Part One: The Danger of Reading About Porn
Here are some scary statistics:
- The average age of first exposure to commercial pornography and milf live free cams is 15.
- Over 50% of teenagers between 15-19 say they have had oral sex.
- 42% of guys and 33% of girls say they’ve had intercourse.
- While 27% of teens say they’ve been sexually intimate, only 15% of parents believe their children have gone beyond kissing.
Porn is no longer an industry of driving to the store with the blinders on the windows and the fence around the parking lot. It is easily accessible over the internet. It is easy to find web cams of women and men all over the world. Everytime I get on the computer I am playing with fire. While I may use the internet for some very great things, the internet is full of pornography.
Michael Leahy proposes that we live in a sex addicted society. He isn’t talking about it in loose terms. He believes many people in our world need psychiatric help for the issue. While no scholar has named sex addiction a mental disorder, many estimates have the number of those affected in the US alone at around 20 million. Wow! So why do those stats correlate with porn. Using porn leads to sex addiction says Leahy.
I love Leahy’s 4 step cycle of addiction. I think applies to pornography, sex addiction, and any addiction.
- Preoccupation
- Ritualization
- Compulsive behavior
- Despair
If I’m honest I battle an addiction to 2 things: Web 2.0 (Facebook, YouTube, blogging, etc.) and sports. I have to take serious measures to keep those things in check. What I love about this 4 step process is that it fits any addiction. I can walk through that cycle in every area of my life to see if I am addicted. It certainly isn’t fun, but I know God wants me to only be addicted to Him (hopefully that doesn’t read as cheesy as it sounds).
