focus on that problem and really help

men. But if we're not talking about the problem that it is for women, then we're not able to grow

in our wisdom and we're not able to offer up the kind of help and the care that they need.

So this is a really important thing for us to talk about.

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