Information Related to "Pornography: Definitely Not for Adults"
| Audio/Video |
Pornography
Definitely Not for Adults
Recent decades
have seen an explosion in pornography.
It’s big business, grossing $10 billion in the United States alone.
But that’s only a tiny part of the story.
by Melvin Rhodes
You can’t have it both ways. If com- panies are willing to spend millions on advertising to promote their products because advertisements influence people to buy, then pornography must also influence people’s minds. If looking at an image of a commercial product makes people want to buy it, then pornographic images must influence people’s behavior.
Porn is big industry. Trade in the “bodies and souls” of human beings (Revelation 18:13) has become one of the biggest growth industries in our modern prophesied economic system. Consider:
“Porno is far bigger than rock music and far bigger than Hollywood.
“Americans spend more on strip clubs than they spend on theater, opera, ballet, jazz and classical-music concerts—combined.
“In 1972 the total retail value of all the hardcore porno sold in America was esti- mated at $5 million to $10 million. By the late ’90s Americans spent $10 billion per year on mediated sex” (Martin Amis, “Sex in America,” Talk magazine, February 2001).
Southern California’s San Fernando Valley is home of the booming U.S. pornographic-film industry, producing more than 10,000 titles a year that are shown all over the world. America produces 80 percent of the world’s porn.
A brief history of porn
Pornography has been around for thousands of years. But in the last three decades it has boomed, partly because of liberal legislation in Western democracies that removed barriers to production and distribution, and partly thanks to technological advances that have made it easy for tens of millions of people to access porn who previously would never have done so for fear of being found out.
Related Information on UCG Sites:
Sidebar: The Growing Plague of Child Pornography
Table of Contents that includes "Pornography: Definitely Not for Adults"
Other Articles by Melvin Rhodes
Sexual obsession: