When it comes to sex and pornography, our popular culture certainly provides an interesting frame.
Those backwards anti-sex prudes, they’re the repressed weirdos. Meanwhile, those who base their dating lives on the glamorized pornography they consume are supposed to be well-adjusted. We should all aim to be so sex-positive! Or so the narrative goes …
The Daily Caller’s latest documentary, “Selling Sex,” takes a hard look at this narrative that’s proliferated since the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. It turns out there’s a very dark side to the pornography industry — and it’s the people cheering it on who are often worst affected.
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The Daily Caller’s investigative team spoke to people on all sides of the pornography industry. We sat down with creators, producers, activists, recruiters — and victims recovering from years of pornography addiction who thought everything was fine until they hit their breaking point.
Noah Church is a recovering porn addict who’s now open about his struggles as a younger man. Today, he’s a well-adjusted man in a healthy relationship. But that was only after years of pornography abuse that started when he was only 9 or 10 years old.
“I was hooked; it was a rush,” Church told the Daily Caller.
Looking back, Church thinks the problem with porn is that it doesn’t promote a traditional, ideal sex life, but rather, “It’s transgressive. It’s often abusive and violent. And that’s because the audience has been desensitized.”
And why wouldn’t they be? We live in a culture that increasingly says all forms of sexual activity are perfectly fine, normal, morally equal. So it’s no wonder that as the bounds of acceptability expand our desires broaden as well.
This is precisely the problem. In liberal areas with an anything-goes attitude towards sex, kids are growing up with access to ubiquitous digital porn without any warning of the addictive, stultifying harm it can cause.
“In areas where the attitudes about sex are more liberal,” Church explains, “it doesn’t necessarily help those who are struggling with a problematic porn use issue because the message that they’ve heard a lot is that porn is okay, like it’s okay to use porn.”
Kids grow up thinking it’s normal, especially in liberal areas. They don’t see anything wrong with it because the adults who should know better don’t tell them. And like Church, many are fomenting addictions that they won’t realize is a problem until it’s too late.
“Selling Sex” shows that the solutions don’t have to fall into the binary choice our culture suggests. We don’t have to ban porn completely, but we shouldn’t act like it’s an absolute good with no downsides, either. The solution comes from educating the new generation on it’s risks like we do with every other addictive substance in America.
Watch “Selling Sex” today to learn about all the hidden risks the pornography industry doesn’t want you to know.
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This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
