Every year, on just video pornography alone, American’s spend 4 billion dollars, which makes the video industry larger than the N.F.L., the N.B.A. or Major League Baseball. And that’s before you include internet web sites, porn networks and pay-per-view movies—which reach between 10 billion and 14 billion annually.
Child porn revenues are continuing to climb higher and higher, currently bringing in 3 billion dollars a year. 40% of marriages will continue to end, due to sexual addictions. A study done by the UCLA showed that 51% of male students who were exposed to violent porn indicated a likelihood of raping a woman if they could get away with it (Morality in Media).
When brain scans were taken of both pornography and heroin users, the brains looked almost identical, and some scientists believe that pornography is more addicting than heroin. Why? Because the pornography addict’s “drug” never completely washes out of his or her system, instead he has countless, sometimes hundreds of images that he can flip and pull from his brain any time he likes.
FBI, reports the biggest similarity among serial killers is their use of hardcore pornography (Girls Against Pornography, 2008). According to his own words, when interviewed by Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family, Ted Bundy believed his descent into the horrible pit of sexual assault and murder was fueled by an addiction to violent obscenity--pornography. Bundy said that every man he met in the prison system who had been motivated to commit a violent crime was addicted to pornography and he agreed with FBI findings, that one common interest in serial killers is pornography (Focus on the Family).
In preparation for a recent interview with Glenn Beck, Dr. Dobson said, “Pornography has been found in the possession of almost every killer where sex was the motivation, including two of the most notorious serial killers of the last two decades: Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway and BTK Killer Dennis Rader” (Focus on the Family, 2009).
According to Roger Young, retired FBI, pornography fuels human trafficking, and is often tied to arson, bribery, conspiracy, domestic terrorism, drugs, extortion, jury tampering, kidnapping, mail fraud, money laundering, murder, obstruction of justice, prostitution, public corruption, racketerring, rape, robbery, sexual assault, tax evasion, and witness intimidation.
Even Dr. Phil is concerned about the dangers of pornography in our society. Dr. Phil strongly believes that viewing internet pornography or engaging in cybersex is “cheating,” and
just a short step from physically cheating on one’s spouse or partner. Dr. Phil states: “She’s demeaning herself, debasing herself, humiliating herself and she’s being exploited by people
who are funded by you. It’s a sick, demented, twisted world. It’s not healthy, it’s not natural and it’s not normal” (Dr. Phil’s Answer, 2009). Dr. Phil also clearly states that people who are viewers of pornography are living in a fantasy world instead of reality.
What’s wrong with a fantasy world? When a fantasy world starts interfering with reality, daily obligations, duties, marriages, and is linked to criminals, psychopaths, sociopaths, serial killers, and is responsible for the multi-billion dollar child-pornography industry and child molestation and abuse, a fantasy world, is not okay.
Dr. Dana Putnam, a psychologist in San Luis Obispo, Calif., says: “Once people get hooked on cybersex, they tend to put themselves at risk and do things they wouldn't ordinarily do" (Brody, J. E., 2000).
To learn more about the dangers of pornography addiction, or to find direction for getting help, visit GAP (Girls Against Porn) at http://www.girlsagainstporn.com/
References:
Brody, J. E. (2000). Cybersex Gives Birth to a Psychological Disorder. The New York Times on
the Web. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/051600hth-behavior-
cybersex.html
Dr. Phil’s Answer (2009) Retrieved on February 18, 2009 from
http://drphil.com/articles/article/54/
Focus on the Family. (2009) Retrieved on February 18, 2009 from
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/
Girls Against Porn. http://www.girlsagainstporn.com/
Morality and Media. http://www.moralityandmedia.com/
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