Before you read any further I must warn you that this will be hard to read. It’s a horrible and sad story, but one that discusses a trend that can’t be ignored.
CONTENT WARNING!!!!
We see the effects pornography can have on men, women, marriages, and society. It’s a serious problem. Society has become accustomed to it everywhere on TV, in advertising, magazines, and the like. We’re so used to it, that we just tune it out. But the effects on children can be just as bad, or worse, and is often not talked about. That needs to change. Whether we realize it or not, it’s already having devastating effects on young lives.
The following story will just break your heart. It’s yet another sad commentary on the downgrading of our society’s conscience. As the envelope is pushed further and further, the decline and coarsening of society becomes more obvious.
I just want to point out a couple of things I observed while reading it. The first is that the Telegraph seems to completely miss the obvious. While the story frets about the over sexualization of children and society, they contribute to the problem with the “Related Stories” links such as “How to avoid 50 shades of grey injuries”. They miss the sad irony of saying there’s a problem in the story while the sidebar has an “In Sex” category and a story about mistakes women make in the bedroom. Really? Nobody thought that might seem a little hypocritical, that maybe it dilutes the message you were trying to get across?
The second thing is they completely miss, or ignore, one of the biggest contributing factors, the decline of faith in the community. The decline of morality is related to it whether they see it or not. When society denies God, refuses His moral teachings and standards, what else is there to restrain them from pursuing their baser inclinations? A strong church and church leaders helps to fight these declines in standards. Without them, you can see the results for yourself. It’s not pretty. In the UK and much of Europe God has been removed from the conversation, and the lives of it’s residents. Many in this country wish the same for us. We cannot stand by and allow that to happen. We must fight that battle, because if we don’t, who will?
Again, and I can’t stress this enough due to the adult nature of the subject,
CONTENT WARNING!!!!
From TheTelegraph.UK
““Never before has girlhood been under such a sustained assault – from ads, alcohol marketing, girls’ magazines, sexually explicit TV programmes and the hard pornography that is regularly accessed in so many teenager’s bedrooms,” says the psychologist Steve Biddulph, currently touring the country to promote a book called Raising Girls.
It is a follow-up to his best-seller Raising Boys – and they are under pressure too, being led to believe that girls will look and behave like porn stars. Our children are becoming victims of pornification.
“It is usually girls who are on the receiving end of some pretty degrading stuff,” says Claire Perry MP, who has just been appointed David Cameron’s special adviser on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. “We’ve got young girls being asked to write their names on their @#%@# and send pictures. Parents would be really shocked to know this is happening in pretty much every school in the country. Our children are growing up in a very sexualised world.”
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Wandering Views 
This is a picture of a post-Christian, dying civilization. Unless there is a massive Christian revival, the UK will be largely Muslim in a generation. The reason is simple: Most people would prefer to live in a Muslim society with all its faults rather than a degraded, atheist, immoral society as the UK has become and the US is becoming.
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When James Dobson interviewed Ted Bundy, Bundy told him that his path down the road to serial murders began with his obsession with pornography. Bundy began reading the sleazy porno detective novels that emphasized the brutality of women.
Another 500 lb Gorilla in the room that everyone seems to oblivious to is how the so-called “women’s liberation” movement was in reality a men’s liberation. It allowed men to have harems of women without feeling shame. No longer were men expected to be committed to one woman for the rest of their lives, they could use women like dish rags and when they wore out, that man would simply get a new dish rag. This type of behavior has compounded when children are born into this type of lifestyle.
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You are exactly right, Drives. We often talk about how badly Muslims treat women. Imagine what Muslims who read this article are saying about how the West treats its young girls.and women.
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What do you expect from a society that have rejected God?
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Nothing new here.
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Prayers are a start, and all believers need to commit to do their part to make a difference in some way. People can start by noticing what is at the checkout aisle in their local grocery and tell the manager that some of what is there is damaging to their family.
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It would be a good start for minors who have phones to NOT have smart phones. But I cannot imagine having a child in such a setting, no matter what his own limits or his own personal standards. I can’t imagine facing this kind of pressure at my age and my very determined ability to say “no.” Nor would I want to have to avoid the restroom because sexual stuff was happening there. No child should have to face such situations.
One irony? The very schools that are pressuring children to feel free to say “yes” no matter what their parents think are now trying to tell them “But not here, and we mean it.” Double standard anyone?
Expect young people who’ve had to fight through this environment to have no idea how to handle a proper relationship. I’m sure many of these boys don’t actually “want” to do this, but neither do they want to be thought less virile than the other boys. But this is a hugely damaging way to start interpersonal relationships.
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and we won’t even talk about school bus rides.
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My goodness! Humans just discovered sex and lust. What has the human race do for thousands of years? Why didn’t Sarah Palin keep her kids in line? Next thing you know people will pause from boinking each other so they can boink each other with arrows and spears instead of the other things.
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Yeah, Mumsee, what I hear about middle school bus rides makes me very glad for my “sheltered” childhood.
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Um, Random, did you read the article? Do you think that what it is reporting is good, or somehow morally neutral? Surely you think that some things actually are depraved?
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Modesty has no basis for any moral standards. For him, there is no “depravity”. We are all just naked apes.
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As far as I can tell, the emprical world exists. As far as I can tell the regions known as Heaven and Hell do not exist, and the entity described as “God,” is entirely imaginary. At the moment, I am wearing clothing. I am fairly hairy, though compared to gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans, I might be described as “naked.” The more precise term would probably be “primate,” rather than ape. The theory of evolution is less obvious than the law of gravity. Few people argue very strenuously with the law of gravity; lots of people claim that the theory of evolution is not valid. Nevertheless, it is my opinion that humans evolved from ancestors of primates.
My theory of morals derives from my physical evolution and my acculturation. As far as I can tell, 95% of people are not sociopaths/psychopaths, people who are not impeded from breaking rules most of us human beings support and practice: Don’t murder, don’t torture, don’t rape, don’t steal, do help others in pain and need. I follow those rules because of my acculturation and my evolution and because I am not deluded by clever sociopaths such as Hitler and Stalin. Cheryl and Rickyweaver, I guess, follow those rules for the same reasons, though I presume they say they follow those rules because of an entity called God/Jesus/Holy Ghost, whose triune nature may be a throwback to earlier imaginary entities in polytheistic religions such as Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (which might actually have been monotheistic and the origination of the imaginary creature known as the “devil”).
We are probably on same ground on morality as far as general rules (if not assumptions). However, it is very sad that your obsession with literalism leads you astray in regard to homosexuality. Do try to overcome this pointless prejudice. Society is leaving you behind; your flavor of Christianity will become less and less relevant. I care because . . . ? Oh, yes, because I will die, quite possibly sooner than later, and you will be sad thinking of me as in Hell, or in the cold, or even just not existing at all, though there’s hardly any fun to be had in Heaven gloating about a spark that went out.
You are addicted to “converting” (whatever you call it) as much as any addict is compelled to their “fix.” If I converted, your itch for a “fix” would be satisfied for about five minutes.
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Our job is to be faithful witnesses. The others on this site do a better job than I do. It is The Holy Spirit who works to convert a person. However, there are many good Christians on this site who pray for you and are happy to see you back.
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