As far as abuse in the industry goes, calling pornography things like sinful enables and encourages the abuse by promoting the belief that the people involved are somehow evil and therefore deserve it. Same as it does with prostitutes; they’re “bad”, so anything that happens to them is a deserved punishment.
My entire post touched on that when I said exploitation is so common as to become mainstream. The fact that people are exposed to porn everywhere, whether the want it or not isn’t great and the fact that people are exposed so young to exploitation is depressing. The NY Times did a series on mothers who pressure their prepubescent daughters into posting salacious content online for money made my skin crawl.
I’ve had something along those lines, but the cause was when I was a very young child when something unmentionable happened to me - enough said on that. But yes that did form a sort of marriage to a demonic being. Nothing really happened till early puberty where I was compelled to masturbation, but was not successful at the ‘ending’ at first. Once I was mature enough to get to the ending, I started to have sexual dreams which often ended as a wet dream. These grew in incredible ways, far more wonderful, and able to experience what is in the bible written as two becoming one flesh. This persisted into my 30’s.
This also I believe had a great effect on my social life, particularly my dating life which didn’t start till age 27. This was later revealed to me that the marriage I was in was a spiritually enforceable contract, and this demon would try to chase away any potential rival by rite. I did however manage to get married at age 29 or 30 (I forget), and for that time the sexual dreams stopped, but that marriage devolved to that same form of isolation that I had before and would be considered sexless.
After the separation and then divorce the wet dreams came back. But they were starting to get different. Most peculiar when I came I would usually wake up with evidence of a wet dream and have to clean myself, however if I came inside her, I would wake up with no such evidence and it was like she was stealing my seed. It is this time that I learned about a demon called a succubus and how it is a female demonic being that steals seed from men to somehow use to impregnate others - that tidbit was the key I used to break that spiritual contract getting rid of her, but not at that time.
After I found out what was happening, in a dream when she came to me, I told her to go away, that I no longer wanted to be with her. She told me that she as a right to me, as we were married and she will take what she wants. From this point on my dreams became night terrors. They were so horrible that I tried not to sleep. During the day I was living in constant fear and anxiety that I had to sleep and be tormented.
The dreams, one by one put me in greater and greater states of bondage, I was slowly losing the ability things like movement, and my ‘dream like’ powers which sometimes involved flight, and most importantly the ability to end my dream from within the dream which was taken away in a most horrifying way. I would wake myself up, only to find I am still dreaming and still in that same horrible place. Over and over, thinking I was in my bed awake, sure I was awake, just to find I was in that other place being toyed with with these beings who were refusing my ability to leave. Sexually with this ‘thing’, it devolved to she would appear out of nowhere in the nightmare, she would come up to me face to face, in an instant I was inside her, ejaculated and she would leave. That fast. No pleasure buildup - no pleasure, purely mechanical. And after that happened I would feel decrepit, violated and robbed.
But I was also in deep study of the Bible at this time and learning about my power in Christ. And in this I tried to wield the power of God against her and the others, and yes it did make some progress, but also they increased their effort of bondage to where if I tried to approach them, I couldn’t move towards them.
Eventually I put together that key, that this demon, by using my seed to impregnate others, was committing adultery, which is the only reason Jesus gives for divorce. While awake I wrote her a certificate of divorce, and burned it to sent it to her realm add … that was it she was gone, I never experienced her again. Now, for completeness there was another demon involved that I had to battle, a child demon which also was dispelled in about the same time frame, but that’s doesn’t seem that related to the OP.
Answer #1: Of course not.
Answer #2: Of course not.
I’m not going to offer an opinion, but I have to admit that the very first question I had after reading the OP was, “Did she stop and spell her name for you?”
I was stuck on, “giant white pupils with beady little red eyes”.
Good point.
Revealed by who?
As someone who suffered from schizophrenia, telling someone who is mentally ill to see a doctor doesn’t work. It would be like if you were walking down the street minding your own business and someone said ‘you need to see a doctor for you broken arm’, so you look at your arm and see that its perfectly fine and can’t figure out why they are telling you to see a doctor.
The sad part about mental illness is that when you are mentally ill, the part of your brain that is able to figure out that you are mentally ill is also broken. So you don’t have the insight to understand you are mentally ill. Imagine you broke your arms in a car accident, but also the part of your brain that has the ability to notice your arm is broken was also damaged, so you don’t understand why people keep telling you to see a doctor for a broken arm. Its a very sad situation, and I don’t know what the solution is.
I guess the best thing to say is that if you’re having these experiences and they are making you feel stressed and confused, it would be good to see a therapist to discuss how scary and confusing these experiences are so you do not have to deal with them by yourself. Dealing with things like this by yourself is extremely stressful and confusing, and it is easier when you discuss them with someone who is trained in how to deal with emotions who can help you process how confusing, isolating and scary these experiences can be. Going through experiences that make you feel like you are seeing and experiencing things that none of the other 8 billion human beings have seen and experienced, especially when it happens when you are just a teenager or in your early 20s, is very confusing and stressful.
Did you, at any time, seek the help of a medical professional?
Depends on the specific mental illness, obviously. But for people with schizophrenia above a certain level of severity, yeah, rational self-assessment is likely to be difficult.
Jesus did stop them from stoning her to death, but that does not mean he approved of her activities. In fact he told her to go and sin no more. Clearly indicating that letting people pet her kitty cat for money was not something he approved of.
The Bible contains numerous passages addressing sexual morality, both directly and indirectly, covering a wide range of topics including marriage, adultery, and various forms of sexual immorality. While some passages are explicit condemnations, others explore the positive aspects of sexual expression within the context of marriage. Jesus may have had some issues with the the Sanhedrin which was the Jewish council that served as the supreme religious, legislative, and educational body in ancient Israel at the time, but he fully embraced and supported the scriptures which means he supported the previous teachings of the prophets which covered a wide range of topics that he did not specifically talk about during his ministry.
I will agree that some Christians are more focused on telling people what they should not be doping rather than feeding the poor and helping the sick and down trodden. However the focus on sexual morality did not start with modern day Christianity. The old testament deals a great deal with sexual morality.
the Old Testament addresses sexual morality, outlining laws and narratives that cover a range of sexual behaviors. These include prohibitions against adultery, incest, and homosexual acts, as well as guidelines for marriage and sexual conduct within marriage. I don’t think its fair to say the focus on sex is a modern day Christian thing or that the bible itself or the culture it was written in backs that statement up. During biblical times, Jewish culture emphasized sexual purity, with a focus on regulating sexual behavior and relationships, particularly within the context of marriage.
How many times does Jesus preach on sexual morality, compared to economic morality or kindness? Looking for a number here. “Go and sin no more” is, in English, five words, and I suspect something similar in Aramaic. I’m unaware of other times he spent talking about sex.
Old testament is different, of course. But Jesus? Much less concerned with who’s boinking whom than modern mainstream Christianity.
I’m not sure I agree with your premise there, Lou.
We live in a golden age of porn. Any thing you want, any kink you have, anything you can imagine, there’s easily available porn. heck the internet is 95% porn, 2% cat memes, and 3% everything else.
And yet, people hate each other with a fervor rarely seen. Hatred directed at groups is prevalent everywhere. Red states, I’m sure the largest consumers of porn, are right there.
The Bible, being a collection of writings from different authors from different cultures and different times, can be used to justify just about anything. There aren’t very many viewpoints that can’t be justified by selective reading and interpretation.
Although it’s true that the plain text of the Torah, unlike the Christian scriptures, clearly forbids (at least male) homosexuality, it devotes all of two lines to the subject. If we’re going by word count, God cares a lot more about being nice to immigrants and not working on Saturday.
jazibiyya. The word “jazibiyya” (جاذبية) is an Arabic word meaning attraction, charm, or appeal. No it did not spell the name for me.
Also, in a farming community that required lots of child labor, and that also had no reliable birth control, producing lots of children to married couples was economically critical, and making sure the husband accepted his wife’s children as his was also important. Their in a little patriarchy and perhaps an aversion to male homosexuality, and we’ve got plenty of justification for biblical sexual rules.
Among the ultra-Orthodox in particular, it still does.
You can’t reason someone out of mental illness.