If some churches turn a blind eye toward men’s sexual addiction, then they will be deaf, dumb, and blind when it comes to the sexual addiction of women in the pews.

No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Shame introduces us to real women who on Sundays sit in church pews or teach Sunday school but during the week writhe in the net of a vice they’re afraid to name. For example: Anita’s thrill comes from sunbathing naked as telephone repairmen watch her. Virginia stops her affair “437 times,” unable to “stay stopped.” A week after her husband gives her a computer for Christmas, all Brenda can think about is finding porn on the Internet.

It’s sin, it’s a problem, and it’s just one more thing for the church to ignore.  Do you know any women with this kind of problem?

While we’re enjoying the public stoning of a powerful man for his very public sin, we might reflect on mea culpa of sexuality in the church.  One journalist tells the story of Operation Integrity and its founder David Zailer, who teaches Christian men to form, for lack of a better phrase, sexual accountability groups.  One meeting included the following men:

Kevin, 53, a real-estate agent caught by his wife looking at Internet porn before a Sunday morning church service.

Tommy, 35, a political consultant who spent more than three years participating in mate-swapping on Saturday nights, and regularly sitting in church on Sunday mornings.

Nelson, 38, a self-employed businessman discovered by his girlfriend carrying on an emotional relationship in cyberspace.

Evan, 43, a building contractor who claims to have had sexual intercourse with more than 1,000 women.

Another related article also mentions how when one congregant approached his pastor about starting this kind of group, the pastor said no.  Too hot to handle.  Pastors like that must know, and want to suppress, the extent of the problem.