For Men Only (and curious wives and mothers)

If you are male, and you've ever spent any time on the internet then you are certainly well aware of the amount of sewage that is readily available. If you are like most males, then you know the drill that most porn viewing begins with a seemingly benign event like a trip to any just about any male oriented site and you are bombarded with alluring images of bikini clad beer ads, singles ads, and the like. One click on bikini clad beach babe and moments later you are in the internet's red light district and inches from falling flat on your face.

No amount of "protection" can circumvent a lack of self-control; however, if you are the sort that needs a little help (which if we are honest with ourselves would likely include every man reading this) please let me offer some.

Below are the urls to two very helpful programs.

x3 Watch available here is accountability software which monitors your internet traffic and periodically sends an e-mail to two buddies who can then come and break your modem in half before your unclean eyes should you find yourself in compromising territory (and don't try to lie, we know it didn't just "pop up", this isn't 1998...) Feel free to put me down as one of your accountability partners, I will gladly break your modem for you if needed.

Naomi is a sweet little program that automatically closes your browser if you find yourself in "no-no" territory. The sweet thing about this application is that it has a heuristic analysis which reads the content of pages and if it recognizes something that you (or your kids, or anyone else using your machine) should not be looking at it goes into action. Youth Pastors and 'evil' parents (like me) who want their kids' to never have any fun will also be glad to know that it can block MySpace and image searches.

Please, from a man who has been down this road many times, know that the Enemy only asks for an inch, then he takes a mile. I will post some more tips in the future.

For the men out there (yes, both of you) who have never faced sexual temptation on the internet, we're happy for you, now shut up and pray for the rest of us.