Pornography accounts for 37 percent of all Internet traffic – Thirty-eight when you are on it.
Increasingly, porn stars are coming out to warn the public that hey, getting ideas about sex from porn products may not be that particularly healthy for your relationship.
All this porn watching adds up to an overwhelmingly consistent claim from the consumers themselves: Porn users are saying that what they wanted from porn—the pleasure and fulfillment of sex—they’ve now lost completely.
People watched 4,392,486,580 hours of porn on PornHub in 2015. Just to put that in perspective, that means that in one year, people around the world spent 501,425 years watching pornography—on one porn site.
On PornHub, people watched 87,849,731,608 porn videos. As the porn site hastened to point out, that’s 12 porn videos viewed for every single person on the planet.
Studies like this are very important—not because we don’t already know that pornography is creating a violent new ideology of sex, but because the porn industry is constantly trumpeting completely useless and misleading claims.
The latest stats, available in a report called The Porn Phenomenon by the Barna Group, reveal that the porn epidemic is escalating.
Earlier in the year, Josh McDowell who commissioned the research revealed that “Of young adults 18-24 years old, 76 percent actively – and these are Christians – actively seek out porn.”
Yes, the Ethics and integrity ministry has an agenda set, however pornography isn’t just created by the porn industry anymore, with 62% of teens saying they have received nude images, while 40% have sent a nude image, usually to a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Additionally, Porn is now not just a male issue, with 33% of females aged 13-24 using porn regularly.
Is the church currently ill equipped to deal with this epidemic. How many Pastors say that they have a program at their church to help those struggling with pornography?
It’s time for us to stop underestimating the porn problem. If we care about everyone in our society, we’ll start treating pornography like the cultural cancer it is.
No more “boys will be boys.” No more “it’s a harmless sexual outlet.”
We need to take this seriously, or our churches will drown in a sea of filth right along with the rest of the culture.
marvin@ugchristiannews.com
