5 Ways Porn Will Hurt your Marriage

5 Ways Porn Will Hurt Your Marriage

If porn is involved in your marriage, you are not alone. Covenant Eyes reported in their most recent statistics (via MSNBC and a Stanford/Duquesne study): “In 2000, 25 million Americans spent 1 to 10 hours per week viewing Internet pornography, and as many as 4.7 million spent over 11 hours per week viewing Internet pornography.” Of those millions, I cannot imagine how many are married.

Here are 5 ways that pornography can hurt your marriage. I pray you take them to heart and know that none of us are immune to the affects.

#1: Porn Invites Comparison

#2: Porn Encourages Lies

#3: Porn Lowers Self-Worth

#4: Porn Robs Us of Intimacy

#5: Porn is Adultery

Perhaps the one of the most piercing passages of scriptures that cuts to the heart of the matter is Matthew 5:27-28; “You have heard it said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” The emphasis is not just on sight alone. To capture the real emphasis of the text and language we would conclude it is the continual looking lustfully at the opposite sex with the intent of engaging in mental sex!

To underscore the seriousness of the issue consider Christ’s more shocking statement in v.29; “If your 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.” If this passage of scripture was practically applied to the Covenant Eyes report mentioned then millions would be blind. The subtlety of Christ’s instruction is for all us to get real and get active in protecting our eye-gate and ultimately protecting our marriages and family.