Constant Safeguards Series

„X 26 popular children’s characters, such as Pokemon, My Little Pony and Action Man, revealed thousands of links to porn sites. 30% were hard-core. (Envisional 2000)

„X According to the Justice Department, in 1998 there were 28,000 X-rated websites, generating $925 million in revenue. Now, only three years later, there are 280,000 X- rated websites, generating over $10-20 billion in revenue (The Wall Street Journal 26 Nov. 2001).

„X 30% of all unsolicited emails contain pornographic information (Choose Your Mail.com study, October, 1999).

„X 62% of parents of teenagers are unaware that their children have accessed objectionable websites (Yankelovich Partners study, Sept. 30, 1999).

„X 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature (MSNBC /Stanford/Duquesne study, Washington Times Jan. 26, 2000).

„X 51% of pastors admit that looking at internet pornography is their biggest temptation. (Christianity Today, December 2002)

„X According to a U.S. News and World Report article, the porn industry recently took in more than $8 billion in one year. More than all revenues generated by rock and country music, more than America spent on Broadway productions, theater, ballet, jazz and classical music combined.

„X The primary pornography consumer group is boys between ages 12-17.

„X Every day, up to 30 million people log on to pornographic web-sites (CNET.com, April 28, 1999).

„X A recent study (March 2000) shows 1 in 5 adults or 20% (which is nearly 40 million people), have visited a sexually oriented web site.

„X Americans spend an estimated $8-10 billion annually on pornography. This exceeds the combined gross of ABC, CBS, and NBC, which is $6.2 billion.

„X Two hundred million copies of Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy are distributed in U.S. homes every year.

„X The combined circulation of Playboy and Penthouse exceeds that of Time and Newsweek.

„X The average age at which men first see Playboy or a similar magazine is 11.

(From www.XXXCHURCH.COM)

Pornography is a trap that ensnares men from all walks of life. However, it is not just a mans issue. Women must also deal with what they allow to fill their minds. The reason it is so important is that we become desensitized to the culture that we find ourselves thinking and acting like the culture.

¡§Everything you choose to take in through your mind can be stored up in your heart, and it is your heart that determines the direction you will take and the choices you will make in the future when confronted with temptation.¡¨

Shannon Ethridge, Every Woman¡¦s Battle

We must guard ourselves against these influences.

Steps to Safeguarding Your Mind:

1) Get computer firewalls with internet filters.

2) Cancel any subscriptions to questionable magazines.

3) Block out offensive television channels.

4) Get a computer accountability partner.

A free internet software program is available from WWW.XXXCHURCH.COM.

I have installed this on my computer and all of the office computers. It sends an e-mail every two weeks to men who I have set up as accountability partners. It tells them any objectionable website that I have visited over that time. I have also asked all of the Executive Team to put this on their computers as well.