Site Meter Life as a Christian Woman » Blog Archive » Pornography and Christian Parenting

Pornography and Christian Parenting

by

Well, it has been a rough couple of weeks as you can probably tell by the drop in the frequency of posts here. My shoulder is still giving me problems, and I just had an MRI done today. It will be another couple of weeks before I find out what the treatment is going to be or exactly what is wrong with it. Thank you for bearing with me through this painful time. Some wonderful people have come forward to write guest posts for both this site and my other at Her Daily News. Over on that blog, Beth from Astrology Explored has been sharing her extensive experience in the corporate world with a series of posts on handling problems and issues that come up in the work place. Please visit and read her posts, and leave her a “thank you” comment for helping me out this week.

While I have been spending much less time on the computer, my spam comments began to pile up for this site. I finally started going through them the other day to make sure a legitimate comment had not been blocked. I must say I am appalled. Probably 98% of the comments stopped by the Akismet spam filter are pornographic in nature. It made me wonder, with the easy access to porn now through the Internet, when do we teach our children, and especially our sons, about it?

The “sex talk” and a talk about pornography are, to me, two separate issues. In the sex talk, I believe we should teach our children about the basics and the biology, but also about God’s intended plan. Our children should be taught that in the sanctity of marriage, sexual relations with our spouses are a blessing from God that join a man and a woman physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Sex is not a bad thing, and our children need to know that marital sex is a healthy part of a marriage.

But what about pornography? It is an invasive, demeaning and repulsive view of sex that is as far from God’s purpose as one can possibly get. Pornographic material teaches abuse of the human body (the Lord’s temple). In my mind, it is a blatant in-your-face defiance of God and of Christian love. But Christians get addicted to it just as does the secular world. There is some sort of appeal that I don’t understand but that grips men especially, and young men in particular. So how can we attempt to guard against it? Ignoring it is certainly not the answer. Our children will see pornographic material at some point.

I would really like your input on this subject. Have you taught your children about porn, or do you plan to? At what age do you think is appropriate to broach the subject? How did you, or intend to, get the point across of the dangers and blatant sin of pornography? Maybe if we discuss the subject here, together we can come up with a plan to save our children from one of the worst, and one of the least understood, wordly addictions. Unfortunately, because I have used the word “pornography” in this post, my spam filter is now going to be working overtime!

[tags]christian parenting, christians and sex, christian and pornography, parenting, religion[/tag]


4 Responses to “Pornography and Christian Parenting”

  1. Amrita Says:

    Porn is the road to lust and fantasy which urges the soul to make it reality and leads to sin.Its the Devil ’s ignition key to the moral downfall of a person. And people who produce pornographic work or enjoy it demean their bodies and minds thinking it will satisfy them, but it never does.

  2. Mental & Emotional Health » Blog Archive » Time Management Says:

    [...] and still have plenty of time. Learning about 451Press’ new payout schedule today (fellow 451 writers, isn’t it [...]

  3. Get Incensed » Blog Archive » Let’s Talk About Sex, Baba Says:

    [...] with another historic first. This weekend, Johannesburg hosted the “first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative Christians and still home to many sexual [...]

  4. health east plan keystone doctors Says:

    plan east direct keystone health east point keystone plan health

Leave a Reply


About Life as a Christian Woman

Life as a Christian Woman explores Biblical truths as they apply to modern faith and the vital roles we can play in the body of Christ. Some topics are easy, such as Christ died for our sins. Others, like divorce, single parenthood, work, and submission to our spouses are more challenging. Then there are days we just need a good laugh with God. Together, we can learn practical faith in an impractical world.

Life as a Christian Woman Author(s)

Blogging Flair

Search:
Christianbook.com


Christian Women Online
Blog Ring

Join | List | Random


www.reverendfun.com/

Christian Top Sites
Christian Top Sites


Christianity Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory

Philosophy & Religion Channel Posts

  • Is Karma Real?
    I've been exposed to a number of differing versions of the karma story. Some say it is about a life balancing thing – live a bad life now and you pay for it later. For others it can be almost [...]
  • Is it the Matrix?
    Imagine The Matrix world - what if the computer simulation already had characters running around, operating according to basic programming. Neo wants to join the game, so the computer 'models' him [...]
  • Spirituality
    If there is one subject that generates an amazing amount of dialogue, discussion and argument without ever apparently reaching a conclusion, it would be Spirituality. Not only do people disagree [...]
  • Weekly Forecast: A Very Hot Ticket
    February 20 to February 27 [caption id="attachment_2126" align="alignleft" width="333" caption="Love's a Hot Ticket"][/caption]This week a very spicy Venus in Aries makes friendly energetic [...]
  • Speechless... and loved.
    Sometimes life leaves you speechless. About a week ago, a friend I hadn't spoken with in nearly 15 years found me on Facebook. For those of you that don't know, Facebook is called a "social [...]
  • Fields of Life?
    From Kirlian auras, through to electric fields, people have attempted to show that, if we are not just bodies living in a purely physical realm, our ‘spirit’ can be measured or shown to have [...]
  • The Astrology of The Tragic Story of Travis the Chimp
    February 19, 2009 [caption id="attachment_2119" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Travis the Chimp"][/caption]In a story that is sad and tragic for all parties concerned, a fourteen year old, [...]
  • Love and Hate
    I think maybe 'lack of self awareness' creates automatisms - when one is at all self-aware, there is little that is automatic. When one isn't, almost everything is automatic. Lack of knowledge limits [...]
  • This Little Light of Mine
    14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in [...]
  • Apathy
    I was in a discussion recently about Apathy. A person was saying that because of trauma, they were deep in apathy for a good part of the past few years. That raised my interest – I don't know if [...]

Hot Off The Press