Porn in the
We
posted an article 2 years ago about a ministry that deals solely with the issue
of Porn among Christians and according to the surveys and information provided
in that article there are not only many church members using porn, but a high
percentage of Pastors and other Ministers are users of Porn.
We strongly
believe that the use of pornography via the Internet is common place throughout
the mass of bible believing Christians; whether Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Pentecostal,
and Charismatic.
The finding here in
this article is not shocking. Christians
and the use of pornography is an issue that has been hidden in darkness, but
now as it were coming to light, and it is so to speak, being
proclaimed from the housetops.
At this time we will not explore this issue
in the normal depth that we would, due to weakness and infirmity. But when able
we will come back and visit this issue and bring as much scripture as we are
able to bear.
8 of
Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
New Scientist
By EWEN CALLAWAY
Feb. 28, 2009
Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright
shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little
across the nation: the liking for online pornography.
A new nationwide study (pdf) of
anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in
consumption between states.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than
different," says Benjamin Edelman at
However, there are some trends to be seen in the data.
Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and
religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to
be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman
says.
Political Divide
Edelman spends part of his time helping companies such as
Microsoft and AOL detect advertising fraud. Another consulting client runs
dozens of adult websites, though he says he is not at liberty to identify the
firm.
That company did, however, provide Edelman with roughly
two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that included a purchase date
and each customer's postal code.
After controlling for differences in broadband internet
access between states – online porn tends to be a bandwidth hog – and adjusting
for population, he found a relatively small difference between states with the
most adult purchases and those with the fewest.
The biggest consumer,
Number 10 on the list was
Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave
their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election –
Old-Fashioned Values
Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1%
increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1%
drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week
brought them in line with the rest of the country, Edelman finds.
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay
marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly
restrict gay marriage.
To get a better handle on other associations between
social attitudes and pornography consumption, Edelman melded his data with a
previous study on public attitudes toward religion.
States where a majority of residents agreed with the
statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage,"
bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority
disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be
God's punishment for immoral sexual behavior."
"One natural hypothesis is something like repression:
if you're told you can't have this, then you want it more," Edelman says.