Porn and Violence - repost

From the driscolls new book "Real Marriage: The truth about sex, friendship and life together" There are 4 basic lies that porn preaches...

1. All women want sex from all men all the time in all kinds of bizarre ways. All women are nymphomaniacs.

2. Women really enjoy whatever a man does to them sexually.

3. Any woman who does not meet the stereotypes of point 1&2 can quickly be changed through a bit of force or intimidation.

4. The woman is to be dominated and degraded by the man in a way that exploits her as a tool for the man's pleasure. She is not a person, but she is merely a series of body parts.

Porn has done a great job at getting men to believe these things and view women in this light. 

• Every second, $3075 is spent on pornography.
• Every 39 minutes a new porn video is created.
• Pornography revenue worldwide is $97.06 billion dollars annually.
• Pornography revenue in the U.S is just over $25 billion dollars annually.
• Pornography brings in more revenue than the NFL, NBA and MLB combined.
• There is over $3 billion dollars generated annually on illegal child pornography alone.
• There are over 4.2 million pornographic sites on the Internet.
• 1.5 billion pornographic downloads take place monthly.
• Adult video rentals in U.S. alone are 1 billion rental annually.
• The average age of first exposure to pornography on the Internet is 11 years old.
• Approximately 20% of all internet porn sites include explicit pictures of children.
• 33% of all pornographic users are now women.

Here are some stated facts regarding the effect that pornography has on the lives of people.

• Jay Rodgers, the Director for Forerunner states that defenders of pornography argue that it is not harmful, and thus should not be regulated or banned. Citing the 1970 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, they conclude that there is no relationship between exposure to erotic material and subsequent behavior. But two subsequent decades of research based on the increased production of more explicit and violent forms of pornography has shown the profound effects pornography can have on human behavior.


• Psychologist Edward Donnerstein (University of Wisconsin) found that brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior. Male viewers tend to be more aggressive towards women, less responsive to pain and suffering of rape victims, and more willing to accept various myths about rape.


• Dr. Dolf Zimmerman and Dr. Jennings Bryant showed that continued exposure to pornography had serious adverse effects on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes toward women in particular. They also found that pornography desensitizes people to rape as a criminal offense.
• These researchers also found that massive exposure to pornography encourages a desire for increasingly deviant materials which involve violence, like sadomasochism and rape.


• Feminist author Diana Russell notes in her book Rape and Marriage the correlation between deviant behavior (including abuse) and pornography. She also found that pornography leads men and women to experience conflict, suffering, and sexual dissatisfaction.


• Researcher Victor Cline (University of Utah) has documented in his research how men become addicted to pornographic materials, begin to desire more explicit or deviant material, and end up acting out what they have seen.


• According to Charles Keating of Citizens for Decency Through Law, research reveals that 77 percent of child molesters of boys and 87 percent of child molesters of girls admitted imitating the sexual behavior they had seen modeled in pornography.


• Sociologists Murray Straus and Larry Baron (University of New Hampshire) found that rape rates are highest in states which have high sales of sex magazines and lax enforcement of pornography laws.6


• Michigan state police detective Darrell Pope found that of the 38,000 sexual assault cases in Michigan (1956-1979), in 41 percent of the cases pornographic material was viewed just prior to or during the crime. This agrees with research done by psychotherapist David Scott who found that “half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim.”


• The Final Report of the 1986 Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography lists a full chapter of testimony (197-223) from victims whose assailants had previously viewed pornographic materials. The adverse effects range from physical harm (rape, torture, murder, sexually transmitted disease) to psychological harm (suicidal thoughts, fear, shame, nightmares).


• A national survey stated that 47% of marriages in America have been negatively affected by pornography, causing marital struggles, lack of trust and loss of hope.


• 66% of all divorces state that pornography played a significant role in the decision to separate.


• 2 out of 5 abductions of teens between the ages of 15-17 are to to Internet contact by predators who have a pornographic addiction issue.

Those studies hit home for me because I experienced a friend, who i would consider to be a borderline porn addict, go through those stages. He started out with softcore porn, then years later when I was talking to him online, he pasted me this video of this dude beating up this chick in the porn and said that it turned him on.

At the time I was just like, uh whatever floats your boat bro, but now that i've gotten these statistics and studies and looked into the subject, it has completely opened my mind. It's a travesty how lightly we take this subject. If those were the stats in 1991, when i would assume the internet wasn't too popular, can you imagine the impact porn is having on society as a whole now?

Quoted from another website:

A friend of mine who heard about this series sent me some links to share. She’s continuing to track down some additional resources, but she remember when studying marketing in college a few years ago she learned how the porn industry strategically marketed toward 11-17 year olds knowing that they were the largest user base and that if they got hooked (addicted) as a teenager, they’d be a customer for life. She remember reading how the porn industry used school textbooks to learn what kids would be searching for when working on projects to optimize search results so that kids would likely stumble across their content. I don’t have the study or documentation to back that up, but my friend is looking for that resource now.

I'm sure the above quote can be proven if you do a little digging. I mean, you see this all day on google, search for almost anything in images and you're likely to see porn pics. These people in this industry have no moral compass, they are looking to enslave people into an addiction that causes more pain than they could ever even imagine. The truly sad part is that they probably do know and just don't care.

Sin always begets more sin and just like it plays out in porn it plays out in every other aspect of our life. If we don't deal with it we are in for a heap of issues. If we don't see this problem, then we will never seek The Solution.

Grace and Peace