Becca Bratt left the porn industry two years ago and is now living a whole new life. After a heroin overdose, she made her way back home to her parents and God began to restore their relationship in amazing ways. Becca contacted Shelley Lubben last year and more

VJ Soporno's Story

I was always the type to need to be center of attention. If I wasn't the center of attention, I felt like the outcast. It's usually either one or the other, no middle ground for people like us. Furthermore, no amount of attention (with the exception of from the occasional stalker which was too much attention) was really satisfying. I'm currently finding out that it's not necessarily "human" attention I've been looking for - even though that's where I obsessively look for it. more

Shelley Lubben - former pornstar:

"Sex-packed porn films featuring freshly-dyed blondes whose evocative eyes say "I want you" are quite possibly one of the greatest deceptions of all time. Trust me, I know. I did it all the time, and I did it for the lust of power and the love of money. I never liked sex. I never wanted sex and in fact I was more apt to spend time with Jack Daniels than some of the studs I was paid to "fake it" with. That's right none of us freshly-dyed blondes like doing porn. In fact, we hate it. We hate being touched by strangers who care nothing about us. We hate being degraded with their foul smells and sweaty bodies. Some women hate it so much you can hear them vomiting in the bathroom between scenes. Others can be found outside smoking an endless chain of Marlboro lights"    more...

Abstract with permission of Mike Genung 2007 - Link to Mike Website see below.

I grew up in a Christian home and accepted Christ at an early age. However there were some problems in our family which included sexual abuse, and I learned to cope by using sex for comfort and love. I started with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, Playboy and masturbation, and then graduated to hard core porn, promiscuity, sex with prostitutes, , and adultery. Along the way I broke up a family of five, (as a single man I committed adultery with a married mother of three, and played a major role in destroying their family), picked up an STD from a woman I met at a bar more...

- 23% admitted having ''something sexual'' going on with a person other than their wife.

- 12% were having sexual intercourse with someone else than their partner

- 61% fantasized on having sex with someone else than their marriage partner

- 25% were having sexual fantasies on a weekly or daily basis 

Question: Is it possible for church to become a place where also leaders can become open and transparent? Why not? Can a church leader find refuge in church or is he thrown out of the community, as is often the case nowadays?