I was a teen in the 1960’s. That is supposedly when America discovered free love, but I suspect the so-called Sexual Revolution has more to do with the American mass media using sex to sell merchandise and the absence of Godly instruction for young people.
At the beginning of the 1960’s, pornography was difficult to find. Playboy Magazine, started in 1953 with a Centerfold of Marilyn Monroe was out there, but the Internet did not exist. Today we rate Playboy as soft porn. Then? I don’t think I understood the distinction between soft porn and hard porn until Hustler Magazine was introduced in the 1970’s.
Because of the Internet, we now speak of addiction to pornography. Hence, parents have what we can rightly think of as something of a new problem. Parents need to teach their children to discipline their viewing habits on the Internet.
With all schools closed, kids have lots of free time on their hands. Electronics are their favorite pastime, especially when they’re not allowed to congregate for sports or other group activities.
Many parents, on the other hand, either are teleworking or doing necessary things around the house, thus increasing the time kids are alone on their computers, phones or tablets.
That, according to Donna Rice Hughes, CEO of “Enough is Enough” (www.enough.org), the anti-pornography nonprofit, opens the door for kids to access hard porn on the internet. For instance, Pornhub hosts content that shows women and children, victims of sex trafficking, being raped and exploited. Right in their own homes, kids can view sexual assault, sexual violence, anal sex and more at the hands of on-line porn dealers!
Hughes went on to say that kids as young as 10 make up 25% of porn users in the under-18…
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Tom,
Your post reminded me of this Bible verse parents should consider.
“And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.” (Matthew 5:30)
Parents should know how vulnerable (susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm or impressionable (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impressionable ) children are.
At the very least, parents need to “cut off” access to porn on their children’s phones: I believe most internet services have this choice available.
Regards and good will blogging.
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