Way Short of Heaven

I have never paid for a bit of porn in my life, but I’ve seen entirely too much of it.  And it’s not like there aren’t already a handful of really good reasons to not look at porn, but yet another one struck me recently.

My friend was telling me about a sermon where the pastor was talking about his buddy’s church on Las Vegas. Most of this church is made up of people who work in Vegas, including strippers, prostitutes, and porn stars. They come to this church because they realize that they need Jesus, and yet they go back to their jobs because they don’t feel like they have another options. The work is there, it pays good, and they don’t really have any other marketable skills. Maybe they have a child or two to feed, and everyone has bills.

So the pastor goes on to talk about a girl who had asked him how to deal with her boyfriend who had recently been to Vegas, and stopped in at a strip club while he was there. He told her it wasn’t huge deal, and he wouldn’t do it again.

The pastor gets angry as he talks about men like that, and how they are selfish. About how they don’t realize that not only are they hurting those closest to them, but they are also being an enabler, and supporting the strippers lifestyle.

The same thing applies to online porn. Free online porn. You aren’t shelling out a dime for it, but the page is covered in ads, and that is how the porn you look at is ‘free’. The more the page is viewed, the more ad money is earned. When you click on an ad, you give them even more money.

Porn is never free. Every time you look at porn, someone is getting paid. Don’t support it.

I hope you can see hhow porn destroy’s people’s lives from this post, but also consider the more close to home and obvious damage that takes place when you look at porn. A woman named Amy just commented on a post from a while back about x3 Watch about how porn killing her – all because her husband is addicted, and won’t even admit his fault.

I know this can be a beast that seems impossible to beat, but there is so much at stake here. It is a big deal.