XXXChurch: Parents Blog
When I use the term "porn addict", is the first image that springs to your mind a man or teenage youth glued to a computer screen?
If so, think again. One in three visitors to pornographic websites are now women – and as many as one in five say they are hooked, according to a study by the Internet Filter Software Review.
While it’s accepted that women are watching - and enjoying - porn more...
Have you head of this new hit show from the CW? I heard about "The L.A. Complex" at Target this week when I was standing in line behind a few girls that looked to be about 13 or 14 years old. Their discussion was very animated, and it was clear that the show was one of their new obsessions. Later, when I watched a few sample segments from the show, I discovered gratuitous sex, explicit...
When I’m talking with parents about the accessibility and impact of pornography on kids today, they often want to shut down, plug their ears or pretend that their kids are good enough to stay away from hardcore porn. Unfortunately, the largest viewers of online pornography are teenagers today, and the vast majority of kids will accidentally encounter pornography online. So what’s a parent...
Editor’s Note: On Friday, we began hearing the story of Charlie, an 11-year-old struggling with pornography addiction (Read Part One of this article here). As his mother has shared, she, like so many parents, had no idea that the troubling transformation she observed in her son’s life was rooted in his access to pornography. Rather than continuing to turn a blind eye and just saying “boys...
“Boys will be boys”. That is a statement we’ve all heard many times. It’s usually said just after a story about something inappropriate a boy has done. I think that what people are really thinking when they make that statement is: “Boys are complete scum bags and that’s just the way it will always be”. To me the statement is a complete cop-out. It’s like the world thinks boys are a lost...
Earlier this week, we looked at two reasons pornography can be especially harmful to children: Firstly, the images can never be erased and are especially alluring to young brains; and, Secondly, that a child’s prefrontal cortex is not fully developed, and as a result, they have a very difficult time distinguishing fantasy from reality (read the full blog here).
The third reason that...
Last week, Kevin brought up some great points regarding pornography’s impact on the brain. As Kevin highlighted, most kids today believe that viewing pornography is no big deal—that what they watch online will have little impact on their offline relationships and lives. Sadly, many parents also believe this myth or the myth that their kids are too young or too smart to seek out or encounter...
I would venture a guess that most kids don’t think that looking at porn has any lasting impact on their brain. It’s just another thing to watch like a sitcom. But recent research indicates otherwise. A report that came out of the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry Into Online Child Protection found that 25% of young patients at a leading private clinic are being treated for an addiction to...
Have you heard the term “Technical Virgin”? It basically means that you can participate in oral sex, anal sex, heavy petting and mutual masturbation but as long as the penis does not go in the vagina you are still, “technically”, a virgin. This seems to be the standard many Christian teens are aiming for. “As long as I am technically a virgin when I get married that’s good enough” goes the...
The stats tell us that 90% of kids, ages 8-16, have viewed porn online and that 30% of all global web traffic is porn. The largest porn site, which I won't name, gets 350 million unique visits a month and 4.4 billion page views. These types of numbers are astounding when you realize that the only websites that surpass these numbers are sites like Facebook and Google. So the masses are looking...
