The words start to drone into clinical fog. But then she switches to story-telling mode, and it becomes painfully obvious that she's entitled to her issues. The fog starts to lift and some of her listeners start to believe that they, too, should have issues. Laurie Hall, who's pushing 50, has been haunted by pornography for half her life, although most of the time she didn't know it. Now she's on a one-woman crusade to warn anyone who will listen, especially college students, about the dangers of porn and what it does to relationships.
Pornography does more than make little boys blush and grown men smirk.
Laurie and her husband, Jack, have been married for 28 years, but she almost walked out after only 12. One night in 1984, after Jack had come home late again, she packed her bags and headed for the door. Before she opened it, however, she paused, looked around, and saw a Bible lying on a table in the living room, out of place. A committed Christian, she didn't want her marriage to end not for herself, not for her husband, Jack, and certainly not for their two children. The sight of the Bible made her hesitate.