Real Stories : Porn
If either you or a loved one has become addicted to pornography, there is help available. You DO NOT have to continue in slavery to pornography! Some of the helps listed here are counseling services, accountability and content monitoring software services or self-help books. The best recommendation is come clean with someone you trust and enlist them as an accountability partner. The power of addictive sins is in keeping it secret. Once a sin is out in the full light, its power is diminished! Don't let shame control you and don't believe that you are the only person with this issue. Pornography is as addictive as alcohol, drugs and nicotine. It causes actual changes to brain chemicals in the same way that cocaine does. It will not stop by itself. Just like addictive substances, you will need more and harder porn to keep the brain chemicals at the same level. You need help today.
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Accountability Software or Content Monitoring Software or Filtered Internet Service
Covenant Eyes - this is not a filter. This software is designed for you to have an accountability partner of your choosing. It tracks every web visit and sends the information to your accountability partner. It cannot be bypassed. I could not find out whether the program can also track chat rooms and web-based email (people can receive pornography by email as well as look at websites).
X3Watch - This software keeps a list of questionable sites and tracks your web browsing. Once per month, an accountability partner of your choosing receives a report of any questionable sites you may have accessed. The information is not stored by the software maker and will be seen only by the accountability partner. The software is free.
Safe Browse & Safe Eyes: Filtered internet browsing, monitoring controls, search engine filtering, instant reports, time controls. Recommended by Setting Captives Free.
Various Content Monitoring Solutions:
Cyber Snoop from Pearl Software: they also have a version that can be used with AOL
CYBERsitter: Records all Instant Messenger chat conversations for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN, and Yahoo Messengers. Now you can know who your kids are chatting with to ensure that they are not communicating with strangers. Provides over 30 categories of filtering making it the most complete Internet filter available. Filters are updated automatically, and there are no subscription charges. A sophisticated "content recognition" system recognizes and blocks new objectionable web sites even before they know about them. Allows parents to override blocked sites, add their own sites to block, specify allowable times to access the Internet, and maintains a detailed log of all Internet activity and violations. It will even send a daily report to parents by e-mail. No fees - one time only purchase charge.
Safe Eyes: see description in section above.
Self Help And Information
ARTICLE: How to Protect Your Kids Online
Be Broken Ministries - Info on helping friends or family caught up into any kind of sexual addictions. The founder is available for seminars in churches. Counselor referral service is available.
Breaking Pornography Addiction - A Plan For Personal Success. Recommends books, accountability and Covenant Eyes software.
Fires of Darkness - A Ministry for Pornography Addicts and The People Who Love Them. Resources for parents and wives of addicts. This is some of the best material on the internet because the people who have written it know about pornography addiction FIRST-HAND.
Institute For Sexual Integrity. Helpful information for Pastors, Churches, Parents, and Therapists about porn/sexual addictions and ways to recognize these addictions.
Pure Intimacy - Addressing Online Sexual Temptation. Resources for the addict and their family members. Site created by Focus On The Family.
Setting Captives Free. Includes 60 day Pure Freedom Course and Purity Force Challenge for teens.
Winning Edge Ministries - dedicated to restoring fallen pastors and religious leaders.
New Life Partners - a support group for women whose husbands are pornography/sexual addicts.
Pure Online: Confidential help with porn addiction.
Counseling Centers:
Heart-To-Heart Counseling Center, Colorado Springs, CO
