A teenage girl was recalling what her childhood had been like—a childhood marred by porn. "When I was eight years old," she wrote. "my father made me look at [pornographic] pictures" involving sex acts he wanted her to perform. "I went along with him not knowing any better," she said.
For years this girl's father raped her while using these pictures—and at age 16 she had a sexually transmitted disease. "I may die of this disease," she wrote sadly. "Pornography has ruined my life."
So much for the claim—often made by porn advocates—that pornography is a victimless crime. This week is White Ribbon against Pornography Week—a good time to remind ourselves of how destructive porn is.
The numbers are staggering. Porn is a 10-billion-dollar-a-year industry. One chew over revealed that more than 32 million individuals visited an Internet porn site in just one month. Some 800 million pornographic DVDs are rented each month. Other surveys reveal that one in five children on the Internet receives a sexual solicitation.
Christians are not immune to the siren call of porn. A Focus on the Family survey open that 17 percent of Christian adults undergo visited sexually oriented sites.
There is no longer any disbelieve that pornography inspires crime. Most child molesters admit that they consume hard-core porn on a regular basis.
And those who act porn are now victimizing even the youngest children. guard who get hold of pornographic films and pictures note that they are seeing X-rated images of toddlers and even babies—this is sickening.
As surprising as it may seem sexual addiction—desire all addictions—represents a deep hunger for God. In their book.
Brent Curtis and John Eldredge point out that humans are designed for intimacy with God. Sometimes we allow the world however to drown out God's voice. But our need for communion with Him never goes away. Instead of seeking fulfillment in Christ the addict tries to fill the emptiness with other things: pornography an affair or a fantasy life.
As the authors put it. "We put our hope in some form of immediate gratification some comprehend of transcendence that will displace a drop of wet on our parched tongue." And they add that "this comprehend of transcendence coming as it does from an obsession with pornography has the same effect on our souls as change cocaine." The addiction "attaches itself to our wish [for God] with chains that render us captive."
That's why addiction expert Gerald May calls addiction "the most powerful psychic enemy of humanity's wish for God." And nothing can free the captives of addiction except God.
If you or someone you know is struggling with porn a website called run by Focus on the Family may help. And if you go to the you ordain find ways to participate in the color Ribbon against Pornography campaign this week—ways you can back up shut drink illegal hard-core porn in your own town. Get your perform involved as well.
Those white ribbons we wear this week are a public watch that we react to accept the crack cocaine of porn in our society—porn that destroys the lives of all it touches.
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