"Sex, lust, porn addictions are legit, true, real addictions. Addictions are diseases. That is the connection between cancer and pornography addiction. A disease is something that can't just be willed away. Also, most often, although not in all cases, but most often there are underlying issues and concerns for those who have a sex, lust, porn addiction and the porn, sex, and lust are just manifestations of something else going on in that person's life.
My whole point in my post was to make you aware of the fact that porn, sex, lust issues that many struggle with are in fact addictions and addictions are in fact diseases. You seem to deny that this is the case, so then you are prone to treat the problem as if it were just a matter of people being vile sinners or as if they can just will themselves to stop. Your perspective is common, but it ignores the reality. Look, I'm not an expert, a doctor, or a psychologist, but I have been through treatment myself, I am an ARP facilitator helping those who struggle with addictions of all sorts, and I have plenty of experience working with psychologist and other mental health professionals as I've worked through my own issues, addictions, etc. This process has educated me and I am intimately familiar with what is actually going on and how porn, sex, lust affect the body, the mind, and the spirit. Alcoholism and sex/lust/porn addictions are very much in the same class and addictions are diseases and therefore they are in the same class as other diseases. I wrote what I wrote so that you and others can be aware of this connection so that you can start dealing with this issue from the correct perspective. Otherwise, your views and perspectives will be biased and missing the mark and being punitive and vengeful is NOT helpful or even something that will make a difference for the good to anyone. The Church's ARP program is centered on Christ and His atonement. I know from experience that the principles taught in ARP are good and true and they work. Thousands of others know this as well. Educate yourself and take time to attend a few ARP sessions. By the way, those meetings are not just for people suffering from substance abuse or porn addictions, this program is intended for anyone who has a weakness and continues to struggle with a weakness year after year. Someone once called it the Advance Repentance Program, because it truly is that"
I guess we will have to agree to disagree..
I do not believe that it is an incorrect perspective at all nor do I believe it is even in the slightest way a disease at all... Put a cancer patient in the same room as a porn addict and see how long they get along together.. two completely different worlds... The cancer patient is trying to overcome a physical disease and is not a sinner , whereas the porn addict is a sinner that needs to repent... I'll even take it further, to take sin and whitewash it by twisting it into a "disease" and to put it on the same plane as physical diseases is doing a disservice to the sinner ... It is calling white black and black white or good evil and evil good...
or as Isaiah says:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Or how about what this same Savior says :
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
And you call that a disease? I call that sin that needs to be swiftly repented of or else we shall lose His Spirit and then satan gains control and that actually is what is happening,, porn addicts come under the influence of the power of the adversary and his minions and unless repented of , they shall remain under his power and influence...