A teenage girl was recalling what her childhood had been desire—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 exceed," she said.
For years this girl's create 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 color Ribbon against Pornography Week—a good time to inform ourselves of how destructive porn is.
The numbers are staggering. Porn is a 10-billion-dollar-a-year industry. One study 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 poll open that 17 percent of Christian adults have visited sexually oriented sites.
There is no longer any doubt that pornography inspires crime. Most child molesters adjudge that they eat hard-core porn on a regular basis.
And those who create porn are now victimizing even the youngest children. Police who seize pornographic films and pictures say 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 ache for God. In their book.
Brent Curtis and John Eldredge inform out that humans are designed for intimacy with God. Sometimes we allow the world however to cover 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 conceive of life.
As the authors put it. "We put our hope in some create of immediate gratification some taste of transcendence that ordain place a drop of water on our parched tongue." And they add that "this taste of transcendence coming as it does from an obsession with pornography has the same effect on our souls as crack cocaine." The addiction "attaches itself to our desire [for God] with chains that render us captive."
That's why addiction expert Gerald May calls addiction "the most.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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