By: Angela Bobanovic
NOT SO FUN FACTS
12% of the websites on the internet are
pornographic
 8% percent of all emails sent are
pornographic
 25% of all search engines requests are
pornographic ( 68 million a day)
 Sunday is the most popular day for porn
consumption
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STILL NOT FUN…
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1 in 3 visitors of pornographic websites are
women
The average age of a child’s first exposure
to porn is 11
90% of children ages 8-16 have viewed
porn online
There are 116,000 searches for child porn
everyday
1 in 7 youths report being solicited for sex
on the internet
PORNOGROPGHY:
The term “pornography” can be used in
discussion and debate to refer
broadly to material that is sexually
explicit, or more specifically to
sexually explicit material designed
primarily to produce sexual arousal
in viewers, or to sexually explicit
material that subordinates women or
is harmful to women and children, or
with some other definition in mind.
Words or images intended to cause
sexual arousal
 Erotica: artistic portrayal of nudity, not
necessarily sexual activity
 Soft-core porn: shows or describes
nudity and suggests sexual activity
 Hard-core porn: contains explicit
descriptions or images of sexual acts.
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Under Canadian criminal law, the term “pornography”
occurs only in section 163.1 of the Criminal Code,
which provides a definition of “child pornography.”
Pornographic material featuring consenting adults is
regulated through the “obscenity” provision of the
Criminal Code (section 163). In other words, unlike
child pornography, pornographic material involving
consenting adults is legal in Canada if it is not
deemed to be obscene. As a consequence, child
pornography tends to be much more clandestine and
difficult to detect than adult pornography, which is
readily accessible in retail stores through the sale
and exchange of DVDs, videos, films, books and
magazines, as well as in theatres, on television and
over the Internet.
Child Pornography
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visual representations of explicit sexual
activity involving anyone under the age
of 18 or depicted as being so; other
visual representations of a sexual nature
of persons under the age of 18; and
written material or visual depictions that
advocate or counsel illegal sexual
activity involving persons under that
age.
Lust of flesh/eyes
Porn causes us to lust after flesh
through the eyes which doesn’t qualify
as what we are to think about
 Proverbs 6:25-28 “25 Do not lust in your heart
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after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, 26
for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the
adulteress preys upon your very life. 27 Can a man scoop
fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? 28 Can
a man walk ...
 Matt 5: 28 “28 But I tell you that anyone who looks
at a woman lustfully has already committed
adultery with her in his heart.”
The churches view
Sex is reserved for the heterosexual
married couple and to be used in
accordance with God’s will
 Porn supports sexual adventure outside
marriage primarily for pleasure.
 It is not morally justifiable to project
men, women and children on the basis
of consumption and production of porn.
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GALATIANS 5:17-21 For the sinful nature
desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and
the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful
nature. They are in conflict with each other,
so that you do not do what you want. 18But
if you are led by the Spirit, you are not
under law…
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Ephesians 5:3 But among you there must
not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or
of any kind of impurity, or of greed,
because these are improper for God's holy
people.
ART VS PRONOGRAPHY
Art portrays the nakedness of both men
and women as beauty and being
beautiful
 It is beautiful because being naked or
the nakedness is intended to display
beauty and wonder
 Porn is intended to attract or tempt a
person by offering pleasure and
arousing the person’s lust
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Pornography is seen as degrading sex and creating
an unhealthy extramarital sexual interest in
individuals, thereby contributing to a weakening of
the marital relationship. Much of this filmed,
photographed, or written "prostitution" is actually
anti-sexual because it gives a great deal of false
information about human sexuality. Also, since much
pornography depicts violence and aggression
against females, it raises risks of conditioning
viewers to sanction these as acceptable behavior.
The best evidence suggests that all sexual
deviations are learned, and pornography appears to
be a major facilitator in the acquisition of these
deviations.
PORN AND VIOLENCE
Exposure to pornography causes sexual
arousal, increases people’s sexual
activity, and encourages men to be
aggressive and more accepting of
violent acts such as rape.
 Porn involving children encourages
some men to desire sexual activity with
them (pedophilia)
 Sexual harassment and rape against
women
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Porn is the 3rd largest revenue organized
crime in the US after drugs and
gambling
 85% of revenue from porn magazines
and videos goes into the pockets of
organized crime.
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CONSERVATIVE VIEW
Believe it is legitimate for state to
prohibit consenting adults from
publishing and viewing porn, even in
private in order to protect the moral
health of society
 It threatens the traditional family and
religious institutions as being intrinsically
morally wrong as it encourages sexual
promiscuity and deviant sexual practices
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LIBERAL VIEW
In favour for individual freedom
 Freedom of speech and expression
 Privacy or ‘moral independence’
 Harmless- expression or indulgence
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Feminist View
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describes pornography as the
domination, humiliation, and coercion of
women reinforcing sexual and cultural
attitudes that are mechanisms of rape
and sexual harassment, and contributes
to the male-centered objectification of
women
7 Steps to confess
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1) Confess your sin to God (1 John 1:9)
2) Ask God to cleanse, renew and transform your
mind (Romans 12:2)
3) Ask God to fill your mind with purity
4) Learn to possess your body in holiness (1 Thess
4:3-4)
5) Understand the proper meaning of sex and rely on
your spouse alone to meet the need (Corinthians
7:1-5)
6) Realize that if you walk in the spirit, you will not
fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Gala 5:16)
7) Take practical steps to reduce your exposure to
graphic images