foreign topic we’re just going to jump right in welcome to therapy and theology with Dr Joel mutomale and Jim Cress I’m Lisa turkhurst and the topic today is pornography we’re calling this show the porn demic now as we get into this topic I just want to acknowledge what we’ve had to acknowledge in our study days on this and that is that pornography is tough and people are going to enter into this conversation with several different reactions or preconceived notions as you hear the word pornography so I’m going

to share where I’m at in this and that is when I hear the word pornography um I get an instant feeling inside of me two things one I don’t get it and two it is attached to hurt um now I want to be incredibly sensitive because I know there are many people who absolutely do get it and so let me read a couple other reactions that we um we recorded when we were studying this maybe your reaction is I’ve been so deeply hurt by this just the word pornography makes me cringe or cry and I get that or I struggle with pornography myself maybe some people are

saying that um or I have a lot of questions around this topic um or I’ve been wanting to have conversations around this topic but have never known how to have the conversations or have never felt comfortable enough to have conversations like who do you talk to that about this with you know so I recognize that several people are all different people are having several different reactions to hearing the word pornography I want to acknowledge that and I want to say right off the bat no matter where you come from we’re not going to shame you