Support Your Husband in His Battle Against Visual Temptation

Part of a man’s brain creates an automatic temptation to look at suggestive images.

Clinical studies show the same process happens in a man’s brain when he sees a woman showing off her body. The nucleus accumbens in his brain lights up and he has an automatic, physical temptation to take in that image. But then his thoughts and his willpower kick in and he can decide whether he wants to continue taking in the image or pull his thoughts away. Many men try to honor their wives by forcing their thoughts and eyes away, but as long as the image is staring them in the face, the nucleus accumbens is being triggered. This temptation to look has nothing to do with your relationship or whether he finds you attractive or not; it’s purely a biological temptation that he has to fight.