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by Anonymous

Stand up for your rights. Keep the Internet free!

There's plenty of pornography on the net. Even though much of it is advertised as 'free' consumers must beware of hidden costs!

The Cost Of Pornography

Your Freedom

Do you have the freedom to view or not view whatever you want? Can you stop anytime?

Pornography consumption can be as 'mood altering' and addictive as narcotics. [A study by Richard Drake, assistant professor at Brigham Young University College of Nursing]

By masturbating while viewing pornography an individual makes the experience very rewarding. Even animals will repeat something that brings them a positive reward. The more the porn viewing is reinforced(rewarded) through masturbation, the more the individual will want to look at porn and the greater the likelihood of addiction. [Cline, Victor. "Cyber Secrets: The Problem of Pornography." <http://www.byubroadcasting.org/secrets/>. February, 2001.]

Psychologist, Dr Cline states, "In my experience as a sexual therapist, any individual who regularly masturbates to pornography is at risk of becoming, in time, a sexual addict." [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

Once addicted, whether to just the pornography or to the later pattern of acting out, they really loose their free agency. It is like a drug addiction. They cannot stop the pattern of their behavior no matter how high the risk it is for them or how terrible the price or how awful the consequences. [Cline, Victor. "Cyber Secrets: The Problem of Pornography." <http://www.byubroadcasting.org/secrets/>. February, 2001.]

Can you see this pattern beginning in your own life? Have you already lost your free will to pornography?

Your Sexual Satisfaction

Are you sexually satisfied?

With the passage of time, the addicted person required rougher, more explicit, more deviant and 'kinky' kinds of sexual materials to get their 'highs' and 'sexual turn-ons'. It was reminiscent of individuals afflicted with drug addictions. Over time there is nearly always an increasing need for more of the stimulant to get the same initial effect. [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

Once a person is conditioned to become aroused through pornography the result to the individual is that it becomes difficult for the person to seek out relations with appropriate persons. [Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., The Influence of Pornography on Sexual Development: Three Case Histories, IX Family Therapy 3, 1982, pg. 265.]

As a result (of viewing pornography), a great number of people acquire faulty information and expectations that can impair their sexual enjoyment and adequacy. [Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life (1992). Eds. Carson, R.C., & Butcher, J.N. "Sexual disorders and variants," HarperCollins:New Yourk, p.346.]

Why torture yourself with visual materials that can never truly satisfy? Porn, itself, will steal the satisfaction that you could have had with a real-life partner.

Your Perspective and Good Judgement

Have your opinions about pornography and about the opposite sex changed, over time, since you started with pornography?

Dr. Cline continues about the slippery slope of porn addiction, "The third phase was desensitization. Materials (in books, magazines, or films/videos) which was originally perceived as shocking, taboo-breaking, illegal, repulsive, or immoral, in time, came to be seen as common place. The sexual activity depicted in the pornography (no matter how anti-social or deviant) became legitimized. There was a increasing sense that "everybody does it" and this gave them permission to also do it, even though the activity was possibly illegal and contrary to previous moral beliefs and personal standards." [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

As a man repeatedly masturbates to a vivid sexual fantasy as his exclusive [or primary] outlet the pleasurable experiences endow the deviant fantasy (rape, molesting children, injuring one's partner while having sex, etc.) with increasing erotic value. The orgasm experienced then provides the critical reinforcing event for the conditioning of the fantasy preceding or accompanying the act. [McGuire, R.J., et al., "Sexual Deviation as Conditioned Behavior," Behavior Research and Therapy, 1965, vol 2, p. 185]

Conscience and constraint are diminished or turned off. They get hardened. They loose compassion. Nothing bothers them. Viewing extremes of sexual pathology becomes merely titillating. In time, they become incapable of understanding the deviance and the inappropriateness of the material they lust after. [Cline, Victor. "Cyber Secrets: The Problem of Pornography." <http://www.byubroadcasting.org/secrets/>. February, 2001.]

Will you entrust your yourself to porn? And allow yourself to be lead down this dangerous, deviant path?

Your Marriage

Do you want happily ever after?

Dr. Cline explains about porn addicts that, "as some get older, they think that marriage will solve the problem and cure the addiction. But this doesn't happen no matter how affectionate their wife is. The pornography addiction still persists, fueled by fantasies in a different part of the brain." [Cline, Victor. "Cyber Secrets: The Problem of Pornography." <http://www.byubroadcasting.org/secrets/>. February, 2001.]

Dr Cline explains the effect of porn on those already married, "In my clinical experience the major consequence of being addicted to pornography is the disturbance of the fragile bonds of the intimate family and marital relationships. This is where the most grievous pain, damage and sorrow occur. There is repeatedly an interference with or even destruction of healthy love and sexual relationships with long-term bonded partners." [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

A frequent side effect is that it also dramatically reduces their capacity to love. Their sexual side becomes, in a sense, dehumanized. Many of them develop an 'alien ego state' (or dark side) whose core is antisocial lust devoid of most values. [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

Logically, why would you choose images and fantasy over a real, flesh and blood, person, who loves you?

Your Peace

Do you have joy and peace in your heart?

I don't think I really need to put any quotes here. You know how you feel. How do you feel after your viewing experiences? There are things that feel good in the moment, but can never bring true happiness.

Would you choose momentary pleasure over life-long joy and eternal peace?

Your Family

Are you a good father?

More sophisticated analysis reveals that men who had purchased pornographic materials in the past year had significantly lower marital, fathering and family-life satisfaction when compared to those who had not purchased pornographic materials in the past year. [National Center for Fathering]

Looking at porn can damage the viewer's family relationships...Porn may also inspire the viewer to explore incest, which is a common porn theme. ["So What's So Bad About Pornography?" <http://www.porn-free.org/>.]

Dr. Bryant comments, "If the values which permeate the content of most hardcore pornography are examined, what is found is an almost total suspension of the sorts of moral judgment that have been espoused in the value systems of most civilized cultures. Forget trust. Forget family. Forget commitment. Forget love. [ Bryant, Jennings. A study reported to the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. 1986]

Forget family?

Your Job

Are you risking your job to view pornography?

Dr. Mark Schwartz says, "Sex on the Net is like heroin, it grabs them and takes over their lives. And it's very difficult to treat because the people affected don't want to give it up. Cybersex compulsives can become so involved with their online activities that they ignore their partners and children and risk their jobs. [Schwartz, Mark. Masters & Johnson Institute, St. Louis.]

Looking at porn at work could damage the viewer's reputation, decrease his productivity and lead to job loss. It could also inspire unhealthy and/or inappropriate relationships with co-workers. ["So What's So Bad About Pornography?" <http://www.porn-free.org/>.]

Their judgment is affected in the workplace and they do things that their female co-workers call sexual harassment. As their illness escalates they lose the ability to discriminate between what is appropriate and what may send them to jail. [Cline, Victor. "Cyber Secrets: The Problem of Pornography." <http://www.byubroadcasting.org/secrets/>. February, 2001.]

More than 60 percent of companies have disciplined - and more than 30 percent have terminated employees for inappropriate use of the Internet. [The Center for Internet Studies <http://www.n2h2.com/>.]

What are you risking to view pornography?

Women

There has been so much research done in this area.

In FBI research of 36 serial murderers, 81% (29) reported pornography as one of their highest sexual interests. In 1983 Dr. William Marshall found that 86% of rapists admitted regular use of pornography, with 57% admitting actual imitation of pornographic scenes in the commission of a sex crime. Michigan State Police Lieutenant Darrell H. Pope researched more than 48,000 sex crimes between 1956-1979. In 42% of the cases, police indicated that pornography was used just prior to or during the act of sexual assault. [Benson, Rusty. "Vile Passions". AFA Journal. August 2002.]

Serial killer Ted Bundy attributed his criminal record to the Playboy magazines he collected in the 1950s as a 12-year-old boy. They juxtaposed sex and violence and fostered an unnatural desire to kill women for sexual pleasure. [Concerned Women for America. "Pornography: Poison of the Mind and Heart". <www.cwfa.org/main.asp>. 1998.]

Research has found that sexually violent depictions led to: *Aggression against women under laboratory test conditions. *Significant increases by college males in the acceptance of rape myth (no really means yes) and of sexual violence towards women *Seeing the rape victim as more responsible for the assault, with the perpetrators absolved and viewed less negatively. *More aggressive sexual fantasies [Watson, Bruce and Rae Welck, Shyla. "Just Harmless fun?". <http://www.enough.org/>. 2000.]

A 1989 review of a series of studies of "common" pornography found that its consumption led to insensitivity towards victims of sexual violence, trivialization of rape as a criminal offense, trivialization of sexual child abuse as a criminal offense, increased belief that lack of sexual activity leads to health risks and increased acceptance of pre- and extra-marital sexuality. The study noted that "habitual male consumers of common pornography appear to be at greater risk of becoming sexually callous" toward female sexuality and concerns. [Zillmann, D. (1989). "Effects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography," In Zillman & Bryant (Ed.), Pornography: Research Advances and Policy Considerations. p. 155.]

And what about the porn 'stars'?

For eight years, Jackie (not her real name) lived a sexually promiscuous lifestyle as a Playboy Bunny, frequently visiting Hugh Hefner's mansion. During that time she became suicidal. Jackie confessed that the Playboy magazines she saw in her home as a child gave her a "distorted image of sexuality." "It enticed me to throw aside my Judeo-Christian ethic . . . and to practice recreational sex with no commitments," Jackie said. Many "bunnies" used abortion as birth control. And one was forced to have "her reproductive organs removed because of venereal disease." Jackie sees the rise in rape, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases as a result of the Playboy philosophy. "It took me close to 20 years," she said, "to undo what was done to me in pornography." [Concerned Women for America. "Pornography: Poison of the Mind and Heart". <www.cwfa.org/main.asp>. 1998.]

During the early 70s, after the filming of the movie Deep Throat, "Linda Lovelace" became a porn "star" overnight. Since that time, Linda Lovelace Marchiano has written her autobiography. In Ordeal she reveals that her (then-) husband Charles Trainor forced her to act in the movie. "There were guns, knives, beatings, threats on the lives of my family constantly. And after the physical abuse, the mental abuse becomes just as damaging," Marchiano said. "I think it's important that people realize that. People who produce these films will say, 'Well, we check it out and make sure that these women are doing it willingly.'" But Marchiano noted: "Virtually every time someone watches that film, they are watching me being raped." [Concerned Women for America. "Pornography: Poison of the Mind and Heart". <www.cwfa.org/main.asp>. 1998.]

Children

Who's paying the ultimate price as society strives to satisfy an insatiable, ravenous lust?

Dr. Victor Cline gives an example of how pornography affects the young, "the parents of a 14-year-old boy brought their son to me when they discovered that he was sexually molesting his sister. We found on investigation that cable TV was in the home, and late at night on one of the channels, there were some very graphic, rough, very violent depictions of sexuality. He got up at two in the morning, went downstairs, and watched these films night after night. They became the training manual or 'sex education' that triggered him to assault his sister sexually." [Cline, Victor. "Pornography's Effects on Adults and Children." <http://www.moralityinmedia.org/>.2001.]

In another study of 43 pedophiles, child pornography was found used in every one of the cases investigated. The officers reported the abusers repeatedly saying the same thing: "I used this stuff to stimulate the child, to break down his inhibitions." [The World an I, December 1992: p. 508]

Pornography normalizes and promotes the sexual abuse of children. In 1989, cartoonist Dwaine Tinsley, the creator of "Chester the Molester," a Hustler magazine cartoon which glorified molestation, was convicted of violently sexually abusing his daughter until she was 18 years old. His daughter was left a suicidal drug addict after years of being drugged, forced to take birth control pills, and being sexually abused by her father. [Concerned Women for America. "Pornography: Poison of the Mind and Heart". <www.cwfa.org/main.asp>. 1998.]

87 percent of convicted molesters of girls and 77 percent of convicted molesters of boys admit to using pornography, most often in the commission of their crimes. [Concerned Women for America. "Pornography: Poison of the Mind and Heart". <www.cwfa.org/main.asp>. 1998.]

How far are you going to let lust take you?

The first step towards freedom is to admit that pornography is detrimental to society and to yourself. To say that what you view doesn't affect you is like saying that advertising has no effect. Would companies spend billions of dollars a year on advertising if that were the case?

The following is from a woman who experienced cost of pornography:

"Besides loneliness, I feel sick-like I'm going to throw up-and I tell myself I have to be strong for the children. But that's not all I feel. What I feel mostly is anger. I don't understand why you won't let go of the pornography and the hookers. How could you choose them over the children? How could you choose them over me? You were all I ever wanted. How come I wasn't enough for you?" [Bush, Rosaline. "Caught in the web of Porn: From Victims To Victors". <www.cwfa.org/library.asp?category=pornography>. 1997.]

For many, from all walks of life, pornography can become a terrible addiction. Society's shift away from relationships and commitment to an obsessive focus on body shapes and sex has damaging results for both men and women. People, especially young people, tend to model what they observe and many men and women everywhere have embraced the attitude that a woman is little more than a sexual object. Women try to be that perfect object and men try to attain her. How can we get away from the constant striving, the bitter disappointment and the emptiness to find deep fulfilment and happiness?

True freedom is within your grasp.

Do you want to be free?

Yes, I want to be free.
I will continue with porn.

Complete freedom is possible!

Here are some helpful links:

I Can't Stop Sinning!

http://www.promisekeepers.org/
http://www.purelifeministries.org/
http://www.sa.org/

Continue With Porn?

To choose pornography is to choose dissatisfaction, disillusionment and to hurt those around you.

Do you feel you are not addicted? Prove it! Try going 40 days without. If you can do it then maybe you're right!

If you feel comfortable, send us your name and we will pray that God will reveal His Truth to you.