WRAP Week

White Ribbon Against Porn Week

October 25th - 31st 

"WHAT IS W.R.A.P. WEEK?

The National White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week brings together hundreds of national, state and local groups, along with driven concerned citizens in a massive effort to educate the public on the harms from pornography and the many resources available to aid those affected. National WRAP Week always starts the last Sunday of October.

We are excited to take part in our 1st annual W.R.A.P. Week and even more excited to have you join us!

During WRAP Week we will choose a campaign to launch. An online initiative, if you will. This year we have decided to initiate the#IHATEPORN campaign. Will you join us?

Why this campaign? Well, we HATE porn! Romans 12:9 tells us to, hate what is evil and cling to what is good.

WE HATE WHAT PORN DOES TO THE USER

You become addicted to having a variety of sexual “partners.” This is not an addiction that works out very well in marriage—if you ever even get to that point. The sad fact is, some single people reading this would not still be single if not for porn. And most divorces (56%) involve one spouse having “excessive” porn use. Porn is killing your marriage before you even have a spouse.

You lose confidence. Pornography use is a coping mechanism for some underlying pain or insecurity. Besides not dealing with those issues, pornography gives you more things to be insecure about, and can often evolve into self-loathing and depression.

You become desensitized. To everything: good things do not bring you as much joy; terrible things do not seem as bad. Beautiful people around you cease to be beautiful, because you are used to unnatural bodies on a screen.

You become a monster. Eventually. As you become desensitized to porn itself, you need more extreme examples of it to get the same “fix.” So what’s more extreme? Incest. Bestiality. Rape. 90% of all porn scenes contain acts of physical or verbal aggression, and experiments have shown that porn use leads to a less positive view of women and a less negative view of rape.

WE HATE THE WAY PORN HURTS OTHERS

Pornography use hurts those you care about most, including yourself and your future or current spouse. But it hurts those in the industry even worse.

The great lie of pornographic movies is that the actors involved are really enjoying it. They are actors, acting out scenes in a fictional movie. But this type of movie has no stunt doubles, and the script includes humiliating, painful, and even abusive acts done in front of a film crew and replayed to a mass audience.

Here’s what is real:

Pornographic film actors/actresses are 10 times more likely to contract STDs.

Thanks to disease, drug use, suicide, and murder, it is reported that the average life expectancy of a pornographic performer is only 37.4 years.

Pornography contributes to sex trafficking. Fact.

By watching it, you help create the demand that keeps the industry going.

WE HATE WHAT PORN DOES TO OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS

You cannot be intimate with Jesus at the same time you are doing something that caused Him to suffer and die. Your own mind won’t allow it.

Even Jesus felt separated from God when He took on our sins on the cross.

If you can look at pornography and find that because of it your relationship with God is improved—that you feel closer to God, and everything is right between you and the Creator of all good things—then go ahead and do it. But if you can’t, don’t.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do…What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! – Romans 7:15 & 24-25

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE IN OUR WRAP WEEK'S #IHATEPORN CAMPAIGN?

You can participate by:

Posting one of our #IHATEPORN graphics as your Facebook, Twitter banner and/or profile pic during WRAP Week.

Share your photos and videos using the hashtag #IHATEPORN and #GOPWRAPWEEK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Purchasing a God Over Porn or #IHATEPORN merch, or you can donate $5 towards our ministry to help us continue in our efforts to spread the dangers of pornography.

BE SURE NOT TO MISS SOME GIVE-AWAYS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AND OUR LIVE PERISCOPE BROADCAST WITH OUR FOUNDER JARRAD MILLER ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST AT 6:00 P.M. (CST) [PERISCOPE: @GODOVERPORN]

- See more at: http://www.godoverporn.org/upcoming-events"

This is my husband's hashtag for WRAP week. 

Get yourselves informed about the dangers of messing with pornography and the harm it has not only on the user, their families, their relationship with God and also the "pornstars". 

Signing Off,

Wife of an ex porn user!

#SavedByAmazingGrace