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Pornography is Wrong.

Please note the following is for school. NO religious refrences were made do to the fact that I had to have 100% scientific research to back it up. It's still a good read though!


Pornography is the viewing and/or hearing of sexual stimulus. Porn is at the arrowhead of our society’s motto of, “If it feels good, do it.” Pornography, to me, is the same thing as rape or fornication. We have become so technologically advance as a culture, that someone can view this vile substance in the privacy of their home, taking away all senses of guilt and remorse for doing so. I personally believe that pornography should be banned, and any who seek it out, make it, or distribute it should be prosecuted
Pornography should be banned because it is not just an American issue, but a global one. America is fourth in the “porn-revenue” scale. China, South Korea, and Japan have us beat, but America alone spends twenty-seven billion dollars every year on porn. An average porn site gets seventy-five billion visitors a day, and porn sites make up 12% of the internet, totaling in at a whopping four million web site, which is almost double from 2003. Porn is not just something that needs to be overlooked, but it is a global addiction.
Drug dealers are always looked upon negatively in our society, yet the people who sell pornography are praised instead of prosecuted. I often see young girls running around with playboy bunny logos on their shirts. The average age for first time viewers is eleven years old. I do not believe that any parent wants there eleven year old to be targeted by porn, but porn industry mission-statements have found that they wish to catch younger viewers. They know if they get them at such a young age, they will be hooked for life. The average age for addiction is thirty-five through forty-nine years of age. Testimonies of men who came clean about this addiction, tell about how difficult it was. Most state that “I found myself drawn to it, at first when no one was looking so as not to ruin my reputation. By senior year, I gave up pretending and convinced myself that looking at porn was not wrong. This was not by some theological revelation; it was because I got tired of having to constantly confess when I fell.” It is not the porn itself that is addicting, but it is the chemicals that are released in your brain while viewing porn that is addictive. It is scientifically proven that these endorphins are 10 times more addictive than heroine and cigarettes. Also, due to the constant transformation of information in that one pathway in the brain, it has been found that the impulses that are sent by the brain can cause tunnels or tracks to form in your brain, making you latterly one tracked. Every rapist started out just being addicted to porn, but after a while it wasn’t enough to sate their vicious apatite. I believe we all know what happens next.
Most people wonder why pornography has such a negative standing with me personally, it is because I have had a run in with this daemon. I lost four years of my life addicted to pornography. For me it started off innocently enough, some friends were passing around a magazine on the bus, and I unfortunately saw it. It was not until months later that my curiosity spiked and I searched for porn on our un-filtered home computer. As soon as it popped up I immediately close it, but it was too late, those images grabbed me. I started out just looking at it about once a month, then it went to once a week, finally once I was able to get my own computer in my room, it went to every day. I spiraled down along and terrible road. Eventually my parent’s fount out about my addiction, and I do believe that them finding out was the only thing that saved me. I eventually came out of my addiction after many years of “success then relapse.” I just didn’t feel guilty and used, but I lost my reputation of being a holy young man, and it took a very long time to get that reputation back.
I pray that we as a people would see porn for what it really is; is it a cancer that has grown into our world as a whole, and it needs to be removed from our culture. Imagine, if pornography has grown in such a great rate just in the past few years, imagine what will occur in another ten. Let’s not condemn our children to the same fate that we have been condemned to.

posted by Shadrach Stand @ 6:56 AM