Hi everyone, and welcome to a new serving of nut soup for the mind! I’m your host, QueenofSwords, and sometimes it seems as though there’s no idea too sensible for some fundamentalist to twist out of all proportion. But therapy for a certain addiction is now as obsolete as the theory of evolution; who needs rational recovery when you can self-flagellate yourself out of existence and replace the void with religion? Welcome to the the most intense Scorched Earth policy I have ever seen, because this week’s Nutwatch takes on
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Sexual addiction is an insidious cancer of the soul that has affected millions of Americans.
This carcinoma of the soul may be treated by massive overdoses of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Hey, maybe they could put out a new book : Chicken Soup for the Sex Addict’s Soul, complete with cartoons.
Pure Life Ministries began in 1986 as a conviction of Steve Gallagher to help those who have felt hopelessly trapped in this Satanic Darkness.
They are now hopelessly trapped in the Jesusic Light.
Since that time hundreds of men have found the freedom and help that they have been searching for. Many marriages, as well, have been restored as men and women turn to their only true source of help -- the power of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ (lifting a sword over his head) : By the power of Grayskull! I have the power! (He is then transformed into God-Man)
Helping those caught up in sexual perversions is not glamorous work.
Though it may appear that way on shows such as The Young and the Lustless, As the Flesh Burns and The Cold and the Dutiful.
Pure Life is a ministry that goes right in to the filthiest cesspools of human degradation and rescues those who see no way out.
The twelve-year-old child prostitutes in Thailand must be relieved to hear there are Americans more degraded than they are, thanks to the horrible sin of masturbation. But before Pure Life Ministries deals with that particular perversion, it confronts the most vile of Satanic desires,
It was during my time at PLM that I fell in love with Jesus for the first time.
Our eyes met during study hall, and he gave me a shy, boyish grin.
I had never been in a place where the total focus was on developing a relationship with Jesus.
Is it my imagination or has this poor man replaced a burning homosexual lust with, well, a burning homosexual lust, only this time a more religiously acceptable one?
He would come to me in my prayer times and show me the great need I had for Him.
This is like some kind of sexual initiation erotica – The Story of O My God.
He made it real to me that I would have to pay a price if I wanted to follow Him.
But when I paid that price, He flashed a badge and said, “Vice Squad. You’re under arrest.” My Jesus had become a Judas!
He would settle for nothing less than my whole life. For the first time that seemed like a small price to pay to have all of Him.
I’ll be serious for a moment and say that I don’t see how anyone, no matter how burning their passion for Jesus, could have “all of Him”. What does that mean – that they’ll get all His power? If they just loved Him hard enough, they might be able to raise the dead?
A big turning point for me came in one of my counseling sessions about 3 months into the live-in program. My counselor turned to me and said, "you hate God."
“But you love pizza. Why is this?”
This wasn't something he would normally say, but it was one of those God-inspired moments.
A God-inspired guilt trip? This could be a great excuse for other social gaffes : “The god made me do it!”
All I could do was stammer, "what?" He went on to say, "If you loved Him, you would not choose to sin." Suddenly it was real to me that God hates sin. I realized how important it was that I learned to hate sin, too.
OK, so now he hated sin and God? What is this, Fear and Loathing in Las Whackos?
My sexual sin began to fade in the light of Jesus and His passion to meet other people's needs through me.
“And my needs through other people. In other words, they are me, I am them, and we’re one great ant colony masquerading as human beings.”
When I was finally willing to give myself to the mercy and truth of Jesus, my mind was renewed.
Renewal fee : life, freedom and self-respect. In return for this one-time payment, your brain will be thoroughly washed, bleached, ironed and folded. Please recommend this service to all your friends.
Praise the Lord for Pure Life Ministries and how God used this place to renew a man who was bound for an eternity in hell.
I was waiting to read about how this poor guy developed a new desire for women – oops, make that a desire for his wife – but the story stops there. Hmm. Perhaps even the power of God doesn’t stretch that far, because the next testimoany also features a shattered marriage. Luckily, however, the patient in question fell in love with Jesus at the end, which made everything worthwhile, because as he puts it,
When I was about 3 – 4 years old I looked at a picture we had in our apartment and said to my mother, “What’s that picture mean?” The picture showed a city in flames sloping down into a pit of flames,
Ah, San Francisco.
and this cross, with spikes set in it, with a few people walking on it leading over the great gulf of flames to a sunny green land above and on the other side of the gulf and the bodies of the people in the city falling into it.
“They’re falling into the burning fires of hell,” said mommy. “Now, Junior, take a look at this picture of a girl who went on a date. See, m-o-r-g-u-e spells ‘morgue’.”
My mother explained the good news of the Gospel and I said, “I want to ask Jesus into my heart.”
Boy, just 3 – 4 years old and he already knew enough about the Gospel to make such an intelligent and reasoned choice.
Maybe 5 – 6 years later I looked at another picture. This one was found in a field in my neighborhood.
Maybe mommy planted it there, hoping for a beanstalk.
Alone, I found a picture of a woman naked from the waist up.
“And she was touching herself! Oh, sure, there was some writing under the picture about preventing some kind of cancer, but the horrible pornographic picture was all I saw!”
That began a lifelong struggle between what had been introduced to me through what I saw. One, a new life in Jesus, the other the cursed, evil attempt by the devil to destroy me.
Even now, Satan might be tiptoeing through fields in your neighborhood, dropping pictures of women naked from the waist up in order to entice your children! And to entice adults, he hands out candy!
My life from that point on consisted of pursuing God for a season, turning my back on Him and following the things of this world, with sex as the Siren centerpiece. As I grew to my teenage years, my lust for sex led me into all sorts of perversion. I was driven to explore all the foul pits the devil pointed me to.
This sounds either like spelunking into sewage dumps or having an underarm fetish.
Only by God’s unfathomable mercy did I not do more damage than what I did. So many people I used and abused and left discarded and damaged in my wake.
There’s a little icon of a sad face playing a violin, but for this guy, I’d use an entire symphony orchestra.
Always fantasizing, masturbating, visiting porn theaters, hiding magazines in the house…
So he turned into the Easter Bunny of adult entertainment?
My wife would take our children to church while I stayed home and indulged my burning desire for pornography… Each time I began slipping back into my old sinful habits and leaving off fellowship and following God, she groaned and grieved…
and groused and griped and grumbled. I know I might be pissed too if my husband was enjoying porn all by himself and not inviting me to join in.
For years she bore me and my sin. I put her through mental torture. She remains wounded and deeply scarred to this day.
Too bad she didn’t fall in love with Jesus too. Then she could also tell her husband that “all I lost was worth it”.
I sold my family down the river for my sin.
“And what do I hear for this fine American family? No, the wife doesn’t groan and grieve at all. Seven hundred? Sold to the gentleman over there!”
Yet I began to see something about the Lord that I had never imagined, that He only showed me the ugliness of who I was that He might replace it with Who He was.
A fundamentalist retelling of The Ugly Duckling : the duckling is assured that he will remain hideous for the rest of his life, but he is given the option of being eaten by an extremely attractive predator.
My relationship began to get more intimate and passionate with and for the Lord. Times spent with Him began to become so wonderful and fulfilling
I feel like a voyeur reading these testimonies, seriously. The terms in which they describe their deity-of-choice are so much more romantic than reverent; the addiction seems to be redirected rather than overcome. Thankfully at least one of the testimonies took a different tack, telling of how
I embraced secular humanism, believing that man had within himself basic goodness and the key to self-fulfillment; yet most of my colleagues seemed as broken in their personal lives as I felt in mine.
Being deeply familiar with the personal lives of all of his colleagues, this misguided man knew exactly how shattered they all were. He doesn’t seem to have investigated the secret of those few of his colleagues who were still intact, but no doubt they were all True Christians.
As a Christian, I knew my behavior was sinful, but as a psychologist, I always believed that if I could just get to the core of the psychological conflicts in my past, I would develop the insight necessary to resolve the emotional conflicts I experienced.
Ah, the foolishness of the Jung and naïve. I’m Freud this guy was in for a terrible shock.
Through the Live-In program at Pure Life, I recognized that the real core of my problem was not psychological; it was in my sin nature.
The sin nature had to be replaced by a nonsin nature with a smooth Teflon coating.
By learning to die to the flesh and live by the Spirit, I am finally experiencing victory over sexual sin. I see that denying myself, taking up my cross and following Jesus is a daily life-style I am called to live.
This is more like taking up one’s cross, nailing oneself to it, soaking the entire thing in gasoline and dropping a lighted match, but hey, anything to abolish sexual sin. So much for the Jewish faith and the entire field of psychotherapy; they were clearly useless in this case, just as they will be in stopping that perversion even children indulge in, the satanic activity called
Although masturbation isn't specifically addressed in Scripture, the Bible gives us principles for leading a pure and holy life that clearly point to the wrongness of it.
The greatest leaders of Israel may have slaughtered thousands of their enemies, but did they ever masturbate?
The first and most obvious reason that masturbation is wrong is because it goes against God's purpose for sex.
Never use a backboard when you play tennis because the game was clearly designed for two people. How could you be so selfish as to hit the balls only to yourself?
Although our society has perverted sex to the extent that it has become a self-centered act,
much like eating or sleeping, vile disgusting habits both. Seriously, though, was there any point in time when people practised sex solely for another person’s satisfaction?
God created it to be a function of marriage. There is no room for sex outside of marriage.
If masturbation is equal to sex, is solitaire equal to poker?
Worldly minded teachers tell us though, that we have pent-up desires that must be "relieved”. What they don't realize is that sex is a desire that God gave us; not a need. People who have learned to walk in the Spirit, have been overcoming these desires for thousands of years.
I wonder why God would give people a desire so dangerous that it needs to be squashed firmly until marriage. Isn’t that a little like making your child drink three cups of coffee and then insisting that he wait until you get home?
Another reason we know that masturbation is wrong is because it is another form of self-gratification. Throughout Scripture self-gratification is denounced. Over and over again we are told how important it is that we don't allow the flesh to dominate our thinking or our actions.
One instant of self-pleasure and you’ll be a slave to it your whole life long, apparently. You’ll no longer be master of your domain, and God won’t have access to it either, which is worse!
It is virtually impossible to masturbate without fantasizing. What would a person think about who is trying to achieve orgasm if not sex with some person?
Sex with several persons.
Not meaning to be flippant -- but could you imagine thinking about fixing the refrigerator while masturbating?
Meaning to be flippant – could you imagine fixing the refrigerator while masturbating? Assuming that you could accomplish the repair one-handed, that is. On the plus side, you could always reach for a snack or even a phallic-object vegetable, further evidence that fixing the refrigerator is just plain evil.
The habit of masturbation sets in motion a mentality of giving in to the demands of the flesh that is often carried on into other sins. The person literally gets "in the habit" of caving in to every carnal temptation and desire.
The person then ends up as a fat gay alcoholic sex addict, of which there are literally millions in the world.
As the person fills his mind with fantasies of having sex with other people, he is deepening the carnal thought that the worth of women is to be found in their sexuality.
This is, of course, assuming that the person in question is heterosexual, somehow generalizes his fantasy to include all women and draws conclusions about an entire gender based on his imagination. I think he has more problems than just self-pleasure.
This thinking process leads the person deeper and deeper into sin.
Yes, one day you’ll be spanking the monkey, the next day you’ll be shooting the president!
Another biblical reason why masturbation is wrong is the way that it masters people… Christians should not be controlled by anything, except a love for Christ… Masturbation is a dominating habit that tends to control the person.
Extensive studies conducted by Pure Life Ministries have shown that even after an episode of disgusting masturbation, ninety-nine out of a hundred people may masturbate again only days later! Well, that just says it all.
Masturbation is nothing short of lust-filled self-gratification. It is the epitome of self-centeredness and is wrong for the Christian.
The Christian would only have sex in order to please someone else or to make a Christian baby. Since only the Christian can feel his or her own orgasm, this self-centered experience is to be avoided at all costs.
Most children have a natural curiosity about their own sexuality. Exploring oneself is a normal part of growing up. The best thing a parent can do about this is to patiently watch to see if it develops into a real problem.
Patiently watch the child’s underwear, patiently watch the child’s bedroom at night and the sheets in the morning, patiently watch him or her in the bathroom, and patiently explain all this to Social Services.
If a young person seems to be developing a habit of masturbation, it would be best to have a talk with them about it.
“Son, you seem to be hopelessly trapped in Satanic Darkness.”
It's important that you don't condemn them for their behavior. This is actually a great opportunity to show him your friendship. Have a friend to friend talk with him about it.
Be sure to ask him about his technique. You might pick up some pointers. But even if you’ve managed to drive this loathsome habit out of your children, don’t worry, there’s plenty more fresh meat out there, and you’ll find it at the
It's time to deal with the toughest battle men face: living in sexual purity. End the silence; go on the offensive and rescue your men!
Then storm the beach at Normandy! And remember the Alamo!
The following are some of the issues that will be addressed during the “Men of Purity” Weekend: Lust, Masturbation, Temptation, Porn & Cyber-porn, Heart Adultery…
As opposed to Kidney Lust? But for those unable to attend the “Men of Purity” Weekend, fear not; there’s plenty more on the website to meet and destroy all your sexual needs. Besides their other innumerable ventures, Pure Life Ministries also features a magazine called Unchained, where grateful wives can write in to say how happy they are now that they have surrendered every iota of self-esteem they might originally have possessed.
The study The Walk of Repentance showed me myself in the mirror of God’s Word. What I saw was sin and ugliness until God stepped in and forgave me and put on me a white, white robe. My husband and I are sinners but Oh, Praise our Lord, we know a Savior who loves sinners.
The Savior’s love seems proportional to how bad you’ve been – the lower you are, the better he likes you. God of the gutters, that’s him. But there’s a level of filth that even the white, white robe might not be able to amend, and that abyss of perversion is described in the article
Which is maybe even worse than the Gay Lifestyle with its Burning Homosexual Lust. Hefner, we are told, used his ill-gotten gains to further spread the filth of sexual impropriety.
One of the first beneficiaries of his would be the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)… this organization is largely responsible for the sex education that plagues our school systems today.
So let me get this straight… masturbation is wrong, sex ed is wrong, and presumably all forms of pornography are worse than wrong. How is anyone supposed to find out about sex? And how long (after the wedding, of course) does it take to learn what you enjoy, let alone what your partner likes?
Hugh Hefner is 76-years old now.
Will Pure Life Ministries be sending him a birthday card?
No doubt he looks over the past 50 years with a real sense of accomplishment. He has probably been sexually involved with thousands of women....
In other words, he’s a modern-day King Solomon.
His magazine is one of the most successful periodicals ever published. Indeed, he has helped shape America into what it is today.
Soon he will die and face his Maker.
And great rejoicing shall fill the land. I’m just disappointed that this Nutwatch is too early to catch the next issue of Unchained, which will feature the entertaining article
Special 14-Part Report: Part Five—The Hidden Agenda Behind Sex Education
I wonder what this hidden agenda is – probably world domination or at least the rise of the antichrist. Sexual addiction might be a real problem that places a great deal of stress on people and marriages, but this is hardly the way to tackle it. Pure Life Ministries remind me of an exterminator who would nuke the Statue of Liberty in order to dispose of a rat. Their entire creed consists of vicious self-denigration coupled with such passionate declarations of intimacy with Jesus that I think they should rename their magazine, and call it Playgod.
Till next week, everyone!
QueenofSwords