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 at porn but does that make it ok?
Back in the 1950’s, the height of tobacco consumption, it seemed like everyone was smoking. Did that make it ok? The point is that just because “most people” are doing something doesn’t make it ok to do. People started curtailing their use of tobacco when medical researched linked it to cancer. So the masses do get things wrong. Smoking may have been the “in” thing to do but doing it could cause you all sorts of medical problems.
Looking at porn may not lead to cancer but it is interesting to note that a clinic in London reported that almost 1/3 of the youth coming to them for psychological treatment are addicted to porn. Miranda Suit, founder of charity group Safermedia, recently said, “This generation is going through an experiment. No one knows how they will survive this unprecedented assault on their sexual development. They are guinea pigs for the next generation.”
All the people smoking in the 50’s were the guinea pigs for the next generation also. It didn’t work out to well for them. So do you really want to be a guinea pig in an experiment with unknown side effects? Because “everyone” is looking at porn you may be thinking you can’t get hurt. A lot of smokers thought the same thing until they found out to late that they were wrong.