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Shocking Facts About Porn #5: Porn and the Church

6/21/2016

68% of Christian men and 15% of Christian women say they watch porn at least once a month.

54 percent of pastors said they viewed porn within the past year in a Pastors.com survey

Nearly 20% of the calls received on Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care Line are for help with issues such as pornography and compulsive sexual behavior. And of the 1,351 pastors that Rick Warren’s website, Pastors.com, surveyed on porn use, 54% said they had viewed internet pornography within the last year and 30% of those had visited within the last 30 days.

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Pornography Myths and Facts: Myth #3

2/22/2016

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Author: Minister Grok

In my time as a therapist, I have worked with many who struggle with sexual issues. Whether it is sexual addiction, Sexual abusing, or other devient sexual behaviors; There is always one underlying factor......Pornography. When probing into how each person got entangled by pornography, I hear many of the same reasons to justify their use of porn. Here are a few of the most common reasons:

Myth #3: Pornography is an expression of Woman's Liberation and healthy Sexual expression.

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Shocking Facts About Porn #4 Internet Porn and Teens

11/10/2014

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Roughly two-thirds (67 percent) of young men and one-half (49 percent) of young women agree that viewing pornography is acceptable.

One out of three youth who viewed pornography, viewed the pornography intentionally.

Seven out of ten youth have accidentally come across pornography online.

Youth who look at violent x-rated material are six times more likely to report forcing someone to do something sexual online or in-person versus youth not exposed to x-rated material.

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Shocking Facts About Porn #3 Porn and Youth

9/14/2014

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"20 percent of teens have sent or posted nude or seminude photographs of videos of themselves"

About 1.2 million children are annually exploited through child pornography and prostitution.

Child pornography has become a $3 billion annual industry

93% of boys and 62% of girls are exposed to internet porn before the age of 18

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Shocking Facts About Porn #2

8/31/2014

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Approximately 20% of all internet pornography involves children (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2013)

More than one-third of 16- and 17-year-old boys surveyed said they had intentionally visited X-rated sites in the past year. Among girls the same age, 8 percent had done so. (Wolak, Janis, et al. "Unwanted and Wanted Exposure to Online Pornography in a National Sample of Youth Internet Users." Pediatrics 119 (2007); 247-25.)

The adult-film industry is bigger than ever, making some 6,000 movies a year and grossing more than $4 billion - roughly as much as the National Football League (New York Post, Russell Scott Smith, 9/25/03).

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Shocking Facts about Porn #1

8/24/2014

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Source: Covenant Eyes

"It seems so obvious: If we invent a machine, the first thing we are going to do–after making a profit–is use it to watch porn."

- Damon Brown, Author of Playboy's Greatest Covers