Over the past few months, there have been a series of teenage crimes involving the violent rape of young women, with the perpetrators recording the events on electronic devices, and then sharing the images with friends, and, or on social media sites. Two of the women later committed suicide. A mother of one victim, who later saw the video of her daughter being violated said: “It was almost as if he [the rapist] was performing for an audience.” As I have blogged about repeatedly, we are living in a population of would-be porn-stars. Just this week, a girl who participated in MTV's Teen Mom shopped her amateur porn video around the porn-pushers of Southern California. The children of today are raised on porn. It's normal and accepted. But, their brains are literally being rewired. According to one study:
In recent years, scientists have done brain scans of children from early childhood through to age 20 to track brain development. For years the assumption had been that that gray matter — the thinking part of the brain — peaked at early childhood and gradually decreased. Instead, scans indicate that the volume of gray matter is highest during early adolescence, giving the brain enhanced elasticity, yet delaying its progress into adulthood. That’s because gray matter matures in a back-to-front pattern with the frontal lobe the last to develop. This is perhaps most relevant, as this part of the brain is responsible for executive functions, such as planning, controlling impulses, judgment and reasoning. MRI scans of teen brains also show that it is actively involved in a process of building neural connections, and thus the gray matter forges and prunes neural pathways. Scientists believe the “use-it-or-lose-it” process is actively at work here — and that how a teenager spends his days and nights will likely determine how his brain will ultimately be wired. Brain scans have also found the teenage brain is dominated by areas associated with pleasure and reward, and emotional response, perhaps explaining the emotional roller-coaster years associated with puberty. This volatile situation taking place within the teenage brain may make it more susceptible to the lure and long-term effects of pornography, scientists believe.
This is nothing less than a form of brain-washing. Children are being conditioned to accept certain behaviors as normal. This is achieved by repeatedly viewing these behaviors over and over again. But this cycle is not limited to porn. For porn has leached its way into every sector of the popular media: films, television, music, fashion, and literature. Nancy Drew has been replaced by Fifty Shades of Grey. The image-based media has sunk lower. When I was a kid, Madonna was taboo. Sadly, even the blonde-bombshells of the 1950s would have blushed at the antics of today's Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. What was once forbidden is no longer shocking. And, the process begins with children, even before they see their first genuine pornographic image: with the the soft-core world of the so-called main-stream entertainment outlets serving as the master of initiation into more explicit forms of porn. Therefore, by the time a child sees his or her first picture of hardcore porn, there is very little moral impact. The brain has already been damaged. Thankfully, Our Creator has provided us with a remedy: the Love of Jesus Christ. I am living proof. At one time in my life, no sexual act, no matter how disgusting, vulgar, or unhygienic, was off-limits. I was intimidated by nothing. After 13 years - out of that life, I can honestly testify that sometimes the slightest exposure to anything even semi-pornographic disturbs me. The Lord, as He did with the Blind Man, placed His salve over my eyes, and I washed them in the Pool of Siloam. I have been healed. So can you.
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