Comments on: Why accountability partners don’t work for pornography addiction http://sexual-sanity.com/2010/02/why-accountability-partners-dont-work-for-pornography-addiction/ finding intimacy and freedom from pornography and sex addiction Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Luke Gilkerson http://sexual-sanity.com/2010/02/why-accountability-partners-dont-work-for-pornography-addiction/#comment-3243 Luke Gilkerson Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:51:53 +0000 http://sexual-sanity.com/?p=637#comment-3243 Would you be interested in writing a guest post for the Covenant Eyes blog? Would you be interested in writing a guest post for the Covenant Eyes blog?

]]> By: Mark http://sexual-sanity.com/2010/02/why-accountability-partners-dont-work-for-pornography-addiction/#comment-2417 Mark Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:45:07 +0000 http://sexual-sanity.com/?p=637#comment-2417 Thanks for the comment Luke. I am a big fan and user of Covenant Eyes, and see what you guys are doing as more helpful than the amorphous "accountability" that's out there. In actual fact, the concept of accountability does make sense and is helpful **IF** it's part of a larger program of support and recovery, which is what I'm trying to say in the article ... and Covenant Eyes is an important part of that program for many men. Keep up the good work at Covenant Eyes! - Mark Thanks for the comment Luke. I am a big fan and user of Covenant Eyes, and see what you guys are doing as more helpful than the amorphous “accountability” that’s out there. In actual fact, the concept of accountability does make sense and is helpful **IF** it’s part of a larger program of support and recovery, which is what I’m trying to say in the article … and Covenant Eyes is an important part of that program for many men. Keep up the good work at Covenant Eyes!

- Mark

]]> By: Luke Gilkerson http://sexual-sanity.com/2010/02/why-accountability-partners-dont-work-for-pornography-addiction/#comment-2416 Luke Gilkerson Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:20:47 +0000 http://sexual-sanity.com/?p=637#comment-2416 Thanks for this podcast about accountability. Describing accountability this way, I would agree with you: accountability of this sort doesn't work. We don't just need people to commiserate with. We need real help. Too often I talk to people who've tried accountability and they either describe the unavailable acquaintance, the passive friend who enables them, the bully who policed them, or the moral giant who couldn't relate to them. I liked your idea of "accountability to a system or structure" as a bridge to talk about real and healthy accountability. Well said. As someone who works for an Internet accountability company (Covenant Eyes), I am glad to hear when people use our accountability reports in this fashion, as a structure that helps maintain and develop real and healthy accountability in the context of the church community. Thanks for this podcast about accountability. Describing accountability this way, I would agree with you: accountability of this sort doesn’t work. We don’t just need people to commiserate with. We need real help. Too often I talk to people who’ve tried accountability and they either describe the unavailable acquaintance, the passive friend who enables them, the bully who policed them, or the moral giant who couldn’t relate to them.

I liked your idea of “accountability to a system or structure” as a bridge to talk about real and healthy accountability. Well said.

As someone who works for an Internet accountability company (Covenant Eyes), I am glad to hear when people use our accountability reports in this fashion, as a structure that helps maintain and develop real and healthy accountability in the context of the church community.

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