Porn, Perversion, and the Power of Shame Feat. Kendra King

In Season 9, Episode 8 of PSA: The Mental Health Podcast, Izzy Baker sits down with Kendra King, LCSW-A — a licensed therapist, Christian sex addiction specialist, and founder of The Healing Heart Center — for one of the most unfiltered and necessary conversations of the season. This episode tackles the emotional, spiritual, and cultural consequences of porn addiction, hypersexuality, and betrayal trauma, particularly in the lives of men. Opening with the viral meme, “Do NOT press play. Do NOT watch that porn video today,” the conversation unfolds into a sobering exploration of the damage that normalized perversion has caused in this generation.
Kendra shares her personal journey into sex and porn addiction therapy, why she launched The Healing Heart Center, and how today’s culture has traded intimacy for performance.

She and Izzy discuss how pornography rewires the brain, why erectile dysfunction is becoming more common, and how hypersexual behavior often masks unhealed trauma. They go even deeper, addressing betrayal trauma from the perspective of partners, and calling out the emotional numbness that many men have accepted as normal. The episode also questions whether Christian men can truly heal without confronting shame, and why the church’s silence around these topics has made things worse, not better. 

Kendra doesn’t shy away from hard truths. She calls out the rise of OnlyFans, the celebration of polyamory, and the way society has equated sex with self-worth. But she also offers hope, reminding listeners that shame — when grounded in grace and truth — can be the start of real healing.

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