Porn is Looking for Your Kid
by Matt Fradd
After a recent talk, in which I spoke of the destructive effects of pornography and thus the necessity for accountability software such as Covenant Eyes, a parent said to me, “my kid’s not into that stuff,” implying that she needn’t purchase the CDs I was selling nor look into Covenant Eyes.
I said to her what I’ve said to other parents: “It doesn’t matter if your kid’s not intentionally looking for porn, porn is intentionally looking for him!”
A Growing Epidemic
We are witnessing the beginning of nothing less than an epidemic of porn addiction among teens and even younger children.
Take Nathan for example:
When Nathan started using internet pornography, he found that over time it somehow got less and less exciting. His daily routine soon included hours spent consuming porn, yet he had grown “almost numb to it,” he recalls.
Like many men with addictions, he was discovering that the compulsive use of porn dulls the pleasure receptors of the brain, forcing them to seek ever-greater amounts of stimulation in a desperate quest for sexual satisfaction.
But Nathan was not yet a man. He was just twelve years old.