***warning, adult content***
Pornography is everywhere in our world today. I started looking up statistics but quickly realized that it's impossible to measure just how much pornography is on the internet, and how many people access it on a daily basis. Sufficed to say, it's A LOT in both categories.
I have had my own struggles with pornography in the past. I'd say that most young to middle-aged males likely have, and lots of females too. Having come through it, I'd say that I still have to be very careful about what I look at online or on TV, because it's very easy to allow yourself to slip...and then once more...and before you know it your free-falling.
I came across this article that I had to share. It's by a former editor of a racy magazine in the UK. This man had a kid of his own and suddenly realized what he was doing through his job. He quit and instead starting looking into the harmful effects of pornography. His results are startling, especially what he finds with young children. Be warned that the article is a bit graphic, but I think it's important to read and understand - for parents and kids alike. These were a few things that specifically caught my attention:
- that kids were accessing pornography through Facebook
- the age of the kids who had watched porn and things like sodomy (starting at 12)
- this quote from a 19 year old that he interviews - "'Every bit of spare time I have is spent watching porn. It is extreme. I can't hold down a relationship for longer than three weeks. I want porn sex with real girls, but sex with them just isn't as good as the porn." (That last line perfectly illustrates how porn creates a false image in our minds of what sex is...an image that can ruin real sex with your spouse.)
- at the end of the article he says, "We need to get tech-savvy, and as toe-curling as it seems, we are the first generation that will have to talk to our children about porn. We have to tell our kids that pornographic sex is fake and real sex is about love, not lust."
N.B. I used to never talk about my own personal struggles regarding pornography, but then I realized that the more you open up, the more you realize that you're not alone - and you can pray with others, lean on each other, and help each other. As Christians, we too often live as isolated islands when in fact we're supposed to live in community. We are all human, which means we all struggle with the same things...yet for some reason, most of us don't want to admit it.
Pornography is everywhere in our world today. I started looking up statistics but quickly realized that it's impossible to measure just how much pornography is on the internet, and how many people access it on a daily basis. Sufficed to say, it's A LOT in both categories.
I have had my own struggles with pornography in the past. I'd say that most young to middle-aged males likely have, and lots of females too. Having come through it, I'd say that I still have to be very careful about what I look at online or on TV, because it's very easy to allow yourself to slip...and then once more...and before you know it your free-falling.
I came across this article that I had to share. It's by a former editor of a racy magazine in the UK. This man had a kid of his own and suddenly realized what he was doing through his job. He quit and instead starting looking into the harmful effects of pornography. His results are startling, especially what he finds with young children. Be warned that the article is a bit graphic, but I think it's important to read and understand - for parents and kids alike. These were a few things that specifically caught my attention:
- that kids were accessing pornography through Facebook
- the age of the kids who had watched porn and things like sodomy (starting at 12)
- this quote from a 19 year old that he interviews - "'Every bit of spare time I have is spent watching porn. It is extreme. I can't hold down a relationship for longer than three weeks. I want porn sex with real girls, but sex with them just isn't as good as the porn." (That last line perfectly illustrates how porn creates a false image in our minds of what sex is...an image that can ruin real sex with your spouse.)
- at the end of the article he says, "We need to get tech-savvy, and as toe-curling as it seems, we are the first generation that will have to talk to our children about porn. We have to tell our kids that pornographic sex is fake and real sex is about love, not lust."
Here's the link to the article. Give it a read, and take the last couple of lines to heart. We need to do our part.
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