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"Oh, heavens no, Tom! I didn't ask him for his prayers for him; I asked for me. I asked him because I think that anyone who has gone through challenges like that must be very close to God. I asked him because I wanted his intercession."

One of the most chilling things I’ve read this week.

But pornography is not the enemy. Shame is the enemy. Shame is fear, personalized: If they knew this about me, they would reject me. Fear feeds shame, and shame feeds pornography.

You don’t have any way of understanding if what you’re watching is what healthy sexual relationships are really like or if it’s the sexual equivalent of a Mini Cooper racing through a subway station. Ideally, our culture would help you gain that perspective, but porn makes us so uncomfortable we end up making it harder, not easier, for you to understand.

But when they apply the label “pornography” to anything that excites any person, we give up the ability to talk about it in a meaningful way. If your youth group leader thinks bare shoulders and bikinis at the beach are pornographic, you’re going to get confused.