Why Porn is Evil
Major #porn platforms are offering their premium service worldwide for free during the #Chinavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, many people are calling this "selfless" and praising these platforms as "good citizens during the world's crisis". Don't be so easily deceived! The porn industry makes their money off selling an addictive product. The one and only reason these people are giving their premium porn away globally is because they know they will further enslave more people! There's nothing compassionate about this; they exploit #women - some of whom are rape victims, others are under age, and others have been sex-trafficked - and then they exploit people's lust to sell those exploited women digitally.
THE RESEARCH
Gail Dines wrote for the Washington Post:
After 40 years of peer-reviewed research, scholars can say with confidence that porn is an industrial product that shapes how we think about gender, #sexuality, relationships, intimacy, sexual violence and gender equality — for the worse... Extensive scientific research reveals that exposure to and consumption of porn threaten the social, emotional and physical health of individuals, families and communities, and highlights the degree to which porn is a public health crisis rather than a private matter. But just as the tobacco industry argued for decades that there was no proof of a connection between smoking and lung cancer, so, too, has the porn industry, with the help of a well-oiled public relations machine, denied the existence of empirical research on the impact of its products... A recent meta-analysis of 22 studies between 1978 and 2014 from seven different countries concluded that pornography consumption is associated with an increased likelihood of committing acts of verbal or physical sexual aggression, regardless of age. A 2010 meta-analysis of several studies found “an overall significant positive association between pornography use and attitudes supporting violence against women”... Yet another genre of pornography quickly proliferating on the Web: “revenge porn,” whose perpetrators post and disseminate sexually explicit photos of their victims (often their former girlfriends) online without their consent. Unsurprisingly, revenge porn has been linked to several suicides and has been used to blackmail and sexually exploit minors.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges wrote that porn “glorifies our dehumanization of women”, noting that it commercializes the rape and torture of women. #Pornography changes our expectations for human sexuality in perverse ways, and is designed to dehumanize an experience that God created to be very human.
We should also consider the testimony of former adult performers. Brittni Ruiz told VT that porn "was torture for seven years. I was miserable, I was lonely, I eventually turned to drugs and alcohol and attempted suicide.”
NPR summarizes the problem well:
Indeed, two authorities on the neurochemistry of addiction, Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth, claim it is the ability of this drug to influence all three pleasure systems in the brain — arousal, satiation, and fantasy — that makes it "the piece de resistance among the addictions"... The Witherspoon Institute released a report examining "the social costs of pornography," signed by more than 50 scholars representing a wide array of professions, academic disciplines, and political views. The report details the considerable social costs that pornography exacts upon men, women, and children... According to Dr. Victor Cline, a nationally renowned clinical psychologist who specializes in sexual addiction, pornography addiction is a process that undergoes four phases. First, addiction, resulting from early and repeated exposure accompanied by masturbation. Second, escalation, during which the addict requires more frequent porn exposure to achieve the same "highs" and may learn to prefer porn to sexual intercourse. Third, desensitization, during which the addict views as normal what was once considered repulsive or immoral. And finally, the acting-out phase, during which the addict runs an increased risk of making the leap from screen to real life... Consider what we know. In a study published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, Schneider found that among the 68 percent of couples in which one person was addicted to Internet porn, one or both had lost interest in sex. Results of the same study, published in 2000, indicated that porn use was a major contributing factor to increased risk of separation and divorce. This finding is substantiated by results of a 2002 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, during which surveyed lawyers claimed that "an obsessive interest in Internet pornography" was a significant factor in 56 percent of their divorce cases the prior year.
SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND EVIL
The porn industry has hijacked the sexuality of an entire culture, laying waste to a whole generation of boys, who no longer know what real male-sexuality is, and girls, who no longer know what real female-sexuality is. The abuses within the porn industry highlighted above only scratch the surface of the damage that porn causes as it changes and alters human sexuality in unnatural ways according to the basest and most vile fantasy of a few perverted directors.
As we have seen, many porn-consumers assume that the performers in the videos that they are watching are enjoying the experience and are happily employed as adult performers. This assumption is categorically false. Performers are being paid to act, and many of them are using drugs to deaden the physical and emotional pain they are experiencing.
CONCLUSIONS
Despite the porn-industry's well-oiled propaganda machine trying to argue to the contrary, the science is conclusive: porn is a public health crisis that is degrading our social, emotional, and physical health. Porn contributes to an increased propensity towards committing acts of sexual violence, which makes the rise of "revenge porn" unsurprising. In one sense, people have weaponized porn to humiliate their exes. Unfortunately, revenge porn has been used to blackmail and exploit minors, and it has led to the suicide of people whose careers and lives have been ruined by the genre of revenge porn.
In porn, human imperfections do not exist. The oversized silicone breasts, the pouting, gel-inflated lips, the bodies sculpted by plastic surgeons, the drug-induced erections that never subside and the shaved pubic regions — which cater to porn’s pedophilia — turn performers into pieces of plastic. Smell, sweat, breath, heartbeats and touch are erased along with tenderness. Women in porn are packaged commodities. They are pleasure dolls and sexual puppets. They are stripped of true emotions. Porn is not about sex, if one defines sex as a mutual act between two partners, but about masturbation, a solitary auto-arousal devoid of intimacy and love. The cult of the self — that is the essence of porn — lies at the core of corporate culture.
Even in the face of such darkness, the hope of redemption in Christ shines brings new life to those who were desperately trapped in the darkness. For some inspiration you can read about former porn star's Jenna Presley's and Crissy Moran's conversions to Christianity.