Flood of pornography breaching the church

GRAPEVINE, Texas-Divorce lawyers are noting its increasing influence.In Great Britain,it's blamed for a 20 percent jump in sexual assaults perpetrated by kids as young as 11.In the United States, the adult film industry sees it as a $13 billion a year business-more money than mainstream Hollywood generates.The numbers are staggering: up to 45 million "unique" users visited adult websites in a recent month, as tracked by Nielsen Net Ratings.With the advent of wireless handheld devices, porn is accessible via mobile phones and similar devices."Certainly, this is going to make it easier to view porn in more places than ever," Pamela Paul, author of "Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families," told USA Today."The flood of pornography in our culture has desensitized society and has contributed to the fact that our nation is wandering aimlessly in dangerous, uncharted territory," Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in a statement e-mailed to the Southern Baptist TEXAN.That flood has entered the church doors, leaving anecdotal and documented evidence that families and churches are being damaged, mostly by Christian men-some of whom are ministers-who succumb to what Land calls a cheap imitation of God-designed sex."Sexuality is a far bigger and more troubling issue in the church than any other moral issue," Land said.The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity reports that an estimated 2 million Internet users are addicted to pornography. Christian men are among them.In an August 2000 survey of its readership by Christianity Today magazine, 36 percent of laymen who responded had visited a sexually explicit Internet site, of which 44 percent visited such sites "a few times" in the past year.Additionally, the six-year-old research showed that 51 percent of pastors admitted pornography was a possible temptation, 37 percent said porn is a struggle and 33 percent had viewed Internet pornography at least once a year...
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