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Don McClain
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Don McClain
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 How does the ruler of this world try to pollute our
mind? - John 14:30 ; 17:14; 1 John 2:15-17
 We Are Warned - Deut. 18:9-14
 Indeed – the world is evil - John 7:7; 1 John 5:19
 Satan has blinded the minds of MANY! – 2 Cor.
4:4; Eph. 4:17-20
 We are to remain separate from the world –
untainted by it’s influence – 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1;
James 1:27; 4:4
 We are to feed our mind with things that will
encourage, (not discourage), us to remain holy
and serve God – Phili 4:7-9; 1 Pet. 2:1,2,11,12
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Romans 12:1-2 (KJV)
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. [2] And be
not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
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There are 800 million rentals each year of adult videos and
DVDs (Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin.
www.worldandi.com, March, 2004).
11,000 adult movies are produced each year (Overdosing
on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March,
2004).
 Playboy’s largest cable channel, Playboy TV, is available
in 24 million of the nation’s 81 million homes that receive
either satellite, cable or digital television (Court Overrules
Law restricting Cable Sex Shows, Linda Greenhouse. The
New York Times On
http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/scotus/
articles/052300scotus.html )
 Median age for the first use of pornography: boys: 11-13;
guide
for
Don McClaingirls: 12-14 (Your Children & Pornography: A W.
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 According to 2004 IFR research, U.S. porn revenue
exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and
NBC (6.2 billion). Porn revenue is larger than all
combined revenues of all professional football,
baseball and basketball franchises. The pornography
industry, according to conservative estimates, brings
in $57 billion per year, of which the United States is
responsible for $12 billion. (Internet Pornography and
Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder,
Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin. Sexual
Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005).
 For every 10 men in church, 5 are struggling with
pornography (The Call to Biblical Manhood. Man in
the Mirror, 6 July, 2004).
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In 2004, there were 372 million pornographic Web pages,
2.5 billion emails (8% of total emails), 100 thousand Web
sites offering illegal child pornography, (Internet
Pornography Statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2004).
 72 million Internet users visit pornography web sites per
year (Pornography Statistics 2003. Internet Filter
Review www.internetfilterreview.com, 2003).
 At least 20,000 American adults visit Internet sex sites at
least 11 hours per week (Victims of Pornography Month
Should Not Exist, Jan Larue. Christian Counseling Today,
2003 Vol. 11 No. 3).
 34 percent of churchgoing women said they have
intentionally visited porn websites online (Internet porn a
guy thing? Not really, online rating service says,
Mark
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Twenty percent of men and 13% of women admitted to
accessing pornography at work (Internet Pornography
Statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2004).
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Three million of the visitors to adult websites in September 2000
were age 17 or younger (NetValue Report on Minors
Online. Business Wire, 19 December, 2000).
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21 percent of teens say they have looked at something on the
Internet that they wouldn’t want their parents to know (A World
of Their Own. Newsweek, 8 May 2000).
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The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11
years old (Internet Pornography Statistics. Internet Filter
Review, 2004).
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The largest consumer of Internet pornography is the 12-17 age
group (Internet Pornography Statistics. Internet Filter Review,
2004).
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sites on the Web generate at least $1 billion per
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"Sex on the net is like heroin. It
grabs them and takes over their
lives. And it's very difficult to treat
because the people affected don't
want to give it up."
- Dr. Mark Schwartz,
Masters and Johnson
Institute in St. Louis.
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1. Addiction
2. Escalation
3. Desensitization
4. Acting out sexually
5. Anti-social
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75 percent of prime time television in the 1999-2000
season included sexual content (Sex on TV: Content and
Context. The Kaiser Family Foundation, 5 February, 2001).
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Movies have an 87% likelihood of presenting sexual
material (Sex on TV: Content and Context. The Kaiser Family
Foundation, 5 February, 2001).
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The average American adolescent will view nearly
14,000 sexual references per year (Sexuality, Contraception,
and the Media. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on
Public
Education, January, 2001).
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More than 3 out of 4 Americans say the
way television programs show sex
encourages irresponsible sexual behavior
(Teens, Sex, & the Media. www.mediascope.org, 15 March, 2000).
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64 percent of all shows include sexual content, and only
15% mention waiting, protection, and consequences
(TV Sex Getting "Safer." Kaiser Family Foundation. www.kff.org,
2003).
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“The Center for Media and Public Affairs’ new study
found that sexual content is featured once every four
minutes on network TV, with 98% of all sexual content
having no subsequent physical consequences, 85% of
sexual behavior having no lasting emotional
impact, and that nearly 75% of the participants
in sexual activity were unmarried.”
(New look at TV sex and
violence. National Catholic Register, 16-22 April 2000).
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Sexual content on prime-time TV more
than tripled in the past ten years (More TV Sex,
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Today. 30 March, 2000).
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40 percent of teenagers have gotten ideas for how to talk
to their boyfriends and girlfriends about sexual issues
from entertainment media (Teens, Sex, & the Media. Media
Scope. 2001).
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Teens ages 13-15 rank entertainment media as the top
source of information about sexuality and sexual health
(Teens, Sex, & the Media. Media Scope. 2001).
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Youth exposed to sexual content on television are more
likely to overestimate the frequency of sexual
activity among peers and have more
permissive attitudes toward premarital sex.
(State of the Nation: Challenges Facing STD Prevention
in Youth. American Social Health Association, 2005).
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 Educational –
 Informational –
 Wholesome
Entertainment -
Proverbs 6:27 (NKJV)
Can a man take fire to his
bosom, And his
clothes not be burned?
 Used for Spiritual
things -
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Seventy-eight percent of girls and 88% of guys said
they listen to music "often," as opposed to "seldom"
or "sometimes." They named nearly 150 different
favorite artists. The most popular musical genre was
hard/modern rock (e.g. Dave Matthews, Limp Bizkit,
Creed) to which 52% claimed to listen. Rap (e.g.
Triple 6 Mafia, Eminem, Snoop Dog) was the second
in popularity with 38% saying they listened. . . . It is
notable, especially to concerned parents, that some
hard rock and rap music often contain the most
objectionable lyrics and themes.
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Rap videos often
promote drug use,
violence and sex, .
..
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(A prospective study of
exposure to rap music
video and African
American female
adolescents’ health,
Wingood GM et
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of
 Evidence suggest that
certain beats and
sounds can influence
attitude and perception –
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 Many of the lyrics are
immoral and sexually
explicit –
 Many of the lyrics
condone, promote, and
even glorify sin –
 The exaltation of
ungodly people –
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Think About It!!
• Do not expect a person who views
pornography to have pure
thoughts!
• Do not expect a person who views
hours of sexually explicit television
and sexual innuendo to be
unharmed!
• Do not expect a teenager, (or
anyone else for that matter), who
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Think About It!!
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The lamp of the body is the eye – Mat.
6:22-23
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You can commit adultery within
the heart - Mat. 5:27-28
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If your right eye causes you to sin, . . .
- Mat. 5:29-30
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. . . Make no provision for the flesh, to
fulfill its lusts. – Rom. 13:14
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of
it spring the issues of life. ProverbsW. 65th4:23
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1 Thes. 5:21-23 (NKJV)
Test all things; hold fast what is good.
[22] Abstain from every form of evil.
[23] Now may the God of peace
Himself sanctify you completely; and
may your whole spirit, soul, and body
be preserved blameless at the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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