Account: "The pornography pandemic of 2020."

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see http://www.catholic365.com/article/11666/the-pornography-pandemic-of-2020.html

“In 2019, the most popular pornography website boasted 49 billion unique searches in one year from over 2.5 billion unique users. This is just one website. The amount of men addicted to pornography in America and throughout the world is absolutely out of control, and the pandemic is making it much, much worse… Never in history has the sexualization of society been so thorough, unfiltered and defining, and its result is what we are seeing today.”

…However, this article proposes a family solution some would find too radical.
 
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…However, this article proposes a family solution some would find too radical.
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It could be helpful, yet eliminating technology in the home does not eliminate production and use of pornography. Pornography predates film, and video.

Definition of pornography: “printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.”
 
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Huge problem. Pornography unleashes vice in a practiced way that contributes to all the other vices. Radical steps should be taken to eliminate the occasions of pornography.

At the same time, the devotions mentioned are not magic bullets. The larger problem with pornography is simply the addiction to pleasure and distraction. We are a people that avoids suffering. Dealing with suffering requires patience, fortitude, the committment to scrape your butt off the canvas when you fall, for years if that’s what it takes. It requires a long term outlook that doesn’t seek easy solutions. Devotions can be used in a superstitious way unfortunately.

I’m not trying to discourage devotions. By all means we need grace in large amounts, but we also need Sirach 2:
1My child, when you come to serve the Lord,>
prepare yourself for trials.>
2Be sincere of heart and steadfast,>
and do not be impetuous in time of adversity.>
3Cling to him, do not leave him,>
that you may prosper in your last days.>
4Accept whatever happens to you;>
in periods of humiliation be patient.>
5For in fire gold is tested,>
and the chosen, in the crucible of humiliation.
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Virtue takes excruciating patience and commitment.
 
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I hate porn so much. Actually, make that all sins born from Lust. Even king Solomon wasn’t safe, and he had wisdom granted from God.
 
From the article:
”Get rid of technology in your home. Not just the TV; phones, the internet, ipods and ipads. Think about it, up until about 20 years ago we survived without it! We can today as well.“

So good to hear that pornography only became a problem in the last 20 years. :roll_eyes: A bigger problem due to accessibility, yes. But actual pornography and people’s desire for it is the real problem.
 
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Irishmom2 said:
From the article:
”Get rid of technology in your home. Not just the TV; phones, the internet, ipods and ipads. Think about it, up until about 20 years ago we survived without it! We can today as well.“

So good to hear that pornography only became a problem in the last 20 years. :roll_eyes: A bigger problem due to accessibility, yes. But actual pornography and people’s desire for it is the real problem.
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Yes. It is a good idea to eliminate occasions of temptation.
But the point of all that is to set the practice of virtue into motion, as you are referencing. Eliminating occasions and capability will only work to a certain point. I have always found ways around my firewalls in the past, when I wanted to bad enough.

For me, learning to struggle faithfully is the key. The practice of virtue.
 
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A lot of people also work in their homes… more so now than ever.
To follow this proposal, I would have to rent an office. But then wouldn’t a private office be an even bigger temptation than being at home with family? So no, not a one size fits all proposal…
 
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The amount of men addicted to pornography in America and throughout the world is absolutely out of control, and the pandemic is making it much, much worse…
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Didn’t click the article, but I think one of the things to be done about it is to change society’s view of masculinity.

I mean don’t men (Not all) brag about watching porn and masturbating… having sex with a lot of women?
 
I work with youth and lots of boys get addicted at age 10 to 12! We need lots more education by the parents before this age. They need to know the danger but also need to satisfy their natural curiosity.
 
Irishmom2 said:
So good to hear that pornography only became a problem in the last 20 years. :roll_eyes: A bigger problem due to accessibility, yes.
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Yeah, I don’t remember the 1001 porn magazines and all the porn and near-porn pictures in the mainstream magazines and newspapers being particularly “inaccessible”. Any kid who wanted to get hold of one could. It’s true he didn’t have the variety and huge amounts of it at his fingertips, but porn is porn, whether it’s one dirty picture or 100,000 websites of it.
 
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…However, this article proposes a family solution some would find too radical.
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I disagree with the word ‘radical’. It’s a non-solution.

Students and many adults (which will only increase) rely on technology in their studies, work, and livelihood.
 
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Students and many adults (which will only increase) rely on technology in their studies, work, and livelihood.
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I’m sure its possible, and perhaps even preferable, for some people…but really as a “solution” its akin to the Amish approach of shunning all modern technology. Its just not realistic for the average modern professional or student.
 
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The amount of men addicted to pornography in America and throughout the world
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There are also many, many women addicted to pornography. And many, many kids/teens who are addicts or on way to that.

I read Delivered - True Stories of Men and Women Who Turned from Porn to Purity by Matt Fradd and that is worth of reading.

I agree that impurity is pandemic but not just of 2020.
And addiction won’t go away if cause isn’t resolved. Of course, there should be much praying, fasting, sacramental life and removing sources (not removing devices from house but putting internet protection and avoiding all sources of porn in house) but if there stays the first cause that will make someone fall again back then addiction won’t go away in the end. It won’t go away by itself.
 
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Trivia—I remember reading that a great deal of web technology was innovated by the porn industry.
 
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We blew up our TV, threw away our paper
Went to the country, built us a home
Had a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches
They all found Jesus on their own

J.P.
 
Actually, I know for a fact they didn’t invent viruses. I happened to personally know the person who invented computer viruses at the time he did it.
 
It is the worst kind of pandemic for sure. And people make all kinds of excuses, like: ‘pornography is not named as a sin in the Bible, I am a Bible-only person!’
 
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True but nearly everything has moved online. One of my former colleagues when introducing himself in the new job said how he had owned and managed two Sex Shops. He later explained that he had sold them once the internet started taking off as people could get their porn for free. Printed material is a lot less popular and then there is the embarrassment factor, will you be bold enough to take the magazine and present it to the cashier (probably female) for payment?
 
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