The idea came to Bunker after what she calls an “avalanche of students” came to her around the same time wanting to talk about pornography. Bunker reached out to Cole, who had shared her testimony previously in the fall at Koinonia. Mawhorter and Thweatt shared their stories with Bunker during that time and said they felt ready to share with others as well. Since then, more students have stepped forward willing to be authentic with the Bethel community.

“I was five years old,” Jenna Rylaarsdam recalls.

She nods her head, slowly remembering how her addiction to pornography began. For Rylaarsdam, it was her family that exposed her first to pornography. She had several family members who were addicted to pornography. It is what she calls a “generational sin” in her family. Pornography provided her with a temporary escape from the isolation and loneliness that she felt in her own life.

“I was probably 12 or 13 years old,” Tyler Meyer said. “It started out as movie scenes on YouTube and there’s always the ‘related clips’ on the side. I was curious at first, but then it led to me going back to those videos when I didn’t want to.”