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How To Initiate Healthy Conversations About Porn With Your Teen

“What!?” When my fourteen-year-old son confessed to watching porn, I was devastated. I didn’t know he could access pornography, much less that he would. My husband is a pastor, and our children were h…

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4 Ways the Ever Accountable iOS Update Is a Game-Changer for Your Freedom

For too many years, if you wanted to live with integrity on an iPhone, you were stuck between a rock and a hard place. You either deleted every "risky" app and lived like it was 1995, or you used clun…

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Protecting Kids Online: The Stanley’s Internet Safety Tips to Stop Grooming, Porn, and Predators

Guest interview with Christian Stanley ## “If you give your kid access to the world, the world then has access to them...and the internet is gobbling up our teens.” — Christian Stanley That sobering t…

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Life After Porn: Brant Cole - Building a Fulfilling Life Without Porn

Ever wondered what life after porn could look like? We recently interviewed Brant Cole -- husband, father, pastor, and former porn addict turned porn recovery coach. "Back in 2016, after literally so …

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Does Porn Cause Anxiety and Impact Mental Health

If you struggle with anxiety and you also watch porn, have you seriously considered that pornography use could be contributing to the problem? In a recent National Library of Medicine article research…

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How to Stop Masturbating for Good: 9 Proven Steps

The pleasures of masturbation can often feel too great to give up. But, masturbation has the potential to develop into a compulsive habit tied to pornography. You may be wondering how to quit masturba…

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Is Porn Bad Understanding Its Impact and Making Empowered Choices

Are you frequently hiding an ongoing porn habit – and wondering to yourself, Is porn bad enough to really worry about You’re not alone! In 2024 survey data collected by Barna, not only do 61% of adult…

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The 4 Best Porn Accountability Software (Apps and Blockers)

So you’ve done it again. After promising yourself you’d quit porn for good, somehow your eyes ended up somewhere they shouldn’t. Watching adult content is an extremely difficult problem to overcome, w…

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How to Block Adult Content on Facebook - 3 Methods for Success

Picture this: You’re taking a break and mindlessly scrolling through Facebook…when wham! Out of nowhere, a seriously explicit picture shows up on your newsfeed. You look away immediately, but imagine …

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How to Effectively Block Porn on Twitter (X): A Complete Guide

Twitter (now X) is probably the worst mass social media platform when it comes to explicit content. Unlike Facebook or Instagram, where porn goes against the community guidelines, Twitter openly welco…

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How to Block Adult Websites on Your Phone Permanently: The Complete Guide for Lasting Control and Peace of Mind

Are you tired of temporary fixes that don’t keep adult content out for good? Well… this article is for you! There are many options out there, but most of them are only temporary. They either let expli…

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The 6 Best Porn Blockers in 2025: Find the Right Tools for Long-Term Success

Here’s the problem with most porn blockers. There are SO MANY workarounds. Sure, they’ll prevent you from visiting websites that are obviously for porn. But they don’t do a great job of blocking sugge…

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Is Watching AI-Generated Porn Ethical

" Swift is far from the only woman, famous or otherwise, to have been subjected to AI-generated explicit images of themselves without their permission…Swifties have been vocal in the need for more pro…

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Holiday stress and porn triggers: 7 ways to cope

As the holiday season approaches, we need to acknowledge something uncomfortable. Many of us are not okay. We’re anxious, stressed, and grieving. According to Reuters, an estimated 9.9 million America…

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Is Spotify safe for kids (or even adults)

Many of us enjoy vibing daily to our Spotify playlists. But, is Spotify safe for anyone struggling with porn use? As parents and valued customers, you deserve to know the hidden facts about Spotify. I…

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Teens on Social Media - An Instagram Safety Guide for Parents

Are your young teens on social media platforms like Instagram If so, do you wonder how to help your teen use Instagram safely At what age is it even considered “safe” to let your child use Instagram T…

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Our FREE Ever Accountable Update Is All About YOU

Do you remember times in your life when someone said to you, “I’m so proud of you!” That feeling of warmth and encouragement is one of life’s good gifts. Moments like this help us keep going when life…

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Porn and Sexual Violence: A Relationship With Consequences

(Please note that this article could be triggering to those recovering from pornography. However, for the sake of domestic violence and sexual abuse victims, we feel this is a needed topic.) We believ…

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4 Ways to Quit Porn: Using Your Body Plus Mindfulness

I was addicted to porn for decades. I went the standard route to quit porn for years (decades, really) by going to a traditional therapist, 12 step meetings, and medication. I tried everything to stop…

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Child Pornography vs. Child Sexual Abuse Material: What's In A Name and Why It Matters

Kids and porn. Those two words shouldn’t even ever belong in the same sentence. However, pornography consumption spreads across the globe like a tidal wave. Speaking up and speaking out about the harm…

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The Link Between Gaming and Porn Use

It's unlikely that playing the 1980s game of Pac-Man will entice or encourage porn use or introduce suggestive imagery to the unsuspecting. But that can’t be said across the board for modern video gam…

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Two Big Lies That Young Men Believe About Porn

If you’re a young man and you want to be married someday soon, this article is for you. I’m a guy who’s married, adores his wife and kids, and wants you to find happiness and contentment in your marri…

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KLZ Radio Interview "Rush to Reason" Porn and Accountability

Recently Tyler Patterson, founder of Ever Accountable, was interviewed by John Rush’s “Rush to Reason” of KLZ radio based in Denver, Colorado to chat about porn and accountability. We're sharing this …

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7 Secrets to Make your New Year's Resolution to Quit Porn a Success

The long-running jokes about failing on New Year's resolutions are getting a bit old, don't you think? ! According to studies, only nine percent of resolutioners actually succeed in their goals, and a…

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Avoiding Pornography When You're Far From Home

I recently had an enlightening conversation with \John, an athletic trainer for a local junior college football team. He opened up about his battle with pornography. Also he shared with me a few helpf…

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What to Watch Instead of Porn: The Awesomeness List of 101 Healthy Alternatives

You're doing your best. You've known for a while that pornography has become a problem in your life. You're seeing how often you get triggered, and how integral porn has become as a way to escape or n…

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Adam Savage: Talking to My Kids about Sex in the Internet Age

Everyone knows that the internet has made information easily accessible, especially when it comes to pornography. Perhaps the most unsettling consequence of readily available pornography online is how…

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Pornography & Gaming

Pornography and gaming are, of course, two very different subjects. Ever Accountable - as always - advocates the dangers of pornography (not video games). Today, however, we would like to look closely…

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How Pornography Affects Teenagers and Children

Despite many of our popular beliefs, the internet is not a safe place for our children to be roaming around. Pornography and predators seem to be lurking everywhere, just waiting to hook your child in…

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Blockading Pornography Rituals

In a previous post we discussed triggers, which are catalysts that create a desire to look at pornography. We looked to the expertise of Rob Weiss, who says that common triggers are "boredom, anxiety,…

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Understanding Pornography Triggers in Recovery

Understanding pornography triggers - how they work and how to avoid them - requires answering the larger question of why a person is triggered. A preoccupation with pornography might begin as just tha…

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NoFap's Emergency Button: Awesome!

Here at Ever Accountable we appreciate the great work other companies are doing in supporting people trying to quit pornography. NoFap describes themselves as a "Secular Porn-Recovery Community Websit…

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How a Parent's Pornography Consumption Affects their Children

We have all heard about or experienced the devastating impact pornography has on individuals, but its fallout on entire family groups is alarming. Researchers completed a major study of pornography, c…

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Are You a Dad Who Uses Pornography (Part Two)

(Part 1 is here) In last week's post, we discussed ways to open a conversation with your child/teenager about pornography, how to make a game plan for situations that they may face, and things you can…

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Are You a Dad Who Uses Pornography (Part One)

"He got started on pornography when he found his dad's stash. He was 8 years old at the time." A religious leader related this story to me (without revealing any personal information) with tears in hi…

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Why Pornography Thrives on Phones

My phone never leaves me. And, I mean never. – Whether I'm ten miles into the backcountry on a hiking excursion, at the mall, at work, in the bathroom, sleeping , my phone is my constant companion. Ma…

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