Do you have a sex addiction?
Video: "Are you addicted?" by Craig Gross
Craig Gross
This video clip is taken from Chapter 1 from the Pure Online - Singles Edition Workshops
There are good addiction tests all over the web that can help you determine if you have unhealthy sexual behavior. We are not going to attempt to reproduce those here, but will offer this simple definition and challenge:
If your life is being controlled by your sexual desires and activities, instead of YOU being in control of them, then you have a sex addiction and should consider getting help.
Here are a few questions you can ask yourself about the symptoms of sex addiction and its stages:
Every Christian man and woman is in one of these three groups:
Every Christian man is "targeted" by Satan. Just like every young man is a target for cigarette ads, because every young man is a potential smoker, so too, every Christian man is succeptable to sexual sin. Your walk with God, your faith, your ability to lead a church, your ability to be a strong husband and father, your ability to be a man of honor, are all under attack by sexual sin. If you are not "Tempted" or in the "Trenches" (see below) beware that you are not moving in that direction.
Men in the "Tempted" group are men who are already seeing sexual sin or sexual temptation impact their life in some way,
have recognized that it could be a significant problem if not dealt with, and/or have recognized a propensity to
struggle with lust or sexual compulsivity.
Most men fit into this group. Most men are somewhat regularly hit with sexualized messages (TV, magazine stand, movies)
and often are exposed to pornography without their consent (SPAM, etc.). If sexual temptation is dealt with, is out in
the open (via accountability relationships, etc.) then often it can remain just that, a temptation. But in many cases,
just as our bodies, if left alone, will naturally decay--i.e., our bodies, on their own, don't get "fit"--so too,
your sexual purity will naturally decline without specific work to stay pure and move towards Christ.
Men in the "Trenches" are men whose lives are in some large part, being controlled by sexual sin. This could be in the form of Internet pornography, an extra-marital affair, or other behavior. Maybe at one point, the problem was limited to the occasional viewing of a pornographic email or quickly viewing an inappropriate banner ad--but has now escalated into hours of pornography consumption per day. Being in the "trenches", is by our definition synonymous with addiction. Other common symptoms of sexual addiction include behaviors that have caused or could cause legal, employment, or financial damage (seeing a prostitute, looking at pornography on the job, and using your family savings for online pornography are all examples of this).
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