Growing up, every girl desires to be cherished. Every woman settles for being desired. What lets us, as people, created in the image of love itself, settle for something less than second best? What lets us be content with lust?

Very few, if any, little boys grow up imagining beating up women. Instead, they don foil suits and wield cardboard swords. They tear through the house battling villains, dragons and evil queens. They scale castle walls all to rescue a fair maiden trapped in some yonder tower.

Admittedly, men have the corner market on pornography ministries. It seems a sad fact that you cannot have a men’s conference without a session addressing pornography and that when pornography is mentioned, people are usually talking about men. It puts a ministry like Beggar’s Daughter in this type of sci-fi realm of reality. A spiritual twilight zone that confuses men and women alike. Often I get phone calls or e-mails that say, “Why on earth do women do this? Do they do it for the same reasons as men?”

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
1 Peter 5:8

In recent months, I have been able to work with two mothers. One, whose fifteen-year-old daughter came to her confessing an addiction to pornography, and another, who discovered that her daughters (ages 11 and 14) have been sexting. These mothers were shocked.