Comments for Voices for Virtue

Comment on A Better Analogy by Voices for Virtue

Voices for Virtue — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:06:31 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing! It definitely does have different effects on everyone and we have to help people as individuals. Thanks for reading 🙂

Comment on A Better Analogy by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:04:22 +0000

I was just thinking about this analogy the other day while talking with a friend about her father’s addiction to alcohol. She doesn’t drink alcohol because she sees how it has enslaved her father and sister. Our family seems more sensitive and not immune to the sexual jokes or the “not that bad” sex scenes in movies in the world today because of my husband’s addiction to pornography.
It definitely affects some different then others. Thank you for this perspective.

Comment on A Better Analogy by Chel

Chel — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:29:14 +0000

My husband is a sex/porn addict. He was the head of an addiction recovery program in Utah and is now a facilitator for the LDS church 12 step program. He is a recovering addict. There is no question in either of our minds that porn is a drug!! Be it compared to alcohol or heroine, it is worse than either of them!! Porn affects more sensory and physical areas of the body than any drug and is harder to overcome. It is an addiction at the cellular level. It travels through the eyes, into the brain and then hits the pleasure area of the brain and body. It is Satans tool to disconnect men and women from their roles of husband and wife, mother and father. It has created a generation of single people who don’t need companions, because they have porn. We have friends that have had other addictions and have given them up completely and who cannot overcome pornography. There is more than just addiction with pornogrphy, it attacks our procreative gifts from God, some addicts have been abused and use porn as their drug of choice to relieve pain and guilt, which leads to more pain and guilt. Thank you for your research and your desire to help those trapped in this addiction. One look at porn will kill you, spiritually, that is the sad truth science doesn’t tell us or even believe. But, as the prophets have testified, pornography is a drug and the plague of this generation and I’m going with God, not science, on this one!! This is my belief and isn’t an argument on your research or anyone else’s beliefs. Thank you for helping those in need.

Comment on My Porn Story by Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 03:50:37 +0000

Basically the way I see it is that addict was set up from the very beginning. Without prior knowledge about this “excitement”, the stigma in our culture and the chastisement from his parents only fed right into his addiction making it worse which is just what Satan needs. I am a believer that punishing our kids for viewing pornography is so messed up that the child is going to have a lot of needless-shame (more than he/she already has) and escalate the situation.

A solution would be to explain a shameless-perspective on why the Church is strongly set against this by seeing the natural consequences of what actually happens in terms of “cause-and-effect” (God’s justice) and not actual, personal condemnation from the Lord and the Church. We can feel guilty without the shame. Another solution is to talk to our kids about masturbation, pornography, what it is, why to avoid it, and that if they view pornography to let the parents know about it and that they are NOT in trouble even if they are addicted as well as how common it is among us all.

This lack of isolation helps severe the chains of addiction that Satan sets up before they even begin to entangle themselves around the newly viewed porn user. Lastly, teach them about the Church’s non-coercive principle of agency that they are free to choose for themselves what they will, with exception to certain property rights (i.e. the house), without the use of force and persuade the child not to look at pornography while saturating them with God’s unconditional love that they may know a better way. That is how you win IMHO.

Comment on SEX: Wait for It… by Shelby Astle

Shelby Astle — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:23:47 +0000

So true Derek! Thanks for reading 🙂

Comment on SEX: Wait for It… by Derek

Derek — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:13:33 +0000

Like many things in life, God really knows what he is doing and has our (His children) best interest at heart. Kind of like you have to give to receive does not make logical sense but when we practice it and give service to others we receive more than what we give away. Thanks for sharing some really cool research!!

Comment on 5 Simple Ways to Absolutely Love Your Body by Leland Davies

Leland Davies — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:29:27 +0000

I like your article. It seems, self esteem is extremely important. Anything taken away from our esteem is mean. I give your article an A! (Another day, Another A!)