Dirty Girls Ministries is the website, but the name doesn’t imply what you think. Run by Crystal Renaud, the site is dedicated to guiding a group that hasn’t received much attention in the past — woman suffering from porn addiction.
Renaud has been running the site along with an outreach program — Victory Over Porn Addiction — at the evangelical megachurch Westside in Lenexa, Kan., since 2008. While male porn addicts receive plenty of press, Renaud says women get ignored, especially in the Christian culture, where “women are supposed to be the nonsexual ones.”
As the New York Times reports, Renaud is taking her cues from other megachurch programs and internet ministries, which have expanded their workshops to include those of a more deviant nature; like that of the website XXX Church, one of the first set up for porn users :
The programs at Ms. Renaud’s group and at XXX Church diverge from secular sexual theory by treating masturbation and arousal as sins rather than elements of healthy sexuality. Emphasis is on recovering “sexual purity,” in which thoughts of sex outside marriage are illicit.
Ms. Renaud uses weekly assignments from a sexual addiction workbook called “L.I.F.E. Guide for Women,” which emphasizes prayer, Christian fellowship and the use of “accountability partners” to hold the users to high standards of abstinence.
Ms. Renaud seems to be in it for the long-haul in female porn-addiction recovery. She’s attending a three-day seminar in Sin City for Christians who want to establish non-profits. And like any 21st century entrepreneur, she’s relying less on disciples and more on Facebook and Twitter to get spread the good word.
Full story: Church Counsels Women Addicted to Pornography – NYTimes.com