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World News and Trends, Nov/Dec 1998
Pornographic films outsell regular movies: a civil war in American values
New and disturbing communiqués concerning Western morality are cause for
concern. According to Christopher Goodwin, reporting for The Sunday Times from
Los Angeles: "America has become addicted to porn. Encouraged by the liberal atmosphere
of the Clinton era, adult entertainment has grown into a $10 billion-a-year business.
As much as $4.2 billion is generated by videos alone . . . Americans spend
more on hard-core porn, telephone sex and strip clubs than they do at the (regular)
cinemas."
In a separate report for The Independent on Sunday, John Carlin writes about
"a revolution under way in America . . . It's about the birds and the bees.
Reading the newspapers these days, watching TV, listening in on conversations in
bars, in lifts (elevators), what you get is a steady diet of sex, sex and more sex."
At the same time, some surveys show that nearly 80 percent of Americans still believe
adultery is always wrong. Apparently many citizens in this land of liberty and opportunity
still believe in biblical standards.
Still, there is no denying that marketing illicit sex is a growth industry. So what
we are seeing is an approaching civil war in values. There can be no compromise between
these two basic ways of life. Obedience to the Seventh Commandment makes true happiness
possible in our families; disobedience leads to suffering and misery.
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