I find it interesting that people are sentenced to decades in prison for producing, distributing, downloading, receiving, or giving someone child porn, yet we can make porn with eighteen-year-old’s and it’s dandy.
Looking through statistics tonight, it’s no wonder there are so many child predators and rapists around. Where we live, alone, has dozens of these men (mostly men) around. There have been several arrests in recent years of pimps here who were prostituting not only women, but children. Then there’s the big craigslist prostitution thing. Men have been selling women and children on craigslist for sex. Like an internet sex-trafficking kinda thing. There’s also tons of arrests just in my local town for forcing children to have sex and producing and distributing child porn.
Statistics show that 90% of prostitutes have pimps and 12 is the average age “women” enter prostitution.
On MSNBC there’s a story about a NJ pimp who enslaved prostitutes. He forced them to use drugs so he could control them, took away their cell phones and identifications, and kept them locked in rooms. If they didn’t meet a daily quota of $1,000 they were physically abused.
There’s also a man in our local prison who was sentenced to over 60 years in prison for pimping children and making them create child porn.
Pimps, prostitutes, child porn, rape, sex-trafficking, child abuse, porn production and distribution – it’s in your backyard.
I wonder if WE realize how much we contribute to the sexual crimes happening in our backyards. Do we even realize what’s going on around us?
I don’t understand why all of these sex crimes are illegal, but porn is legal for people over 18. Hmmm….
Porn is a good chunk of the REASON these sex crimes exist. Porn users don’t look at softcore and stay there. They get bored and look for something more interesting, eventually looking at rape porn. Did you know there is a video game that gives you points for molesting women and raping them? Yes.
And porn doesn’t start with porn. The movies we watch, the sexual pop stars we watch, the sexual music we listen to, the sexual attire we let our teens wear – all of it contributes to this. All of it.
By watching that movie with that “mild” sex scene, we contribute to this, because we show Hollywood that sex sells, so they keep producing it. But if everyone stopped watching it … I’m pretty sure they’d find another niche.
But they don’t need to. Sex sells. Period. Teens eat it up. Husbands eat it up. Wives eat it up. And we all stare at our screens glossed over as a sex scene struts on by, then we turn on the news, see a rape that happened down the street … and we wonder why, how?
It’s all connected. And we all give in. Even me. Even you. We make choices we don’t even realize that play into all of this. We are not careful about the things we let into our homes, our children’s hearts, and our own souls. We don’t think about it most of the time. We just let it slide on in and think nothing of it. Think about Grease for example … all of the sex in it.
When I was a kid one of my good friends and me used to tie each other to the bed and “rape” each other for pretend. We used to pose for fake pictures in sexual positions. This was before I was even in middle school. I didn’t think anything of it, I wasn’t trying to be bad, neither was she, we were just doing what we saw on movies.
I remember watching Legends of the Fall when I was fourteen years old. This was before I lost my virginity. When the sex scene came on I actually got up to find porn on the computer.
My point is … movies, even the PG-13 ones we think are harmless, harm us. And if we don’t believe they do … we are deceived.
The reality of the sex industry is painful. There are pimps everywhere. Prostitutes everywhere. Husbands leaving their wives to look at porn. Wives leaving their husbands to have sex with another man. Seven-year-old’s logging on to porn sites. Ten-year-old’s being prostituted and forced to make child porn with a man in his forties.
But the reality of the sex industry is something we contribute to.
The devil is sneaky, isn’t he?
Women don’t realize how much their short skirts play into this big circle of lust, sex, and lies. There is a hungry beast, he wants sex, everything sex, and we feed it to him with our short skirts, sex-saturated movies, pop stars, lustful eyes, and porn. We feed him and he spits more out, salivating on the whole world in the form of prostitution, insecurity, betrayal, deception, porn, rape, abuse, addiction, etc.
The sex crimes happening around us are not beyond our reach. We don’t have to watch the news, shake our heads, and wonder what to do. The porn industry, it’s not beyond our reach. Neither is prostitution. There are so many things we can do, and it starts with our own hearts – what we let in them, and what we let out.
We can also do something I NEVER thought about until tonight. We can search through the sex offenders on Megan’s Law, print out their names and pictures, then pray for them. Pick one every day to pray for all day. Remember, they are broken souls too, not just their victims. Those men (and women) shouldn’t be hated, what they DO should be. What SATAN does should be. Satan is the laughing, smiling deceiver behind all of this.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be deceived. I want to do whatever I can to NOT play a part in the sexual perversions of this world. And we CAN make a difference. The sex industry may never go down, but if we all come together with faith, believing that it could, God can work miracles.
Sexual sins have always been around. They won’t go away. But this is the worst it’s ever been. Look around, look at the movies on your shelf, look at the magazines in the checkout line, the posters in the mall, the clothing teenagers wear — it’s everywhere, but that doesn’t mean we have to be a part of it.
To the rapists in prison a few blocks from me — you are loved and one day you are going to look back and realize … it wasn’t worth it.
We aren’t much different than rapists, child pornographers, and pimps. We don’t realize how much God loves us, so we treat ourselves with little respect. We don’t honor our eyes and take care of what they see. We don’t honor our bodies and take care of what they do and receive. We don’t honor our souls, because we forget how valuable they are. And in the process we hurt others without realizing it. We hurt ourselves. And one day we will realize …
It wasn’t worth it.
We are worth more than that. We all are. Jesus said so when He breathed His last breath on the cross. To see ourselves as worthless, to see others as worthless (even rapists), is to call God a liar.
And He’s not.
