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| Addiction-Proofing You Life: The Challenge of Sexual Addiction |
Page 3 of 14 |
| The Challenge of Sexual Addiction  |
| Pornographic addiction presents a unique and powerful challenge to
the individual and the evangelical church. The deluge of pornography
sweeping the country is challenging. The inundation
almost feels like smut is being shot with a fire hose into our
living rooms. The sources are varied though, major hotel chains and mainstream businesses are now the purveyors of smut. What has been previously relegated to the backrooms of society are now controlled by the boardrooms of the United States. General Motors, for example, the largest corporation in the world, sells more pornographic videos than does Larry Flynt, the notorious publisher of Hustler Magazine. DirecTV and Echostar, satellite networks, make millions on pornographic films. Their profits exceed Playboy. Another giant, AT&T, also markets a hardcore sex channel called the Hot Network on its cable service. Many major companies in the United States are
marketing porn: companies such as Time Warner, AT&T, General Motors,
Liberty Mutual, and others. |
That means that the most skilled and resource rich businesses in the country have become highly skilled purveyors of porn. 40% of the hotel rooms in the country are equipped with the capacity to play porn. These same businesses say that 50% of their customers order such videos. Then, there is the ever present inundation from the Internet. Two information services maintain that one in four regular Internet users visit a pornographic site. Sixty thousand such sites exist on the web. What that means is that the evangelical church can no longer protect itself through secular law. The forces of evil have swamped the country. Communities pushing video and massage parlors to the edge of town have achieved hollow victories. The very air waves betray us. New meaning is given to the truth that the devil is the prince of the power of the air. |
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