I am not addicted to pornography, but I am distracted to lust after handsome (can't I say "hot"?) men. I am one of those women who have found myself struggling with lust. Lust is the desire to have sex with someone you have not married ( Matthew 5:27-29, looking on another human with a desire to commit adultery with them in your mind). Feeling that magnetic pull of interest and amazement is not the same as imaginatively stripping someone naked and wanting them in bed. Lust, according to Jesus, is not merely noticing or feeling attracted to another man (or woman's) body. Several years ago, when I read " The Naked Truth about Women's Lust," I felt, for the first time, like someone was finally talking about what I have experienced. Still skeptical? Just notice the posters on tween's bedroom walls or the way they gush over Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers, not simply their music, but their bodies. Crystal Renaud, founder of Dirty Girls Ministries (DGM) shared in a New York Times interview last May on her own porn addiction, at age 10. Women's attraction to the male body is a widely experienced but little publicized reality. But, 1 of 3 visitors to all adult websites are women. The internet filter review from documents 70 percent of women keep their cyber activities secret. That's why men talk about struggles with porn and women don't. That's why Playboy sells more than Playgirl. Okay, you might say, but once the honeymoon is over and you've got kids and sleep deprivation? No woman sustains this kind of attraction to sex, not longterm. In his shade I took great delight and sat down,Īnd his fruit was sweet to my taste (1:3). Or ask the bride in Song of Solomon: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, 133).Ī man's body can turn a woman on … ask any woman about how she feels in Abercrombie and Fitch stores. Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn explain in For Men Only, "Your Body (no matter how much of a stud you are) does not by itself turn on her body" (P. "Women give sex to get love" ( Every Woman's Battle). In our Christian subculture men are the visually stimulated, carnal ones. Men, the celibate priests taught, were the naturally spiritual and rational ones. Can you imagine that? Women were the horny ones. In the Middle Ages, priests informed the laity that women were naturally more lustful, insatiable, and visually stimulated. Five hundred years ago, these words could have been uttered by a priest. His opinion is not an anomaly, though it may strike you as odd. Sexual abuse found them early and turned them into women who seem to be all "sex and devil-may-care" ( Butterfield 8).īut sexually abused women are not the only ones who end up interested in sex.Ī long-time playboy and artist of Laguna Beach once calmly told me, "Women are just as sexually dominant as men," he paused, "Maybe even more." Her story is precisely what I've heard on the road from girls as young as 12. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her role as the sexually abused and sexually addicted call girl that falls in love. I watched Butterfield 8 with my husband last weekend.
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