Posted on 01/18/2013 6:56:42 PM PST by Morgana
LATROBE, PA, January 18, 2013, (Cardinal Newman Society) -- Seventy percent of 18-24 year-old males visit porn sites monthly.
That’s not just a frightening number. That’s an epidemic of pornography that is likely going on at college campuses all throughout the country — even Catholic colleges.
Jason King, chair of the theology department at Saint Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, wrote about the accessibility and damage of pornography in his latest piece at Catholic Moral Theology. King summed up the situation well when he wrote that people used to have to exert an effort to view pornography. Now you have to exert an effort to not view it.
King provided further scary statistics about the viewing of pornography and its effects:
The best estimates indicate that 77 percent of Americans view pornography at least once a month. 75-77 percent of males have downloaded porn in their lives. 20 percent of males consciously abstain from viewing pornography. 47 percent of women believe pornography harms relationships while 33 percent of men said the same. 33 percent of all Americans believe that pornography will not harm a relationship. During a six-week experiment the statement, “marriage is an important institution,” was affirmed by 60 percent of men who viewed no pornography during that period, but only 39 percent of those exposed to heavy viewing of pornography during the same period affirmed the same statement.
The best advice King could offer is don’t start viewing pornography, install internet filters, and look to God’s love.
I would probably despair of this situation except for two things. First, practically, the beginning of a solution to this problem is simple: stop (or do not start) viewing pornography. If help is needed with this, there are countless effective and free filters available for routers. This one was recommended to me by two of my tech savvy friends.
Secondly, theological, God made us such that in our hearts we desire much more than what pornography offers; we desire to love and to be loved. This is the heart of the Church’s sexual teaching: that sex should always be life-giving, not destructive, dominating, violent, or commercialized. This is why the metaphor Jesus frequently uses for Heaven is the wedding banquet, friends and family singing, dancing, and eating in the celebration of love. Pornography cannot ultimately compete with this joy for which God made us.
Saint Vincent’s, where King teaches, announced in 2008 that it was placing internet filters on its computer network to block student access to pornography and gambling websites. It was controversial at the time.
You can read Jason King at Catholic Moral Theology.
It's also evidence the other 30% are liars.
77%?????
That’s it?
Well, technically, they stop looking at porn once a month, not including food, potty and inebriation and sleep breaks.
“77%”
And that’s just the people who watch prime time TV. If you add in the ones who visit the hard porn stuff it is 99%. The other one percent are the one’s in the porn movies so technically they are not watching it on TV or internet.
A liar thinks everyone is lying. A porner thinks everyone does porn. Not true.
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What? No videos?
Note to neighbors in closely built communities: We can see you watching porn.
And the remaining 33% lie about it!
TPIWWP
I find that to be hard to believe. If that’s true, or even approaching it, our nation is further gone than I thought.
Porn is nothing more than psychological ‘junk food’. I’ve often found the heavier consumer of porn someone is, the lesser intelligent and shallow they tend to be.
‘From the Glass Lined Tanks of Old Latrobe’...
Not just YOUNG men I don’t think.
I just read through a 3 page thread of men [again] ranting about women, how horrible they are and why they’ll never marry again, etc.
Look how often we have threads with men posting dozens of women in bikinis. Why is Viagra a top selling drug? I sometimes think their ‘wants’ may be unrealistic. They talk of women not ‘keeping themselves up’ but look around at the men you see in stores, or on the streets.
Porn is a corruption of the soul, and the user wants more and more as time goes on.
>>>And the remaining 33% lie about it!<<<
At least a third of humanity seem to be busy making the stuff.
So I hear.
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