VPNs do however have legitimate and positive uses, especially for the dissident right like us. Banning them is like the left banning guns and would make it even easier for our governments to clamp down on us. Banning porn sites alone though would do wonders. I discovered porn accidentally as a pre-teen by clicking a link on a regular site and it destroyed my life. If we can pass legislation to get Google, Twitter, and all companies that do business in the US to ban it, that would cut down on a ton of accidental exposures, and at least save our youngest children or protect them until they are more mature.
I'm finding lately that fasting certainly helps to resist the temptation. Not only the Orthodox fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays, but also cutting down on processed seed oils and sugar is crucial. These foods inflame the passions. A natural whole foods diet is best.
Marriage could be a solution for many, but porn also creates a desire independent of the sexual urge. Especially when dealing with unnatural fetishes and perversions that get intricately mixed up with your psyche. It's more of the world than the flesh kind of temptation if that makes sense. And I don't expect marriage to solve it. Plenty of guys in relationships are jerking it to porn on the regular.
Totally agree on the banning and fasting. It's just too easy to access this stuff online and it's difficult to filter. I also stumbled upon it as a preteen. Also with food in the same way we are bombarded with junk and it's constantly in our face. Isn't there something about gluttony being the 'first line of defense' that gets torn down when we succumb to it, opening us up to further temptations?
I'm willing to bet there are astronomically way less Christian married men jerking it to porn vs. single men in general. "Guys in relationships" could also mean guys committing adultery, and in that type of relationship I can see how they would be more likely to watch porn and masturbate. I actually do think a healthy Christian marriage would quell even the perversions, if done 'right'. I do agree and understand your point though because I myself have experienced this sexual novelty factor spiraling out of control to dark places on the internet in unrealistic ways, and it even transferred over to my old girlfriends, but they weren't my wife or mother of my children, and I sadly many times just saw them as a sex object for fornication. I was a very sinful man at the time.
However, there were times when I didn't see them this way. And that was when I was feeling a deep love for them. It's hard to explain. But I just mean I didn't always see them in a purely lustful way, leading to the transferring over of the complexes I got from porn. I do think it would have gone away completely if I had quit watching porn at the time, and I married them. If I had quit my cheating, fornication, and hooker games, it would have put it to rest. If I had stopped being selfish and committed to one of them, especially the ones I had that were Christians.
I think the scripture just mentioned is the solution. Will it still be a struggle? I'm sure. But I absolutely do not see it as a case of being stuck with the same level of this issue after marrying, unless of course it's someone who had a failed marriage/divorce, is in a toxic/unhealthy marriage, if their wife is physically and/or mentally ill and they essentially become a married monk, etc.
I think there's alot of cases to be made where scripture tells us a solution to something, and we can say "yes but even some people that follow that still have said problems", but I think we would be missing the point. Their predicaments are multifactoral but the overarching ideal is there to try and emulate.
