Thursday, December 15, 2011

Pornography.

Kate has been busy getting us off the ground with this thing! You can now follow us on Twitter, or email us at Endsexslaverynow@gmail.com. :)

Sooo, getting into it...for today's post I'm going to talk to you guys about something that's actually become really important to me, & that's the effects that pornography has on sex trafficking.

Katelyn & I recently watched the documentary "Sex + Money," & one thing that stood out to me was how connected pornography is to trafficking. In this video excerpt from the documentary, Morgan Perry & her team go to a "porn expo" & interview various people they meet there.
*Warning: Even though this video is censored, be advised there is some graphic content.*
One of the most disturbing things to me in this video is the girl who says that, "abuse seems to be intriguing for most people...they don't like normal stuff anymore."

Here are some statistics for you:
* 28,258 internet users are viewing pornography.
* 79% of youth unwanted exposure to pornography occurs in the home, & the average age of exposure is 11.
* 50% of Christian men & 20% of Christian women are addicted to pornography.
* 80% of people addicted take it offline & act on their fantasies with affairs & casual sex.
* No one knows what percentage of men buy sex - estimates range from 16%-80%.
* 47% of Christian men say porn is a major problem in the home.
* A search in Google on the word 'porn' returned over 165 million pages, & 'XXX' returned more than 200 million.
* Every second, $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography, bringing in $57 billion per year globally; $12 billion of this is in the USA. The porn industry brings in more revenue than the NFL, NBA, & Major League Baseball COMBINED. Child pornography alone generates $3 billion annually.
(Sources: Enough, Newsweek's "The Johns Next Door," YWAM's "30 Days of Prayer for the Voiceless" publication, & "Sex + Money: A National Search For Human Worth.")

When you consider the fact that the internet is the #1 platform for pimps & traffickers to do business (Source), & that pornography is the same as any other drug addiction in that your senses eventually become dull to the drug & you need more to stimulate yourself, I have a hard time thinking that pornography & trafficking are not connected. No connection between legal porn viewing & criminal behavior has been proven, but police have seen a steady increase in pornography related to crimes. (Source) My question is, how many of these pornographic videos online are "starring" trafficked girls?

Referring again to the Newsweek article, in a study done for the purpose of the article, they found that buying sex was so pervasive that the study group could not find men to survey who DON'T do it, & had to loosen the definition in order to find a 100-person control group. They had to settle on a definition of non-sex buyers as "men who have not been to a strip club more than twice in the past year, have not purchased a lap dance, have not used pornography more than once in the last month, & have not purchased phone sex or the services of a sex worker, escort, erotic masseuse, or prostitute." Sex buyers in their study used significantly more pornography than non-buyers, & 3/4 of them said they received sex education from pornography. America has adopted a culture of tolerance where truth is relative & pornography is just something to indulge in when you're bored or lonely. We've normalized sexual perversion in the name of diversity. This is why we've gotten to where we are today, & this is why the face of human trafficking is hidden in plain sight in our country. How dare we question anyone's "truth" or tell them that their lifestyle choices are "wrong"? This tolerance is absolutely REQUIRED in order for trafficking to exist. Where do we draw the line? When do we stop & say, "Actually it IS wrong for you to have sex with a 10-year-old," rather than turn a blind eye & say, "Well, if that's the way THEY want to live..." It's wrong, & it isn't okay.

If our boys are receiving sex education from internet pornography at age 11, they are turning into men who will act out on their fantasies & buy sex. This information SHOULD shock you, & it SHOULD make you uncomfortable. It should also convict & challenge you about what you look at on the internet.

Sex is a supply & demand business. End the demand, stop the supply.

I'll leave you with the testimony of a former prostitute/porn star who gave her life to Christ:

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