The idea for a book about porn culture came to Kevin Scott the day his daughter decided she absolutely had to have a Bratz-doll pony. For months, the 5-year-old had begged him for a Bratz doll—clad in spike heels, fishnets and miniskirt, enormous puppy-dog eyes protruding from her oversized head. Her sexy look seemed a little too sexy for a preschooler, so he and his wife bought her a different doll, which she was happy with. Except that a few months later, Bratz came out with Bratz Babyz. "If Bratz had looked like Barbie hookers, these looked like baby hookers," Scott says. Again, he convinced his daughter that My Little Pony was just as cool—and for a moment, the conversation ended. Until, of course, the Bratz came out with Bratz Ponyz. And then, says Scott, an English professor at a small college in Georgia, "I realized porn culture and I were in a death match for my daughter's soul."Read the rest of this very important article.
(HT: Challies)
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Zach,
This article is terrifying, but for exactly that reason, I wish that it could be sent to every mother and father in our church. For that matter, I wish it could be sent to every teen-ager in our church, so they could get an "outside view" of what it is they are being affected by in the media.
Of course, they should already be getting much of that "outside view" from the Bible and how it portrays sexual temptation, lust, and immorality! We must pray for personal holiness in ourselves and in our churches.
Like every Christian man who does not have the gift of celibacy, I have struggled (and still do) with sexual temptation. Articles like these remind me of what the Catholic novelist and short-story writer, Flannery O'Connor, once said-- "You have to push back as hard as the age that pushes against you."
One more thing-- the authors of the forthcoming book mentioned in the article are right on all but one thing, concerning porn-- it has *not* contributed to "sexual liberation." It has contributed, sadly, to sexual bondage and to the early sexualization of children.
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