When it comes to pornography, no one is immune. It affects men and women of all ages.
Today,
teenagers are bombarded with these images like never before through the
Internet. They're growing up in a world awash in X-rated material.
It's
a $97 billion business every year, making more than top tech companies
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, eBay, Google, and Yahoo combined.
Roughly
12 percent of the world's websites, 4.2 million of them, offer the
illicit material. About 2.5 billion pornographic emails whiz through
cyberspace everyday--a whopping 8 percent of all the world's daily
emails.
Possibly most astounding of all, 67 percent of men and 49 percent of women now say porn is acceptable.
The Porn Generation
As
for young people, the average age they first see it is now 11 years
old. Ninety percent of those 8 to 16 years old say they've viewed it
online.
Many are now becoming addicted. It's an addiction that could ruin their future lives.
Former
addict C.J. Hitz, from Colorado Springs, Colo., was first exposed to
porn magazines at age 8, and it led to years of addiction to
pornography.
"Our society is just saturated with it," Hitz, author of Forgiveness Formula,
told CBN News. "Today's young generation receives more temptation per
second than any other generation in the history of mankind."
Every second, 28,258 people are looking at X-rated material online. Every second, people are spending $3,075 on such material.
"Before,
pornography was like this dirty, secretive, dark subculture," Aubrey
Terry, with the Human Trafficking Task Force in Southern Colorado, said.
She blames the Internet for much of the present X-rated epidemic.
"Now it's accessible to everyone. Now it's everyday life," she said.
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