A former reality star who announced she has been 'free' from masturbation for a decade has shared her secrets about how she ceased 'sexual sin'.
Madison Prewett has shared her guide to giving up both self-pleasure and watching porn after she broke free from her 'addiction' to these two vices by becoming reacquainted with her faith.
The 29-year-old, who appeared on the US dating show The Bachelor in 2020, explained she felt 'bound by shame' while keeping her penchant for these two pastimes a secret.
In the latest episode of her Stay True podcast, the Alabama-born TV star revealed how she stopped viewing adult videos and masturbating with the help of God - and now, she's around a decade clean of them both.
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Prewett told her YouTube listeners: "Thankfully, by the grace of God, and by the power of the Godly community and people around me, I have been free from porn and masturbation for...I don't even know, 10 years?
"That was something that enslaved me and marked me for so long. That was something I felt like I could not break free from. No matter how much I loved Jesus, I could not shake that sin."
After straying away from Christianity during her college years, the mother-of-one eventually reconnected with her religion and says she has never looked back.
Prewett - who got hitched to pastor Grant Troutt in 2022 - makes the process of giving up self-gratification and avoiding the visual stimulation it goes hand in with sound easy when she puts it like that.
The Made for This Moment author reckons anyone can do it, as long as 'you repent and confess to God', which allowed her to denounce masturbation and set herself 'free from the addiction to sexual sin'.
"If sexual sin has been a struggle for you, the first thing that you need to do is you need to repent and confess to God." Prewett told her 39,700 subscribers.
She recommends following in her footsteps and using confession to help repent, as it was 'so huge' for her during her healing process.
She mimicked the stereotypical responses she thinks she might receive from listeners, such as 'Maddi, you just don't get it,' or 'this is something that all of my friends would shame me for'.
"And if that's true, then I would say those aren't real friends, those aren't good friends," Prewett continued. "Because any Christian who is sold out and in love with Jesus knows that no one is above sin. No one.
"It says in God's word, 'we all have fallen short' - every single one of us. We've all fallen short, and it is only by God's grace that we are redeemed, that we are saved and that we can continue to stay set free."
Prewett suggested finding a person who is a part of the Godly community, or failing that just someone you trust before going to them and confessing your so-called 'sexual sins'.
"Don't just like drop the bomb on them," the podcast host laughed.
"Maybe be like, 'Hey, I really want to talk to you about something, there's something that I've been really struggling with and I really need your prayer and I need your wisdom and I just I want to be really honest, this is this has been holding me back from having a life of freedom and from having a life that God intends for me and I really need to share it with you'."
After getting that mouthful out, Prewett then advised people to tell their confidant that they are 'entrusting' the information with them solely and that it should remain private.
She said the person you're informing will be more likely to 'understand the weightiness' of the burden porn and masturbation have on your life if you follow these steps.
She added that it should be 'a friend that you really trust' and she 'would make sure it's not someone you're dating' or a family member, like a parent.
"I'm not saying you can't go on to tell then your parents or tell your siblings, but I do think that there's something powerful about finding a friend who can really really hold you accountable in this." Prewett continued.
"Where you're not going to feel any sort of judgment or like you're going to withhold certain pieces of information, but that you feel like you can tell the whole thing, you can tell every bit of it. They can hold you accountable."
Topics: Religion, Sex and Relationships, TV, US News, Podcast
Olivia Burke