Showing posts with label porn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porn. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Tommy's Porn Testimony

I have had a few requests for the Tommy testimony that was supposed to be on my post: Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag. Click HERE to see Youtube version.

I just found another great blog called: Stuff Christians Like... Here's a few sentences to wet your appetite : )
There are 12 billion reasons for me to write that sentence and 2 for me to not write it. The two are my in-laws, as this is bound to be the kind of post you hate for your mother-in law to read. And the ladies in her bible study aren't much better. But
So click here to read the rest of this really good post...


Lastly if you haven't checked out the website on our church series called My Lame Sex Life then click HERE

Friday, 18 April 2008

Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag

In gearing up for my message on 'Porn: Whats the big deal?' which I will speak at the conclusion of our series entitled: My Lame Sex Life (check out www.mylamesexlife.co.nz)... I thought I'd show you Tommy's story (you can find more these stories at XXXCHURCH)

Thursday, 21 February 2008

You Are Not Alone

I suppose we like to think that as Christians we don't struggle with things like porn... unforgivness... hatred... racism... etc. But the truth is we do!

Porn is a major problem today... and if you don't believe me... then just check out the stats below that I got from XXXCHURCH:


Get The Facts

One of the problems with porn is it makes you feel that you are all alone. The reality is that you are not. Check out the stats below and see how many people are involved in the world of porn.

Pornography Industry Statistics

Size of the Industry $57.0 billion world-wide - $12.0 billion US

Adult Videos $20.0 billion

Escort Services $11.0 billion

Magazines $7.5 billion

Sex Clubs $5.0 billion

Phone Sex $4.5 billion

Cable & Pay Per View $2.5 billion

Internet $2.5 billion

CD-ROM $1.5 billion

Novelties $1.0 billion

Other $1.5 billion


Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises.

US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, & NBC (6.2 billion).

Child pornography generates $3 billion annually.

Internet Porn Statistics

Pornographic Website's 4.2 million (12% of total website's)

Pornographic Pages 372 million

Daily Pornographic Search Engine Requests 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)

Daily Pornographics Emails 2.5 billion (8% of total emails)

Avg. Daily Pornographic Emails/User 4.5 per internet user

Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)

Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests 116 thousand

Website's offering illegal child pornography 100 thousand

Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms 89%

Youths who received sexual solicitation 20%

Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites 72 million annually



Children's Exposure to Pornography

Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography 11 years old

Largest Consumer of Internet Pornography 12-17 age group

15-17 year olds having multiple hardcore exposures 80%

8-16 year olds having viewed porn online 90% (most while doing homework)

7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address 29%

7-17 year olds who would freely give out email addresses 14%

Children's characters linked to thousands of porn links 26 (including Pokeman and Action Man)



Adult Internet Porn Statistics

Men admitting to accessing porn at work 20%

US adults who regularly visit internet porn sites 40 million

Promise Keepers men who viewed porn in the last week 53%

Christians who say porn is a major problem in the home 47%

Adults admitting to internet sexual addiction 10%

Breakdown of male/female visitors to porn sites 72% male - 28% female



Women & Pornography

13% of Women admit to accessing porn at work.

70% of women keep their cyber activities secret.

17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction.

Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.

Women favor chat rooms 2X's more than men.

1 out of 3 visitors to adult website's are women.

9.4 million women access adult website's each month.


Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Porn Sunday

Porn Sunday is coming soon to Eastside Church in Hamilton New Zealand...

As I research the subject, and hear people's struggles I am amazed at the wide spread cancer that has infected our communities. The Web site www.pornsunday.com estimates there are 4.2 million pornographic sites online with 40 million visitors daily. I think that if everyone in church honestly answered the question, 'Have you viewed porn in the last month' that we would fall off of our seats as we saw just so many hands going up.

If you are struggling with porn...
1) Know that you are not alone
2) Get help... will power will never get you out of this mess
3) Ask Jesus to change you from the inside out... and stay away from anything that can lure you back to your old ways

Getting back to point 2... click THIS LINK to get free accountability software.
Although the above 3 points might seem simple... the process is no easy one. It will possibly be the greatest challenge that you have faced in your life!!!
But you don't need to stay where you're at...

Godspeed & Kaizan