Page 24 - MyFaith Mag February 2017 PRINT

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WHY INTERNET PORN IS A BIGGER RISK
THAN YOU THINK

PHIL COOKE

One of the areas where the online world continues to grow
is pornography. But as younger viewers are seeing more
and more explicit and violent images, new research may
finally make young men re-think their habits. Today, men
under the age of 40 account for 25% of all erectile dysfunc-
tion patients – and the number is rising. It’s becoming more
and more clear that pornography is the reason.
A new BBC documentary “Brought Up on Porn” blames
Internet pornography. The film features Angela Gregory
– a psychosexual therapist at the Chandos Clinic at Not-
tingham University Hospital. Her research concludes that
watching Internet porn desensitizes young men to the point
that during “normal” sex they’re unable to become stimu-
lated.
And if that’s not enough, she discovered that porn view-
ers grow increasingly unsatisfied with what they’re watch-
ing – which means they must graduate to higher levels of
graphic sexual violence. Talk about addiction…
The good news is that it can be fixed, but it takes months to
recover. But the unquestionable truth is that it’s time to real-
ize the damage of pornography and shut it down.