Ultimately, you must go on the journey of exploring your own life and ask, Where have I been wounded and how do those wounds affect me today? Confront Denial You can go to a group and talk about struggles with work or alcohol, but when you say you struggle with sexual issues, it clears the room.
We feel the need to hide our sexual struggles, so we learn to hide from and deceive even ourselves.
Minimum-wage service jobs, or factory work, or police work, or military service—those things don't involve having sex onscreen, obviously, but they're all arguably degrading, depressing, and potentially dangerous or traumatizing.
I took a year away from ministry to focus on restoration.
The father summons each girl in military fashion to take their punishment and whips them mercilessly.
Porn in this case didn't isolate her; quite the contrary.