To Catch a Predator

So what’s so bad about pornography? It isn’t real is it? No one is getting hurt by using it? So what?

These are great questions that I have tried myself. I mean watching porn wasn’t like I was running around on my wife or going to strip clubs or using prostitutes. It’s just watching images on a screen.

When you take a look at the issue of porn and particularly internet porn you see that list of victims is staggering. The first victims are the women and men and children in the videos. Many of these are the victims of human trafficking-let’s call it like it is…slavery. Psychologists tell us that the ones who are not being trafficked are typically emotionally injured by such atrocities of child molestation, incest, rape- for both men and women. A close friend of mine who died from AIDS a few years ago had been molested as a boy by his grandfather…damaged is the understatement.

Then there are some other victims. How about your kids and you family? Internet porn is fastest growing reason for divorce in America. Guys,  in case you hadn’t realized, our wives consider the use of porn to be adultery. You can add yourself into the victim list when you find out that you are unable to visit your kids, have no wife and are paying child support.

Then of course there is your job. You will certainly be a victim if you lose your job due to porn use on the job. Thousands are experiencing this humiliating end to careers. Many of these guys have already been warned but can’t seem to stop using the porn even though they know they are being watched.

Psychiatrists tell us that pornography stimulates the same pleasure sensors in men that cocaine does...crack cocaine. This is why men cannot seem to put it down regardless of the cost to their lives. They literally are hooked and can’t get away. A slave to their porn-very weird but very common.

There are other victims that I will write about as time goes by. The ones that are the recipients of insane behaviors that are triggered by the use of porn. Any of us who watched the NBC show “to Catch a Predator” could see what was happening. All of these came from the use of internet porn and the resulting acting out of what they were seeing….

If you are stuck in porn or your loved one is then get some counseling and put a wall around your computer with a good quality internet filter. There are numerous ones out there. WWW.WISECHOICE.NET is mine and it is oriented to the adult user.