Pornography’s Tragic Price

By: American Decency Staff

 

I'm talking about the problem of pornography. Writing for the Baptist Press, (bpnews.net, 5/17/2012) Doug Carlson calls it a "pandemic." "In this digital age, the images are no longer limited to salacious magazines or adult stores. Such content is readily available on the Internet, on smart phones, on cable and satellite TV, in hotels." The problem is, writes Carlson, "No longer do viewers have to actively look for it; it looks for them."

Yes. Pornography is a stalker. One has to be vigilant or you'll inadvertently walk into one of its traps. Perhaps, like me, you've done a search and found images that could only be judged pornographic.

Carlson says that at $13 billion a year, the porn industry piles up more revenue than any of the major sports organizations. Are Americans becoming bigger fans of pornography than of major league sports?

Well, there's nothing "sporting" about how pornography is affecting our youth. As the website, ProtectKids.com points out, exposure to pornography:

• May incite children to act out sexually against other children

• Shapes attitudes and values

• Interferes with a child's development and identity.

 

These effects should not surprise us, considering the powerful grip pornographic images can get on impressionable minds. But reading the stories of young boys who were caught in its snare at the tender ages of 10, 11, and 12 brings these facts home.

One boy said it led him to have sexual intercourse at age 13; another said he started downloading the images and trying out the "weird things" he saw. The 10-year-old boy, now age 14, wrote that it caused him to picture every girl he saw naked.

In an interview in the February issue of World, Donna Rice Hughes, the originator of the ProtectKids.com site, explains how pornographers are seducing kids.

Nine out of 10 kids have seen pornography on the Internet. The pornographers put free pictures and free videos and everything else on the Internet in order to get people to come to their site and get hooked on the material before they ever get charged for it. We have today, in this country, absolutely no regulation with respect to softer-core material.

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