Sun, Mar. 31
... What makes it worth it?
Porn is one of the most degrading things in the world, I think. I see the effects of it on my friends--both guys and girls--and I see how devastating it can be.
Not only is it degrading to the women who are in it, but it's degrading to women as a whole, and it desensitizes guys to having healthy, real relationships.
I look at girls I know, myself included, who have found out that guys close to them--brothers, boyfriends, friends, whatever--are using porn, and I see how devastated we are. I see how much we hurt for the guys in our lives that we love. I see how hurt we feel. I see how we hurt for that something that's lost in our relationship with them. I see how we long for that to be there again. I see how we can't trust them anymore. I see how we feel degraded, inhuman, and objectified, and I wonder what makes it worth all that.
I see the guys' respect for women diminish. I see their level of trust in themselves and each other drop. I see them hurt as they realize how much they hurt us. I see them hurt at the realization that they've not only hurt themselves and us, but God as well. I see the way they degress into more and more, and the way that they don't view relationships as being healthy anymore. I see them become addicted and find it harder and harder to stop. I see the way the sanctity of marriage and the specialness of sex is ignored, and I wonder why it's worth it.
Is making life so much more difficult in the long run really worth jacking off for a few minutes and seeing images that will forever be implanted in the soul?
And I'm not saying that girls are perfect. I'm not saying that we don't hurt and degrade relationships in our own way. But from a girl's perspective, I see the way guys use porn as one of the worst things for relationships. One of the worst things for guys. One of the worst things for girls.
And really, what makes it all worth it?
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posted at 11:59 a.m.
