Just say no to porn!

I'm a fairly laid-back person in most areas of life, but lately this issue of pornography has been irking me more and more...the prevalence of it, the nonchalant view of it, and the wide acceptance of it. I'm not just speaking of the Christian world, either...this is not an issue that is just something that should appall Christians.

There is this crazy breakdown in thought that justifies pornography. It's just someone's body. How did we get to the point where body and person can be so segmented and compartmentalized that we can justify objectifying other humans? And what's ironic is that this compartmentalization seems to have just the opposite effect: instead of separating body and person, it ends up defining person by body.

Some statistics show that over 40% of all internet users are viewing pornography and that in 2006, there were over 13 million searches for teen porn alone. 13 MILLION! What the crap?!

I know some people who say that the pornography is out there anyway, so their use of it makes no difference. I say that with every click, every dvd, every solicitation, you are saying, "Yes, it is perfectly fine that you sell your body, that you chop away at your self-worth, that you give away pieces of yourself as if they were worthless." We are raising up a generation of people who view themselves and others as nothing but commodities...nothing but trash. Make it stop...make it stop.