Porn Use Found to Double the Rate of Divorce
Porn has devastated relationships of types, and marriage is no exception. Married men that started watching porn within 2 years had a 2x chance of divorce. That number triples for women. This may be because porn affects women differently than men, but it negatively impacts all users. Here we’ll go over why and the effects of porn on marriage.
The Impacts of Pornography Use on Marriage
In today’s digital age, pornography has become instantly accessible. The powerful dopamine of sex within a few taps of a screen has made the effects pervasive throughout all society. Even 60 years ago, it was much harder to acquire pornographic materials, most being through the form of magazines or hidden erotic theater.
Distorted Intimacy
Intimacy is nearly always warped by porn use. Pornographic users see the actors in the media they watch as what they want sexually and sometimes even emotionally. Very often in porn films people are shown with very rare body types or are shown displaying sexual acts in an exaggerated or unrealistic way.
This often bleeds over into how someone may want these unrealistic fantasies from their spouse. The use of pornography is often hidden from one partner to another, and in order to be truly intimate with a spouse you have to be open and honest about everything.
A spouse that finds out their partner has been viewing porn behind their back will often feel devastated, insecure and inadequate. A healthy relationship involves having sexual intimacy satisfied between two people, and looking for outward sources can have a ruinous impact.
Reduced Contact
Porn use is known to wreak havoc with sex drives. Heavy porn use is known to cause erectile dysfunction, and a need to explore more darker pornographic categories to satisfy lust. Instead of pursuing your partner to fulfill each other’s needs, porn can easily make you chase it instead.
Not only does porn use affect your contact with your spouse, but it will also affect your relationship with God. Porn can drive a wedge between your prayer life and God and help facilitate unnecessary spiritual warfare.
Married life is busy enough with jobs, responsibilities, and kids, and spouses should take plenty of opportunities to express intimacy with each other, not just sexually though that is part of it, and especially without pornography to damage that trust and intimacy.