By Dann Aungst So, you’ve made the courageous commitment to stop looking at porn. Congratulations! A very commendable and healthy life change. However, reality hits. You find that just because you made a commitment, that it doesn’t necessarily equal success. In fact, you may even find that you are looking at porn more than ever! […]
by Dann Aungst – Road to Purity While some form of pornography has been around since the beginning of time, any significant change didn’t happen until the introduction of Playboy magazine in 1953 and shortly followed by the sexual revolution in the 1960’s. A short few decades later with the internet and connection speeds that […]
by Dann Aungst – Road to Purity. Ever since the introduction of the smart phone and high-speed internet the pornography industry has exploded exponentially. Today one major porn supplier reports 120-160 million users on a daily basis. Estimates of all sources of internet pornography combined suggest a daily internet user base at over 300 million. […]
By Dann Aungst/Road to Purity As the president and founder of Road to Purity, I spend a significant amount of time researching the effects, the societal behaviors and the spiritual depths of sexual behavior. This study also leads me to see the extensive spiritual and emotional disorders that we all have. Disorders that the vast […]
by Dann Aungst – Founder of Road to Purity If it’s one thing addicts know, porn addicts in particular (since that’s what Road to Purity specializes in), being faced with seemingly hopeless and uncontrollable situations are not unknown territory. As addicts, we can use our recovery practices to help us in facing extremely uncertain times […]
I have heard both first-hand and second-hand statements from countless women who ask themselves what they could have done differently so their husbands wouldn’t look at porn. They even blame themselves when their husband has an affair or is caught seeing prostitutes. “Should I have given him more sex?”, “Did I love him enough?”, “Should […]
by Dann Aungst My name is Dann Aungst and I am a recovering sex addict. And yes, I do use the word “addict” rather than compulsion or even habit. I believe as an addict, a person is out of control. Someone or some outside force is required to get a person to realize that they […]
by Dann Aungst You’re probably thinking is it ever possible to earn her trust again? Especially after she said “how can I ever trust you again?! ” Well, I’ll tell you it is possible. But, and it is a big “but”, it’s solely depends on you. I have to be honest with you, no smoke […]
Let’s admit it. It seems everything we hear about pornography is how unethical and how immoral it is. How consuming porn is a sin and we’re all going to hell for it. How looking at sex on the internet, nude women in magazines or even sexually explicit movies is bad. So many say this is […]