The Real Numbers & Porn's Effect!
By The Time You Read This 197,806 People Have Looked At Porn.
Even though pornography addiction is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis yet, most research studies have concluded that the number of teenage boys visiting porn sites at least once a day has reached epidemic rates. Some teenage boys have self reported going to porn sites five to 10 times a day. Therefore, while the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) does not list porn addiction as a formal diagnosis, many researchers and clinicians believe that people, especially teenage boys can become addicted to pornography very quickly.
Overall, most of the men and women report feeling isolated and lonely due to pornography. They felt embarrassed to tell their families or to seek help. Even if they wanted help, they did not know where to go to get help. Find the root cause is in many cases, a softer approach into the discussion.
STAGGERING GROWTH DUE TO EASY ACCESS TO ADULT CONTENT.
When the internet first entered public consciousness in the early 1990's, a prominent media entrepreneur described it as a “sit up” rather than a “lean back” medium. What she meant was that it was quite different from TV, which encouraged passive consumption by a species of human known universally as the couch potato. The internet, some of us fondly imagined, would be different; it would encourage/enable people to become creative generators of their own content.
Spool forward a couple of decades and we are sadder and wiser. On any given weekday evening in many parts of the world, more than half of the data traffic on the internet is accounted for by video streaming to couch potatoes worldwide. (Except that many of them may not be sitting on couches, but watching on their smartphones in a variety of locations and postures.) The internet has turned into a billion-channel pornographic TV.
The Covid Pandemic Exploded The Porn Epidemic.
Studies have shown the COVID-19 pandemic, with its isolation, mental health stressors and other hardships, has exacerbated dependency on pornography. With one-quarter to one-third of online searches pertaining to sexually explicit materials, consumption has grown to the point of some labeling its prevalence as a "porndemic."
The Christian community has not been immune, say counselors and pastors in Colorado Springs, who've been engaged in the battle against porn addiction.
"Porn is everywhere, so even if you're not looking for it, it's there, and if you're feeling lonely, sad or scared, boom! This is something that excites you," said Nate Havens, a former pornography addict who works as a pastoral coach and counselor with Growing Hope Christian Counseling of Colorado Springs.