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For those who have children or teens living in your home, this article from LDS Living is most helpful.    There are many links to help you keep the poison of pornography from your home, and your children. At this time we have no children or teen-agers living in our home.  For you who do, I hope this helps you!  13 Ways Pornography Leaks into Your Home (and How to Stop It) by Collin Bishop  | Jan. 01, 2018 Makes You Think A few weeks ago, my wife and I took our two young kids to a neighborhood party. When we arrived, we scouted the food, grabbed something tasty, and made our way over to a couple of neighbors we recognized from the ward. After talking for a while, somehow the conversation turned to our kids and the schools in our area. Since our son is getting ready to enter the public education system, we discussed local preschools, favorite teachers, and the general atmosphere at the elementary school. And that's ...

This gives us new thoughts as to what we allow our eyes to see.  Good thoughts! I Made a Covenant with Mine Eyes By Ted Gibbons  · January 5, 2016 No Wicked Thing “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes . . . it shall not cleave to me” (Psalms 101:3). I found this verse one day as I read and pondered the book of Psalms. I read it again and again while I reflected on the young men and women I work with in my church calling who are struggling with the curse of pornography. David wrote Psalm 101, almost certainly in the years after his encounter with Bathsheba, when a walk on the roof and an inadvertent glance allowed his eyes to rest and remain where they ought not to have rested. David’s Eyes and Job’s Eyes David knew as well as anyone the consuming calamity that can come when we settle our eyes in places that can nurture wickedness. He wrote of his resolve as he looked back through the magnifying lens of experience, “I will set no wicke...

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...