So this is a really late backblast…we did some ruck stuff trying to focus on teamwork but it was an afterthought to this topic

The subject matter has sparked a bunch of side conversations, and hopefully, men realize we realize that we all have the same weaknesses and we will only get better when we can lock shields and truly walk with each other

My topic was lust…

Lust for money, power, a woman…or naked women…we could only have lust for women that day

The Bible is clear on how to handle lust…

Matthew 5:27-30 English Standard Version (ESV)

Lust

²⁷ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’²⁸ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

We discussed on how porn feeds our lust…and the statistics are frightening:

Stats on porn – and is this where all the lust comes from?

11 Porn Industry Stats That Really Need To Change:

1. Porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon, & Twitter combined each month. (HuffPost)
2. 35% of all internet downloads are porn-related. (WebRoot)
3. 34% of internet users have been exposed to unwanted porn via ads, pop-ups, etc. (WebRoot)
4. Porn increased marital infidelity by 300%. (WebRoot)
5. At least 30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn-related. (HuffPost)
6. The most common female role in porn is women in their 20’s portraying teenagers. (Jon Millward.) (In 2013, Millward conducted the largest personal research study on the Porn Industry in the U.S. He interviewed 10,000 porn stars about various aspects of the business.)
7. Recorded child sexual exploitation (known as “child porn”) is one of the fastest-growing online businesses. (IWF)
8. 624,000+ child porn traders have been discovered online in the U.S. (Innocent Justice)
9. Child porn is a $3 billion industry. (TopTenReviews)
10. Porn is a global, estimated $97 billion industry, with about $12 billion of that coming from the U.S. (NBC News)  
11. In 2016 alone, more than 4,599,000,000 hours of porn were watched on the world’s largest porn site. (PH Analytics)
12. Eleven pornography sites are among the world’s top 300 most popular Internet sites. The most popular such site, at number 18, outranks the likes of eBay, MSN, and Netflix. (SimilarWeb)

Viewing Stats That Are Hard To Believe (from NCOSE):

13. 64% of young people, ages 13–24, actively seek out pornography weekly or more often. [1]
14. Teenage girls and young women are significantly more likely to actively seek out porn than women 25 years old and above. [2]
15. A study of 14- to 19-year-olds found that females who watched pornographic videos were at a significantly greater likelihood of being victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault. [3]
16. A Swedish study of 18-year-old males found that frequent users of pornography were significantly more likely to have sold and bought sex than other boys of the same age. [4]
17. A 2015 meta-analysis of 22 studies from seven countries found that internationally the consumption of pornography was significantly associated with increases in verbal and physical aggression, among males and females alike. [5]
18. A recent UK survey found that 44% of males aged 11–16 who viewed pornography reported that online pornography gave them ideas about the type of sex they wanted to try. [6]

Amazing that @F3TheFort has this many men in our group and nobody struggles with porn? what is too much? once a year? once a month? once a week? once a day? once an hour?

If you are struggling find a man to hold you accountable…we owe it to each other and each other’s families

The conversation will continue…