The All-Pervasive Poison of Pornography

Walt Mueller:

A youth worker friend recently told me that he no longer looks at his middle school boys and asks them if they are struggling with pornography. Rather, he looks at them and tells them that he KNOWS they are struggling with pornography. Never has a kid challenged his assumption.

As I've continued on in my work in the area of youth culture and digital kids, I'm increasingly convinced that 1) this problem is only increasing, and 2) we need to be aggressive and proactive in shaping responses that are prophetic, preventive, and redemptive. The immediate and long-term fallout is going to be beyond anything we can dream or imagine.

If you are a youth worker, parent, pastor, teacher. . . or just someone who realizes how vulnerable both you and the kids you know are to this stuff, let me point you to three of the best resources I know. Consider this a starting point. . .

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When I was a kid in the 80's, access to pornography for me was quite difficult.  I remember my buddy's dad had some Playboys laying around the house that we would look through sometimes.  But there was always the fear of getting caught.  It had to be quick and discrete.

We also discovered that my neighbor right next door had boxes of Playboys stored in the garage behind his house.  We would sometimes sneak over there and pull one or two out and go hide in the bushes and look at them.  It was a rush because of the images that were forbidden fruit but also because of the barriers that had to be overcome to view it.

There is are no barriers anymore.  It's not the 1980's anymore.  The world has never seen the dissemination of pornography as it currently stands today.  This is new and it will have disastrous consequences in generations to come.  It's not hard to figure out.

Can you feel the seismic shifts that are taking place right now under our feet due to a whole generations of children and teens who are being raised with immediate and unhindered access to the darkest of the dark when it comes to sexual perversion?  There are no obstacles anymore.  It's way too easy.  The pervasive poison of pornography is infecting their minds and who can blame them?  It's just one click away!   They don't know what they are doing.  We don't know what we are doing. This should cause us to tremble, pray, be sobered, and speak the light of God's truth.  It has to be a priority.

This is a different world now.  One in which sexual dysfunction, abuse, and desperation is going to continue to increase because of unhindered access to porn.  You can't drink the sludge of lies and expect to have your thirst quenched.  That continual thirst will eventually destroy you as it drives you to endlessly chase your tail in the pursuit of a real drink.

The church has to be salt and light in this area.  Are you addressing it?  This book would be a great place to start.