For several years there were multiple, daily, obviously pornographic links to websites in my 'junkmail.' Not wishing to be disgusted or offended, I deleted them all. I just noticed that for several months now, I haven't been bothered by this.
Recently two speakers I've heard have mentioned disturbing, tragic, sickening facts about how widespread internet pornography is currently. Plus, today I did a slight amount of research myself about this problem.
#1. Internet Pornography earns 69% of money on pay-for-view sites.
#2. A google search on the website "Huffington Post" today revealed: "The Internet is for porn. We all know that, but until now we may not have realized to what extent porn dominated the Internet. According to this infographic by new porn website ---------, porn takes up a huge percentage of Internet bandwidth. In fact, 30% of all data transferred across the Internet is porn. . . one of the larger video porn sites, streams six times the bandwidth as Hulu."
#3. Youth, both male and female, find internet pornography more intoxicating than heroin!
#4. 70% of all men & 30% of all women view internet pornography regularly.
#5. Estimated monthly usage, in millions, by popular websites: Amazon.com: 110m, Twitter: 160m,
all porn sites: 450m.
#6. 2/3rd of HR professionals have found porn on employees' computers.
When I was working, we were advised to remember to shut down all the computers so housekeeping staff wouldn't use them for porn and we would be shocked in the morning when we returned. We heard of one employee who actually saw his boss with porn on his computer. In orientation, the employee heard a Human Resources rep say that employees who saw anything wrong going on should inform their boss. So the faithful (and naive) employee reported this to his boss's boss. We knew exactly what would happen: it didn't take long for his boss to find a lame excuse to fire him.
At the University of Montreal, a professor, Dr. Simon Lajeunesse, wanted to do research on pornography use by men in their twenties. He first had to find a control group of men who had never used pornography. He could not find one man!
First, I find it sad, actually pathetic, that so many need this self-stimulation to satisfy themselves. A person who heavily engages in viewing pornography obviously has given up on finding and nurturing a real, wholesome relationship that would be healthy and ultimately very fulfilling. What a pity!
Some of those who are addicted to internet pornography (and I don't use the word, 'addicted' lightly) are married. They spend hours and hours on this to the exclusion of time they could be spending with their families. This distances spouses and no doubt contributes to divorces.
Secondly, all these images exploit (chiefly) young women. It is demeaning to be used just for your body. No normal person seeks this. We all want to be loved for who we are!
I really don't want to explore the extent of child pornography. I just don't have the heart. It is illegal, fortunately, at this point. But it is just a short step away. There are those who want children to have the legal 'right' to engage in all sexual activities that adults do (and to have all laws protecting children from adults struck down). We need to not let this slip by us!
If you have minor children, I hope you monitor their internet use, including on their phones. Of course, they won't like it! So what? You wouldn't let them eat garbage or poison, would you? Stomachs can be pumped but brains can't! Stand up and be a Real Parent! It undoubtedly also would help this problem if we would be examples of modesty in dress and language (and behavior, of course).
Lord God, we each are only ONE person. This problem is so big that we feel overwhelmed and ineffective. But we are ONE person. If we act according to your plans, for good and right causes, that helps promote right behaviors in others. Please help us all, we pray, stand up and be strong when we need to stand up and be strong!! We need to do this not only for ourselves, but for our Young Ones and for you, Lord!
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