Lust: Why Perverted, Kinky, and Sadistic

I explained in a previous post how pornography, erotica, and masturbation can never really satisfy. I also explained how such activities can stir an internal frustration within people that can spill over into the real world and create many unforeseen consequences.  One of these consequences involves inflaming the desires of the very participant themselves.   The more a fire is stoked, the hotter it burns.
  The more you walk from God, the stronger your lust grows.  Because the activity leaves the subject empty, dissatisfied, and aggravated, people resort to ever increasing levels of promiscuity and ever exaggerated behaviors in an attempt to get their fix.  The more you indulge in it, the more you will be given over to it.   They never really stop this because they are never really satisfied by any of it.  They become trapped in a sort of vicious cycle.  Things initially considered twisted and vile all of sudden become acceptable and even desirable.  Before you tell yourself, ‘I would never do that!’ or ‘I am above all that.” Consider the Scriptural passage below.

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to his vomit and a sow having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.” II Peter 2:22

If you think about what this scripture really means it refers to the desensitization and escalation of lust.   Those things that would initially make you throw up, all of sudden look yummy to you. Is this not the same for men who indulge in pornography?  They start off with a little soft porn, a little nudity and sex.  In their browsing, they come across some of the more hard core stuff. They are initially appalled by it and put it away.  In time, they take a second look and come to crave that sick stuff and begin to dream of acting some of it out.  The process I am describing is how pornography turns men into monsters.   Like sows, a woman in heat from lust will root and wallow in any muck to satiate their greed, quench their heat, and rub their itch.  No one ever starts out behaving like this and it does not necessarily happen overnight.  The transition always follows a gradual process of desensitization and escalation.  If people persist in letting their lusts fester and do not keep away from this stuff as God instructs, they too will follow down the same path.  If we think of ourselves as somehow above this whole process, we may in fact be all the more vulnerable.  We are told in Scripture to flee youthful lusts for a reason.  I advise everyone to quit this stuff while they are ahead.

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