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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social

Pastors living "in constant fear of their sinful addiction being exposed" while simultaneously campaigning for government-mandated surveillance to expose it is some industrial-grade religious kink. www.christianpost.com/news/pornhub...

The Barna study, conducted along with the Josh McDowell Ministry, found that 93% of pastors and 94% of youth pastors believe porn is a bigger problem in churches than it was two decades ago, and that 57% of pastors and 64% of youth pastors have personally struggled with it either currently or in the past. Of the pastors who were still struggling with porn, 87% said they felt great shame about it, and 55% said they live in constant fear of their sinful addiction being exposed.
aug 15, 2025, 10:35 pm β€’ 550 160

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SemSema πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ @semaleena.bsky.social

Don’t be a pastor them pervert, my good god

aug 16, 2025, 10:40 am β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Akiva גקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social

"Yo, I can't help it! I can't stop! I need the state to intervene and impose restrictions on everyone's access because Jesus isn't keeping it away from me."

aug 16, 2025, 7:59 pm β€’ 3 0 β€’ view
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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social

Maybe, for the sakes of their own sanity, they should re-evaluate the weird, restrictive beliefs about human sexuality that their religion forces upon them. What is so horrifically taboo about watching other people engaging in sexual activities?

aug 16, 2025, 7:42 pm β€’ 4 0 β€’ view
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elizabelta.bsky.social @elizabelta.bsky.social

Just admit it's not sinful as l9ng as everyone is adult and consenting. Problem solved.

aug 16, 2025, 8:59 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Lettymontana @lettymontana.bsky.social

Bring back Salt Peter! JFC.

aug 17, 2025, 12:36 am β€’ 0 0 β€’ view
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Immigrant Penguin πŸ§πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @penguinitoguate.bsky.social

"I (including my religious beliefs) am not strong enough to fight my compulsion, so I need the government to stop it for me."

aug 16, 2025, 8:26 pm β€’ 3 0 β€’ view
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☠️ClickRisky @clickrisky.newgrounds.com

Do you suppose living such a strictly repressed life might have some kind of negative effects on someone's mental health, particularly when it comes to the kinds of things they feel like they can't talk about or find joy in? Who's to say.

aug 16, 2025, 1:18 am β€’ 12 0 β€’ view
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WhyAmI 🌻 @whyami.bsky.social

Exactly. Repression always turns normal desires into twisted yuck. Purity culture has a lot to answer for.

aug 16, 2025, 10:46 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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palmsguy.bsky.social @palmsguy.bsky.social

I went to college with many a cowardly pastor

aug 16, 2025, 5:50 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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OneThatGoesBoom! @onethatgoesboom.bsky.social

I wonder how many of the world's problems would instantly dissolve into the aether if people could just accept who and what they are and the things they want.

aug 15, 2025, 10:42 pm β€’ 29 2 β€’ view
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Sinister H. Woods πŸ‘πŸ† @candidwoods.bsky.social

I mean..... Some people should not lean in, and it rhymes with belfry pepstein. for as a lot of stuff it would get rid of, there would also be a lot more leaning in from predators. In fact, Donnie gave a lot on the right the permission to express what they've been feeling on the inside.

aug 16, 2025, 5:13 am β€’ 3 0 β€’ view
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OneThatGoesBoom! @onethatgoesboom.bsky.social

Ofc. The optimistic view is in a less puritanical & judgy society ppl w/ aberrant & antisocial desires would feel less inhibited to seek the help they need to dispel them. & while I'm wishing I'll take a pony too, but I don't think it's a bad thing to encourage a more accepting & tolerant world🀷

aug 16, 2025, 5:45 am β€’ 5 0 β€’ view
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Sinister H. Woods πŸ‘πŸ† @candidwoods.bsky.social

Yeah, I'm just saying we've kinda opened a bit of a Pandora's box. I'm from a traditional background, that not only told me masturbation is a sin, but actually had me confess. So I'm fully in support of people not feeling ashamed. Buuuuuut... People with antisocial behaviors view them as positives.

aug 16, 2025, 6:16 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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OneThatGoesBoom! @onethatgoesboom.bsky.social

Informed consent w/ those able to do so should always be first & foremost ofc. I'm no behaviorist, but I can only imagine that the less repression there is, the less aberrant behavior will need surfacing. All I was trying to say. Not advocating the decrim of MAPS or anything LOL.

aug 17, 2025, 12:41 am β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Sinister H. Woods πŸ‘πŸ† @candidwoods.bsky.social

Oh, thanks for clarifying. And I agree l, there would be far less behavior like that.

aug 17, 2025, 1:06 am β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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OneThatGoesBoom! @onethatgoesboom.bsky.social

No prob. I stopped using social media in the late aughts more or less, so I sometimes forget that those types are more & more prevalent and frequently try to glom on to the LGBTQ+ community through various means. Just didn't want anyone to think that's what I was advocating for LOL.

aug 17, 2025, 1:13 am β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Chainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social

Dark tetrad people. Dark Tetrad | Psychology Today share.google/8LnHP1zCiuak...

aug 16, 2025, 9:33 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social

Predators hide in plain sight

aug 17, 2025, 1:26 pm β€’ 0 0 β€’ view
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Mugger Jack, (Lucky) @muggerjack.bsky.social

A lot of people who practice something compulsively, think it being outlawed will fix them. It doesn't, it just makes practicing it far more dangerous.

aug 16, 2025, 7:35 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Dee Severe πŸΆπŸŽ¬πŸˆπŸŽΆπŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ @deesevere.bsky.social

How about they say, "porn is a celebration of sexuality. Enjoy!" Problem solved! πŸ–€

aug 17, 2025, 7:15 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social

if porn is sinful why did God make milfs

aug 15, 2025, 10:57 pm β€’ 9 1 β€’ view
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Huh… @capitalistfool.bsky.social

For most of America, "struggling with porn" is about broadband speed

aug 15, 2025, 11:37 pm β€’ 20 3 β€’ view
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bassplayrhues.bsky.social @bassplayrhues.bsky.social

πŸ€”πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

aug 16, 2025, 3:09 am β€’ 0 0 β€’ view
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akmike.bsky.social @akmike.bsky.social

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ what’s your take on lesbian porn?; full HD!

aug 16, 2025, 2:50 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social

You wanna see some porn? ...

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aug 17, 2025, 1:25 pm β€’ 1 0 β€’ view
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Danika @glittermilk.bsky.social

Dudes just need to rub one out already and chill. Leave the rest of us alone. I mean, who tf cares who watches porn?

aug 16, 2025, 8:43 pm β€’ 3 0 β€’ view
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Varanimal @ariusrevenge.bsky.social

Porn like any sex work is an art form. Any open-minded creative person in filming & editing must call porn a valuable visual art form as that is the title it deserves. Porn addiction is not bad unless you are self righteous & judgmental of kink. That’s wrong in 2025. People need sex & sex work.

aug 17, 2025, 1:47 am β€’ 0 0 β€’ view
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dollyz.bsky.social @dollyz.bsky.social

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aug 16, 2025, 7:34 am β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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Chainmailed Heart @chainmailedheart.bsky.social

Approximately 80% of child victims of sex trafficking in the U.S. are trafficked by family members. So yes, there's trafficking rings, but that's not the majority of trafficked children. The problem isn't somewhere far away, it's local.

aug 16, 2025, 9:25 pm β€’ 0 0 β€’ view
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Cavvy πŸ”ž @rosetintedmonocle.bsky.social

"Lies? In your house of God? No wonder he has abandoned you." maybe you pastors wouldn't be living "in constant fear" if you weren't practicing the shit you saw in porn on CHILDREN.

aug 15, 2025, 11:07 pm β€’ 6 1 β€’ view
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social

It's not what they saw in porn that's the problem. It's what they saw in seminary.

aug 15, 2025, 11:26 pm β€’ 8 0 β€’ view
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Kyne Dove @kynedove.bsky.social

Sex and porn addictions are massively prevalent in most industrial societies right now. It was reported that the North Korean soldiers became instantly addicted to it when they had free access to internet when sent to the front lines for the Ukraine conflict.

aug 16, 2025, 6:30 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view
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The God of Cities @thegodofcities.bsky.social

Well, all praise the galloping gonads of Galactus.

aug 16, 2025, 4:48 pm β€’ 2 0 β€’ view