Pornography? What is it?
Pornography is the explicit or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature in a way that elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure. [English Dictionary]
Statistics show that all internet porn traffic
takes place in the 9am to 5pm on workdays.
According to 1DC – a source of global market intelligence, 30% to 40% of
internet use in the workplace is unrelated to business. 21% of all adult content is accessed from
work. Meanwhile 70% of employees
surveyed by NFO worldwide admit to viewing or sending adult oriented e-mail at
work. Pornography is destroying peoples’
life, and their marriages.
In December 2000, the National Coalition to
protect children and families surveyed five Christian campuses on sexual purity
to ascertain what the next generation of believers are doing with regards to
sexual purity: it was deduced that; 48% of males admitted to current porn use. 68% said that they viewed sexually explicit
website at school.
In 1996, Promise Keepers surveyed men at one of their stadium events revealed that over 50% who attended were involved with pornography within one week of the event.
On April 6, 2007, a CNN article by Jason Rovou was published about porn addiction; 70% of Christians admitted to struggling with porn in their daily lines. This is a real problem for religious people. It’s a problem that is affecting the Lord’s church and it seems that our pastors are not preaching about it. ‘I encourage pastors to preach and teach the youth in their church concerning pornography, sex and masturbation’. Someone can go to church and return home to view porn in secret.
Someone has said that the 4A’s of the internet has caused porn to explode with growth. These are: Accessibility, Affordability, Anonymity, and Addiction.
THE COST OF PORNOGRAPHY
In every second $3075.64 is spent on pornography.
28,258 internet users are viewing
pornography every second. In every
second, 372 internet users are typing adult search terms. A new pornographic video is being created in
the US every 39 minutes.
The porn industry brings in more revenue than the
top technology companies combined: Microsoft, google, amazon, ebay, yahoo,
apple, Netflix.
Statistics of 2003 state that these industry
brings in $57 billion per year in world-wide revenue according to
internetfilterviewer.com. $12 billion of
this comes from the sex industry with revenue which is even more than the
combined revenue of abc, CBS, NBC.
In 2003, Barna Research Group conducted a survey
regarding American’s view on pornography:
38% of adults believe it is “morally accepted” to look at pictures of nudity or explicit sexual behavior. 59% of adults believe it is morally acceptable to have sexual thoughts or fantasies. 38% of adults believe that there is nothing wrong with pornography use.
HOW DOES PEOPLE GET USED TO
PORNOGRAPHY
People confirm they were first expose to pornography by seeing a nude picture of a woman. Some say they were exposed to it by a photo of a model in a magazine.
In 2003, the average at which children were
exposed to porn via the internet was 11 years old. [www.healthymind.com]. Also the largest
consumer of internet pornography is the 12 – 17 age group.
Porn addict states “once you become addicted to
it you look for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of
material. You keep craving something
which is harder and gives you a greater sense of excitement until you reach the
point where the pornography only goes so far – that jumping off point where you
begin to think maybe actually doing it will give you that which is just beyond
reading about it and looking at it.
To be safe on the internet, use a porn blocker example safeeyes that block all porn sites and monitor social networking.
Television
The average teenager spends 3 to 4 hours per day
watching TV. 88% of programming contains
some sexual content. 39 million homes
receive “adult channels” in scrambled form.
29 million children face potential exposure to pornographic images.
THE EFFECTS OF PORN
1.
Physical
effect
It makes you want more of it which you can be
privy to be addicted. Many respected
scientist and Psychiatrist have concluded that pornography is an addiction like
alcohol or drug abuse.
How does porn affect your brain?
Whiles watching that sexually explicit content, 3
chemicals are released during the process:
ii) Dopamine: It helps focuses your attention and
energy on pron.
·
It makes you
ignore the negatives and makes your mind weak in the sense that nothing can
happen to you.
·
It triggers
ecstasy or unusual feelings.
ii)
Norepinephrine: It helps you to recall
the slightest detail of that porn image experience. And it seared or embossed in the brain making
it difficult to forget. This is the
reason why most people still remember the several escapades many years ago.
iii)
Oxytoxin: “cuddle chemical” it was first discovered in the brain of mothers who
are holding their new child. It is
released when people embrace, hold hands, kiss or when they have sex – it’s a
bonding chemical. So imagine if you are
bonded to pornographic image; is that serious.
2)
Marital effect:
Sometimes
counsellor’s advice that couple should watch porn together to boost their sex
life - but the idea that pornography is good for marriage is bad. It has a devastating effect on marriage in
the long run.
Pornography
desensitize the viewer on their own spouse so viewing it makes you to see the
imperfection of your partner because these porn stars are very beautiful, slim
and good in shape. So in the end your
spouse will think of finding someone else that is sexy like the porn stars.
ii)
It hurt the self-esteem on the spouse.
In marriage relationship, it’s crushing the wife that she couldn’t
satisfy her husband sexually so she begin to ask questions about herself…This
is the point where self-doubt and low self-esteem set in. This intend create a wall between herself and
her husband.
So
if you hear voices that porn is good for marriage, know that it is the devil
talking.
3)
Financial effect:
12
billion is spent annually on the sex industry every year in the US. So where is the money coming from? The money is coming bank account, savings and
investment from those who buy the CDs or Pay to watch it online. Gradually Pornography begins to suck your
money little by little and before you realize you already broke.
ii)
It is estimated that 5 billion work hours are lost to cyber porn in the US each
year.
Nearly
1 out of 3 companies has terminated an employee for inappropriate web use. Business week conducted a survey and found
out that 44% of US workers with an internet connection admitted to accessing an
X rated website at work in the month of March 2004.
4)
Spiritual effect:
It
put a war between you and God. When a person is engage in pornography, it put a
war between them and God. [Psalm
66:18] Your prayer, worship and offering
won’t please God because you are not holy.
Pornography makes you dirty in the spirit.
INCREDIBLE
PRINCE
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