ADDICTION - 1. "Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior/rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences."
2. LDSmag. com Addiction Definition:
Addiction exists when the repeated use of a mood altering substance or
behavior (of any kind) has created a dependency on itself so intense
that the person doing the behavior cannot find the will-power to quit,
even when the behavior is causing serious damage to one’s relationships,
health, employment, and personal sense of serenity and spirituality.
3. LDS. org Church Guide Definition:
Addiction is a persistent dependence on a harmful behavior or substance.
It can disrupt the ability to listen to the Spirit and limit
agency. Many who struggle with an addiction suffer from shame or a sense
that they are unlovable. They may feel discouragement and despair that
recovery is not possible. Yet with God, nothing is impossible"
(Note: *** Lack of fequency is not always an indicator of addiction. Acting out can be once a day, once a
week, once a month, or even once a year etc. and still be an addiction)
PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION - 1. Pornography addiction is a
behavioral addiction characterized by compulsive, repeated use of
pornographic material until it causes serious negative consequences to
one's physical, mental, social, and/or financial well-being.
2. Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts
3. A condition that has been defined as a psychological
addiction to, or dependence upon, pornography, characterized by
obsessive viewing, reading, and thinking about pornography and sexual
themes to the detriment of other areas of the viewer’s life
4. Prolonged viewing or pornography - books, magazines,
movies, or Internet pornography - that has destructive effects on the
life of a person"
SEX ADDICTION - Is a term used for any addiction that is sexual in nature. Therapist Doug Weiss CSAT PhD states "Since pornography is sexual, we consider a person who is addicted to porn a sexual addict or sexual compulsive."
Includes but not limited to, sex, pornography, or masturbation addiction, prostitutes, brothels, voyeurism, or sexual fetish addictions etc etc
ACTING OUT - Intentionally seeking out any erotic and
sensual stimulus, even if "accidental" at first. DEFINITE lines of
acting out: Pornography, Masturbation, Infidelity, Emotional infidelity,
Inappropriate relationships with opposite sex, Chatting, Flirting, Sex
ad browsing, Forcing anyone to have sex (yes, even if it’s your own
wife), & Massage brothels.
PORNOGRAPHY - 1. Any material depicting or describing the
human body or sexual conduct in a way that arouses sexual feelings. This
includes scantily dressed women in bikinis, lingerie or revealing
clothes, scantily dressed woman in comics, cartoons, or art, sexual
content in books, risky material in movies, TV shows, phone apps, or
games. For many men this also includes scantily dressed women at the
gym, women's UFC fights, & the dancers during sports games.
2. LDS .org Church Definition of Pornography -
"Pornography is any visual or written medium created with the intent
to sexually stimulate. If the work was not intended to stimulate but
nevertheless causes sexual arousal in an individual, it constitutes
pornography for that person."
&
"Pornography is any entertainment that uses immodest or
indecent images to stimulate sexual feelings. So even a mainstream
television program or advertisement can be pornographic. If images
trigger sexual feelings in you, you should avoid them."
&
"Pornography by definition is the display of that which is obscene and licentious."
Elder C. Gary Bennett
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/06/i-have-a-question?lang=eng
MASTURBATION - 1. To stimulate yourself sexually. In other words, to have sex by yourself, with yourself.
2. Get sexual gratification through self-stimulation
3. Excitation of one's own or another's genital organs,
usually to orgasm, by manual contact or means other than sexual
intercourse."
4. Erotic stimulation especially of one's own genital
organs commonly resulting in orgasm and achieved by manual or other
bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse, by instrumental
manipulation, occasionally by sexual fantasies, or by various
combinations of these agencies.
5. Lds author Andrew Pippanne/Rowboat&Marbles Masturbation Definition:
"Masturbation is sex with self.Sex with self is sex with someone other
than your husband or wife to whom you are legally and lawfully
married.Therefore, masturbation is a violation of temple covenants."
6. Lds .org Spencer W Kimball:
" Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by
which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly
through the nocturnal emission or wet dream. "
(***Note they use the word "usually" and not "always". Sexually
stimulating oneself with, or without orgasm, is still masturbation.)
S.L.I.P -- "Sexual Sobriety Lost its Priority" - A slip is a
one-time unexpected unplanned break in abstinence. Slips are
significant events that call for immediate attention because they can
easily lead to relapses. Since it is acting out in ones addiction it
requires a restart in sobriety. (Learn more
HERE)
RELAPSE - A relapse is the recurrence of symptoms of a
disease or to resume acting out after a period of abstinence.
Since it is acting out in ones addiction it requires a restart in
sobriety. (Learn more
HERE)