Pornography is Dangerous

• Researchers no link changes in [sexual] behavior to the startling discovery that when people indulge in pornography, they release powerful chemicals that actually change the structure of the brain and body, creating a physical addiction.  This addiction is so powerful it is being likened to concaine, alcohol, and heroin. 
• In a special report on love in marriage, TIME magazine calls the Internet “the crack cocaine of sexual addiction.”
• Porn is transforming sexuality and relationships for the worse according to psychologists and sociologists.

Pornography is a growing problem.

• Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises
• In the United States, porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC ($6.2 billion)
• Pornography generates $57 billion worldwide and $12 billion in the United States.
• Forty million adults regularly visit pornographic Internet websites.
• Richard Barry, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Laywers said, “Pornography had an almost nonexistent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago.”  Now, according to two-thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers at a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Internet pornography “played a significant role in divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half of such cases.”  Intimacy Ignited by Dillow & Pintus (p. 197-198)

“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.” Job 31:1