Why Sexual Addiction is So Dangerous
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Small compromises with pornography can lead to a serious addiction problem. When left undealt with, it will do a lot of harm to your marriage. John, Erin and Greg talk about why some men choose to look at porn, and offer help to those caught in an addiction cycle. Featuring Mrs. Rosie Makinney.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.2 | today. I think for a lot of people who find themselves in meshed in |
| 0:39.4 | pornography, it's pretty easy to think at the beginning of that journey I can |
| 0:44.8 | handle this. It's fun. It's what I need this, but I can handle this. I can |
| 0:49.4 | manage this. But that attitude could destroy your marriage. I'm John Fuller |
| 0:54.9 | along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron and they lead our marriage |
| 0:58.6 | department here at the ministry. We're coming back to a conversation that Jim |
| 1:02.7 | Daley had with Rosie McKinney and she's done extensive research on the effects |
| 1:07.6 | of pornography addiction and why it's so dangerous for marriages. One of the |
| 1:12.9 | things that people will begin to justify is is it that bad? It's just a little |
| 1:17.8 | assistance. It helps me. It entices a little arousal in our marriage and it's |
| 1:24.0 | healthy. I mean, you can hear the explanation there and you've heard that from |
| 1:28.3 | people. Speak to the wider damage that we open the broadcast with, you know, |
| 1:34.0 | the impact to a marriage because of pornography. Yeah. There are so many |
| 1:39.6 | studies now. We're talking hundreds of studies that prove the pornography |
| 1:45.3 | damages relationship. It's like I use the analogy. Do you know the story of |
| 1:50.9 | the snow queen? No. Okay, it's a it's a fairy tale by Hans Christian |
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