Our son was recently on a regional athletic team. During lunch after one of the away games, parents shared stories about their sons’ showering habits, which apparently included waterproof cases for their handheld devices and excessively long stretches spent behind locked doors. Wink. Wink. They all laughed. Unable to cheerfully engage, I excused myself and went for a walk.
According to statistics, their boys are in the majority. A Covenant Eye’s article confirmed “93 percent of boys are exposed to Internet porn before the age of 18. Seventy percent have spent more than 30 consecutive minutes looking at online porn on at least one occasion, and 35 percent of boys have done this on more than 10 occasions.”
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Wow, difficult questions. Even more difficult to process: are we (as a society) starting to see this as something to laugh about?
If my experiences are at all indicative of society in general, yes, I do see that folks are dismissing pornography as a problem. It is troubling.