The Kansas City Star recently published an article on the effects of pornography on society...the negative effects. With 40 years of clear scientific research, we can say with confidence that porn is harming the actors in the films and the consumers.
Two points are interesting to me. The article refers to the public relations 'department' of the porn industry and how powerful it is. Who are these people and what arguments are they making to refute the evidence? They have made blanket statements such as, "the evidence just isn't there," however no stats or reasonable rebuttals to back up their claim.
Second, the comparison to cigarettes and the denial between the link of smoking and lung cancer fits perfectly. Instead of an in your face consequence such as death from cigarettes, now it's a sort of death of the brain, relationship and love. Male brains are shaped in such a way from pornography that they believe in the rape myth, that women actually like the brutality of it. In my counseling practice, I see broken relationships because the woman is angry and feels inadequate while the man doesn't know how to stop (addiction). There is a link and it needs to be posted as big bold letters like on the side of a cigarette carton: this will cause relationship disturbance and addiction.
The question now is: what are we really looking for as a society? Soft core porn in the past is now nothing, while hard core porn from the past is the new soft core. The increase of tolerance is staggering, as the article will prove. What is this craving that porn can't fill? What is the desire of our heart that porn is missing the mark at?
God, our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
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