Life as a Christian Woman

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!

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