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Pornography
Big Business
Pornography is a $12-$13 billion-a-year industry—more than the combined annual revenues of the Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas corporations.
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Electronic Porn
An Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall
Playboy’s electronic headquarters received 4.7 million hits (electronic visits) in a recent seven-day period.
Porn video rentals soared to 665 million in 1996, accounting for 13.3% of video rentals in America. Profits of sales and rentals of porn videos was $4.2 billion in 1996.
USA Today, 9-5-97 & UPI News, 11-19-97
The Arts
“Americans now spend more money at strip clubs than at Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and nonprofit theaters; at the opera, the ballet, and jazz and classical music performances combined.”
U.S. News & World Report, 2-10-97
Mood Altering
Pornography consumption can be as “mood altering” and addictive as narcotics, reports a study by Richard Drake, assistant professor at Brigham Young University College of Nursing.
The average age of first time contact of pornography among sex addicts is 11.
American Family Assoc. OutReach, 1997
Promise Keepers
Twenty-one percent of committed Promise Keepers in April 1996 reported that purity (Promise 3) was the most difficult to keep.
Promise Keepers survey
Related to Satisfaction
More sophisticated analysis reveals that men who had purchased pornographic materials in the past year had significantly lower marital, fathering and family-life satisfaction when compared to those who had not purchased pornographic materials in the past year.
National Center for Fathering, quoted in The Promise Keeper
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner’s Playboy just celebrated its 40th anniversary. So why has it been so successful?
“Other magazines were showing naked women even back in the ‘50s, but they weren’t women who looked so cheerful and healthy and, well, wholesome,” says Boston Globe writer Mark Feeney. “Nor were they being displayed in a context that suggested, hey, everyone’s doing it—or at least everyone who drives a ‘vette and plays Frank on a with-it hi-fi system and is, like, cool, daddy-o—so come on in, the water in the kidney-shaped pool is just fine.”
Spokesman Review, December 24, 1993, p. D2.
Resources
- The Rebirth of America, A. S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986, pp. 99ff
- The Moral Catastrophe, David Hocking, Harvest House, 1990, pp. 101ff
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