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I live in a quiet subdivision in rural Ontario. I mean very quietāall summer long, I rarely saw any kids outside biking or playing street hockey or running flimsy lemonade stands or just roughhousing around. Then, the day school started, I was shocked when I left my house in the morning and I saw kids everywhere, backpacks in tow, heading to bus stops and walking to the nearby school. This many kids live in my neighborhood? I thought to myself. Where were they all summer?
There are a number of possible answers, of course. Some were probably on vacation. Some were probably shipped off to camp by their parents. But many of them were likely inside the house, glued to screens. One You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. found that, ā10- to 16-year-olds in Canada get an average of 6 hours and 37 minutes of screen time per day. The largest source of screen time is television (2 hours and 39 min) followed by computers (2 hours and 7 min) and video games (1 hour and 51 min).ā
The problems apparent in these numbers go far beyond stunted creativity, childhood obesity, and, I would argue, the fact that these children are being deprived of a childhood by zoning out in front of screens. The problem is that many, many of these children will end up finding and looking at pornography. That pornography will shape the way they view *** as they grow older. Those views will shape how they treat themselves and others. Keep in mind that the average boy, for example, is first exposed to pornography at the age of eleven.
I speak on *** and pornography in high schools quite often, and every time I do Iām faced with a dilemma: The adults in the room are likely to be shocked, horrified, and upset when I confront the students with the reality of what online **** is and why it is so dangerous. However, the teenagers for the most part are not even remotely shocked. Most of them have seen the things Iām talking about. Increasingly, and chillingly, they have even been coerced or pressured into trying the dark perversions they see unfolding on their iPad, computer, and smartphone screens. Itās gotten to the point where Iām relieved when teenagers are shocked by one of my presentationsāit means that theyāve heard the information in time to avoid the clutching webs of the Internet **** industry.
Iām quite often accused of being an alarmist by adults and church leaders who canāt quite believe just how pervasive **** use and **** exposure is among the very young. Iām often told that this is the reason that having a presentation on pornography would be ātoo controversial.ā Quite frankly, I wish they were right. But consider just a few of these statistics:
35% of teen boys say they have viewed pornographic videos āmore times than they can count.ā
15% of boys and 9% of girls have seen child pornography.
32% of boys and 18% of girls have seen bestiality online.
39% of boys and 23% of girls have seen sexual bondage online.
83% of boys and 57% of girls have seen group *** online.
Iāve met more teens than I can count whose first exposure to ****āand not just ānormalā **** but dark, violent **** that in 2014 is now mainstreamāwas at the ages of ten or eleven. Iāve met parents who tell me how relieved they are that their children never had a **** problem, when Iāve spoken to their children and I know that their children did, in fact, struggle with ****. After one presentation, I even had an anonymous letter sent to me by a wife and mother who revealed that throughout my presentation on pornography, she felt relieved that her husband would never look at such things. She found out a short time later that he had been looking at pornography for a long time.
It is not alarmist to say that this problem is everywhere. Itās a grim fact.
Last week I spoke at a high school conference for Christian schools. One of the things I like to do to show the teachers and other adults just how essential it is to provide teens with the truth about pornography is to hold an open forumālet the students write down any and all questions they have about the topic and submit them to be answered. Every time, teachers are shocked by what the students are asking as they realize just how far this menace has spread and how badly it has infected our schools.
At the last conference, for example, I had a fourteen-year-old girl ask me what girls should do when their boyfriends pressure them into anal *** (hugely popular in mainstream **** right now.) I had teen boys asking me how to deal with their ********tion problems. I was asked why **** sites were so addicting. I was asked by one girl why so many boys were demanding oral ***. And I was even asked questions about bestiality in ****, questions I even had a hard time believing teens of that age could be asking.
With access to the Internet everywhere, it is not simply enough to filter the Internet in our homes and install accountability software on our electronic devices, although all of these steps are absolutely essential. In todayās day and age, where kids and teens are going to find **** if they want to or if theyāre curious, they have to be spoken to honestly about what pornography is and why it will destroy their minds, their relationships, and their souls. They need to know why so much of what they see in **** is dark and evil, and why these things have no place in the context of a loving relationship.
I read a column from Anthony Esolen called āWhat they will never knowā a few years back, and he beautifully highlights what the teens of today are being robbed of: āOur teenagers who know so much about the mechanics of copulation miss the sweetness of simple humanity. People used to sing merrily about holding a girlās hand while walking home from the danceāholding a hand. With that touch, they knew the thrill, perhaps for the first time, of being deemed worthy of love. What is it like, to be a boy or a girl who could be made dizzyingly happy by so simple a touch? We will never know.ā
The **** plague has spread far and dizzyingly fast. But if we talk to teens openly, and show them not only why the darkness of pornography is so dangerous but why the alternative of healthy human sexuality is so beautiful, then this generation will still have a chance. It is up to us to provide that chance.
I live in a quiet subdivision in rural Ontario. I mean very quietāall summer long, I rarely saw any kids outside biking or playing street hockey or running flimsy lemonade stands or just roughhousing around. Then, the day school started, I was shocked when I left my house in the morning and I saw kids everywhere, backpacks in tow, heading to bus stops and walking to the nearby school. This many kids live in my neighborhood? I thought to myself. Where were they all summer?
There are a number of possible answers, of course. Some were probably on vacation. Some were probably shipped off to camp by their parents. But many of them were likely inside the house, glued to screens. One You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. found that, ā10- to 16-year-olds in Canada get an average of 6 hours and 37 minutes of screen time per day. The largest source of screen time is television (2 hours and 39 min) followed by computers (2 hours and 7 min) and video games (1 hour and 51 min).ā
The problems apparent in these numbers go far beyond stunted creativity, childhood obesity, and, I would argue, the fact that these children are being deprived of a childhood by zoning out in front of screens. The problem is that many, many of these children will end up finding and looking at pornography. That pornography will shape the way they view *** as they grow older. Those views will shape how they treat themselves and others. Keep in mind that the average boy, for example, is first exposed to pornography at the age of eleven.
I speak on *** and pornography in high schools quite often, and every time I do Iām faced with a dilemma: The adults in the room are likely to be shocked, horrified, and upset when I confront the students with the reality of what online **** is and why it is so dangerous. However, the teenagers for the most part are not even remotely shocked. Most of them have seen the things Iām talking about. Increasingly, and chillingly, they have even been coerced or pressured into trying the dark perversions they see unfolding on their iPad, computer, and smartphone screens. Itās gotten to the point where Iām relieved when teenagers are shocked by one of my presentationsāit means that theyāve heard the information in time to avoid the clutching webs of the Internet **** industry.
Iām quite often accused of being an alarmist by adults and church leaders who canāt quite believe just how pervasive **** use and **** exposure is among the very young. Iām often told that this is the reason that having a presentation on pornography would be ātoo controversial.ā Quite frankly, I wish they were right. But consider just a few of these statistics:
35% of teen boys say they have viewed pornographic videos āmore times than they can count.ā
15% of boys and 9% of girls have seen child pornography.
32% of boys and 18% of girls have seen bestiality online.
39% of boys and 23% of girls have seen sexual bondage online.
83% of boys and 57% of girls have seen group *** online.
Iāve met more teens than I can count whose first exposure to ****āand not just ānormalā **** but dark, violent **** that in 2014 is now mainstreamāwas at the ages of ten or eleven. Iāve met parents who tell me how relieved they are that their children never had a **** problem, when Iāve spoken to their children and I know that their children did, in fact, struggle with ****. After one presentation, I even had an anonymous letter sent to me by a wife and mother who revealed that throughout my presentation on pornography, she felt relieved that her husband would never look at such things. She found out a short time later that he had been looking at pornography for a long time.
It is not alarmist to say that this problem is everywhere. Itās a grim fact.
Last week I spoke at a high school conference for Christian schools. One of the things I like to do to show the teachers and other adults just how essential it is to provide teens with the truth about pornography is to hold an open forumālet the students write down any and all questions they have about the topic and submit them to be answered. Every time, teachers are shocked by what the students are asking as they realize just how far this menace has spread and how badly it has infected our schools.
At the last conference, for example, I had a fourteen-year-old girl ask me what girls should do when their boyfriends pressure them into anal *** (hugely popular in mainstream **** right now.) I had teen boys asking me how to deal with their ********tion problems. I was asked why **** sites were so addicting. I was asked by one girl why so many boys were demanding oral ***. And I was even asked questions about bestiality in ****, questions I even had a hard time believing teens of that age could be asking.
With access to the Internet everywhere, it is not simply enough to filter the Internet in our homes and install accountability software on our electronic devices, although all of these steps are absolutely essential. In todayās day and age, where kids and teens are going to find **** if they want to or if theyāre curious, they have to be spoken to honestly about what pornography is and why it will destroy their minds, their relationships, and their souls. They need to know why so much of what they see in **** is dark and evil, and why these things have no place in the context of a loving relationship.
I read a column from Anthony Esolen called āWhat they will never knowā a few years back, and he beautifully highlights what the teens of today are being robbed of: āOur teenagers who know so much about the mechanics of copulation miss the sweetness of simple humanity. People used to sing merrily about holding a girlās hand while walking home from the danceāholding a hand. With that touch, they knew the thrill, perhaps for the first time, of being deemed worthy of love. What is it like, to be a boy or a girl who could be made dizzyingly happy by so simple a touch? We will never know.ā
The **** plague has spread far and dizzyingly fast. But if we talk to teens openly, and show them not only why the darkness of pornography is so dangerous but why the alternative of healthy human sexuality is so beautiful, then this generation will still have a chance. It is up to us to provide that chance.