Getting Serious About Pornography

Tim Challies is a blogger/author that I enjoy reading daily. In between managing the blogs he writes and other various jobs, he usually makes time to put out a daily post with links to stories that he feels are worth reading about.

Today he put a link to an online article entitled Getting Serious About Pornography.

I recently had a few posts about this subject and thought I would pass this on to those who may have read them. Tim says it best in his description of this article...

"The article from National Review looks at our porn problem. While Christians have been saying many of these things for a long time, it is good to see greater mainstream acceptance of the devastation caused by pornography."

My prayers go out to all those hurting because of pornography and it's effects. Having learned from my own mistakes in life I know that it was only the Lord's grace and mercy keeping me safe and nothing of my own will. I am extremely encouraged by this mainstream article and pray that many others will realize their own sins and seek the Lord Jesus Christ for His Saving Grace!

Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man’s perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it produces more annual revenue — $97 billion worldwide in 2006 — than all of the leading technology companies combined. Consider a narcotic so insidious that it evades serious scientific study and legislative action for decades, thriving instead under the ever-expanding banner of the First Amendment.

According to an online statistics firm, an estimated 40 million people use this drug on a regular basis. It doesn’t come in pill form. It can’t be smoked, injected, or snorted. And yet neurological data suggest its effects on the brain are strikingly similar to those of synthetic drugs. Indeed, two authorities on the neurochemistry of addiction, Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth, claim it is the ability of this drug to influence all three pleasure systems in the brain — arousal, satiation, and fantasy — that makes it “the pièce de résistance among the addictions.”

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