Writing for The American Conservative, Rob Dreher interacts with a recent Time magazine article and Denny Burk.
Time magazine’s cover story this week is about what ubiquitous hardcore pornography is doing to men. I can’t link to it because it’s a subscribers-only piece, but Southern Baptist pastor Denny Burk has a detailed (but not NSFW) rundown of what it reports. The gist of it is that porn is changing the brains of young men, who have been watching it from a young age, such that they are impotent with actual women. Burk, quoting the article:
A growing number of young men are convinced that their sexual responses have been sabotaged because their brains were virtually marinated in porn when they were adolescents. Their generation has consumed explicit content in quantities and varieties never before possible, on devices designed to deliver content swiftly and privately, all at an age when their brains were more plastic—more prone to permanent change—than in later life. These young men feel like unwitting guinea pigs in a largely unmonitored decade-long experiment in sexual conditioning.
Read the rest here.
See also:
Pornography: 8 Suggestions for Sticking a Needle In Your Eye
The Porn Free Family Plan (Tim Challies)
The Top 5 Free Ways to Protect Against Internet Pornography (Tim Michalek)
For help implementing a family policy, and for saying no to Internet enabled devices, see Parents Memorize This Speech (Chris Brauns)
Please Don’t Give Them Porn for Christmas (Tim Challies)
Parenting in a Hyper-Sexualized Culture (Heath Lambert)
The Most Insidious Drug (Chris Brauns)
What’s at Stake with Internet Pornography (Russell Moore)
Is Pornography the New Tobacco (Mary Eberstadt)
Pornography: The New Normal (Carl Trueman)
Pornography: The New Narcotic (John Piper)
Hijacking Back Your Brain from Porn (John Piper)
Porn, Pride, and Praise (Heath Lambert)
Children Playing Outside Requires Leadership. Here’s Three Suggestions (Chris Brauns)
Russell Moore: Fake Love, Fake War and the Dangers of Pornography and the Internet
Pornification: Just the Facts (Ed Stetzer)
A Study on the Effects of Pornography
Recommended Reading:
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Heath Lambert)
Counsel to Men Addicted to Pornography (Ed Welch)
Pornified: How Pornography is Damaging Our Live, Our Relationships, and Our Families (Pamela Paul)
When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (John Piper)
Wired for Intimacy. How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain (William Struthers)
Sexual Detox (an e-book by Tim Challies)
Recommended Videos:
I Am Struggling With Pornography and Need Help. What’s My First Step (Heath Lambert)
What Should I Do When My Husband is Looking at Pornography (Heath Lambert)
You Can Say No to Porn (John Piper)
The Key to Escaping Porn (John Piper)
