An equal opportunity destroyer: how porn damages women--and what churches can do about it.(WHERE WE STAND: CT'S VIEWS AND KEY ISSUES)

OF YOU'VE HEARD the word porn in church recently, in a small group or from the pulpit, chances are you hardly blinked. Thanks to ministries like Promise Keepers and Operation Integrity, the research of sex addiction expert Patrick Carnes and neuroscientist William Struthers, and individuals courageous enough to admit they have a problem, American churches have squarely faced porn's destructive and tragic effects. We know porn is highly addictive, and we have more tools than ever to break its stranglehold. Praise God.

If you are a man, that is. On the whole, U.S. churches have been slower to see how pornography--a multibillion-dollar industry that dominates the Internet and becomes more violent by the minute--hurts more than the …