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This article deals with different levels of addition to pornography, and many helps to overcome it. I have posted articles about avoiding pornography before. I have been a victim or seeing some pornography untentionally.  I remember when some of my sons were teenagers many years ago, and they would find a magazine with bad pictures, they would bring it to me, and we would either burn it or put it in the trash.  I can't remember details, but I remember how thankful I was that they would bring something to me, and not keep it.  This is a very perceptive article by Elder Dallin H. Oakes. LDS.ORG MAGAZINES ENSIGN   OCTOBER 2015 RECOVERING FROM THE TRAP OF PORNOGRAPHY By Elder Dallin H. Oaks Recovering from the Trap of Pornography Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles All of us must learn to respond appropriately to media with sexual content. Illustration by domi8nic/iStock/Thinkstock A decade ago I spoke in general confe...

I ran across a couple of interesting articles on LDS Living this morning.  The first is helping those with financial needs when we suspect we will only be supporting unwise spending habits and unhealthy addictions.   I like his ideas. The second article is about:   Why does public opinion judge petty offenses like littering more harshly than pornography consumption?   Dave Says: How to Help the Right Way How can we help those with financial need when we suspect we will only be supporting unwise spending habits and unhealthy addictions? Dave Ramsey has this great advice to give. Dear Dave, My wife and I have a friend we met through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. She has a 1-year-old child, and she recently asked us for some money. We don't really approve of how she's choosing to spend her money--she's spending a lot of it on alcohol and cigarettes--but she does need financial help. What should we do? Mike Dear Mike, I have a v...