As a Nation, We Are Addicted to Porn.

This is a great article that gives some insight into America's addiction to pornography.  The facts stated, if true, are quite alarming.  My first inclination is to believe them.  Pornography is here to stay...and grow...and fast!  

Used to, one would have to go to a gas station, sneak a magazine off of the rack, peek into its pages with one eye while watching the cashier with the other.  Now...its on our phones.  In Europe, phone porn is a $1.5 billion industry.  Coleman notes that before a person finishes reading his article, those numbers will be outdated.  Again, porn is growing...and fast.

Coleman quotes researchers who have linked porn consumption to criminal activity (not to mention the destruction of the family in the home).  The links to crime are nothing less than horrifying.  Porn is like an itch that only gets more intense as you scratch it.  

  

As one hardcore pornography user put it, “Once you become addicted to it . . . you look for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Like an addiction, 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.”  And as this user was left by pornography, still wanting, he took matters into his own hands.  His name was Ted Bundy.

I will write more on the content of this article at a later time.  But for now, read it for yourself.  There is much to learn.  As Christians, we must understand what is going on here.  And again, it is so much more than, "Man! People are sick, and need to just stop!" 

The sinful heart will stop at nothing to fill its deepest cravings.  At first, the consumption is cordial, polite and even lawful.  Boundaries are often set like, "As long as I don't go this far I will be okay."  But the boundary is soon approached.  The object of affection is within an arms length...on the other side.  And unless this man is met with the gospel, you better believe he will reach and take.  

Consider this stat from the article: "As of Dec 2005, child pornography was estimated to be a $3 billion industry; and users lured in by traditional pornography often progress quickly to these ever more intense forms."

So what do we do?  We better reach [with the gospel] them before they reach our children.

Here is the link to the article again.