Posted on 04/06/2016 3:48:16 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Time magazine’s cover story this week is about what ubiquitous hardcore pornography is doing to men. I can’t link to it because it’s a subscribers-only piece, but Southern Baptist pastor Denny Burk has a detailed (but not NSFW) rundown of what it reports. The gist of it is that porn is changing the brains of young men, who have been watching it from a young age, such that they are impotent with actual women. Burk, quoting the article:
A growing number of young men are convinced that their sexual responses have been sabotaged because their brains were virtually marinated in porn when they were adolescents. Their generation has consumed explicit content in quantities and varieties never before possible, on devices designed to deliver content swiftly and privately, all at an age when their brains were more plastic—more prone to permanent change—than in later life. These young men feel like unwitting guinea pigs in a largely unmonitored decade-long experiment in sexual conditioning.
More Burk:
But it is precisely here that the picture gets really dark. Pornography has been a ubiquitous fixture in their lives for the better part of a decade. Two dates are important to remember in this discussion. In 2007, broadband internet reaches over 50% of American households. In 2013, smartphone ownership exceeds 50% of the population. That means that at some point around 2007, more Americans than not had access not simply to still images but to free video images of people engaged in sex acts. By 2013, more Americans than not had access to video porn at any time and at any place through their smartphone.
The average age that a young man first encounters pornography is 11-13 years old. That means that countless young men have spent the better part of the last decade with access to moving porn. For many of them, everything they have learned about sex has come from pornography. Their sexual preferences have been shaped by this content.
One more bit from Burk:
One of the most striking aspects of Luscombe’s article, however, is the complete absence of a moral framework. The big debate is whether or not porn use is a “public health crisis.” In other words, the main problem with porn is that keeps men from fornicating with lots of women. That is why the title of the article is “Porn and the Threat to Virility.”
We are at a place in our culture in which sexual morality has been reduced to consent. And that is why Luscombe’s article—even after narrating the devastating consequences of porn use—cannot bring itself to condemn pornography as a moral evil. And that is what is so sad about this article. It documents a real problem in our culture, but it has very little to offer by way of remedy.
I am not being hyperbolic when I call porn use a civilizational calamity. The sexual revolution promised us more sex and more pleasure. It has actually delivered to us a generation of men who think of women as objects to be used and abused for their sexual pleasure. It has not given us men who know what virtue and honor are. It doesn’t teach men to pursue their joy in self-sacrificially loving and being sexually faithful to one woman for life. It teaches young men to use women for sex and then to discard them when they become unwilling or uninteresting. This means that it has given us a generation of young men completely unprepared for marriage and for fatherhood.
Read the whole thing. It’s a very, very important piece.
There you see the attack on the family, down to the neuroscientific level. Brilliantly evil. Think about what you might be setting your son up for by giving him a smartphone. A junior high school principal said to me recently that she invited a specialist in porn addiction to give a talk at her school about this, but parents balked, saying their kids didn’t even know what that was.
Fools.
This is not simply a matter of getting a smartphone out of your kid’s hands. Remember my telling you about the family I know who removed their kids from a school because fifth grade boys in her son’s class were watching hardcore porn on smartphones their parents gave them? The boys were building a pornified culture of boyhood. Fifth graders.
How much do you know about the porn habits of your teenage or adolescent son and his friends? It’s important to find out.
This civilization of ours has a death wish. You see it more and more with each passing day.
This isn't just theoretical or anecdotal. Porn has nearly killed off sex in Japan. I read that shockingly high percentages of young Japanese have no interest in either sex or marriage (LINK) --- except with a virtual or robot partner.
Not doubt that porn is responsible for a lot of things including a deeply twisted sense of sexuality. The other factor that is twisted is a proper vision of marriage and the role of sex in it. Put these two together and you have a cultural and spiritual disaster that will destroy any relationship or prevent one from flourishing.
Can't reproduce?
Sounds like Darwinism at work.
Not to mention, since White women/girls are the gold standard of porn, the hoardes of the world watch it and think they can come over here, or to Europe and rape at will. The pornographers should be rounded up and burned alive. make a video out of it and I’ll watch. Over and over and over
Can I say ‘just duh’?
We will reap the damage done by the porn culture and its acceptance. We probably already have started, but it will get worse.
Yeah. The end of American so-called civilization. Thanks, Darwin!
Nothing new about this, I’m afraid. Porn has been creeping into our culture since the 60s, if not before, and it’s been getting worse and worse, more and more destructive.
Porn is habit-forming, like a drug. It grows on its users, like heroin or pot. And once someone is addicted, it’s very hard to recover.
It’s not just an internet thing. It’s all over the place, including in our children’s schools.
Religion is the only practical answer for a return to marriage and family like they used to be, and I’m afraid most churches these days, whether Catholic or Protestant, are not doing very good jobs of persuading people as they grow up. We can point out the problems, but I’m afraid not much will happen unless we have a great revival, driven by God, like the one in the nineteenth century.
Sadly, some pervert somewhere will masturbate to it.
didn’t weem to have any effect on bill clinton or hillary
sign me up for women’s “porn anonymous”
my name is long john silver
and i am a pornaholic......
hello dong.......
Did either one of them develop into a good spouse or a good parent? And I won’t speculate on Chelsea’s paternity question.
Or John B. Calhoun. Progressivism can't win, because it destroys the civilization it is in. I don't believe we can save this culture anymore. But we can become the seed that builds the next civilization.
This was all planned by our NWO overlords. Tragic how stupid are the sheeple
“...such that they are impotent with actual women.”
Deprived of the ultimate “safe space”.
What a shame.
No, seriously.
I put her out in a town that was so small
You could throw a rock from end to end
A dirt-road Main Street, she walked off in bare feet
It's a shame I won't be passin' through again.
The rot was already with us, decades ago. It seemed innocent enough at the time.
A somewhat memorable 70s song.
I don't think its any coincidence that western men have lower testosterone levels,lower sperm counts, do not want to marry nor have children...
its not a coincidence that so many men are frankly, weenies..
witness the number of white guys beaten up by ferals and there is absolutely no push back...weenies, plain and simple....
and it will get worse as men continue the downward spiral to meaninglessness....
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