Enlightenment

Just a click away... Internet Porn

(by Ben L.)

“Free porn… just a click away!”

Thanks, but we already knew. In fact, 80% to 15 to 17-year-olds have viewed hardcore pornography online. Not to mention that 2.5 billion pornographic emails are sent everyday.

Now, the world’s best kept secret: it’s not really free!

I don’t mean that the porn industry doesn’t gross $57 billion a year (more than the revenue of all professional basketball, football, and baseball organizations combined!) And I’m not talking about lost jobs and huge debt from porn purchases. I’m talking about the bigger price tag on porn.

Your relationships pay. You were designed to enjoy emotional intimacy with one other person. It’s a fantastic part of the human experience. But porn trains you to be intimate with mere images- fake people. It damages your ability to be emotionally intimate with real people, like your present friends or your future spouse.

Physically, intimacy is another huge cost of porn. Consider your future spouse. Contrary to popular belief, porn does not enhance sex. Pornography fills the mind with touched up photos of idealized bodies and perfect smiling faces. These ideal fantasies become unrealistic but powerful standards that no spouse can live up to- it’s a dead end road of disappointment! If you want an incredible wedding night, save your eyes for your future wife.

This relational price tag on porn is enough in itself, but there’s more to pay. Porn is addicting, and addictions have consequences. Those consequences can be large or small. In Ted Bundy’s case, porn addiction helped him turn into a serial killer. That’s the extreme in between like lost jobs, lost sleep and heavy debt.

Finally, porn costs dignity. It degrades the human body and cheapens human value, especially that of women, who are primary objects of pornography. Pornography turns people- both model and viewer- into objects for perverted profit.

Pornography’s price tag is too high. Don’t buy it.