A New Plague

   

         It's just another monday and you're off to work, busy as usual and probably a bit late, except there's a catch.  It's 1346 A.D. and in a week your home town is about to be struck by possibly the largest pandemic in human history, The Black Death.  In a month from now it will invade seven of every ten homes, 50% of everyone you know will be buried and you will scarcely walk to the end of the street in fear of catching the lethal strain.

 I would like to propose and even warn you that as you go about your everyday routines there is another pandemic spreading across our world, invading the homes of the young and old alike.

Pornography.

We are facing an invasion of porn and it's more serious than you think.

 While Black Death affected 30-60% percent of Europe, porn is far more invasive, available at the touch of a button and flooding the media at an astounding rate, porn has crept into nearly every home where the web can be found.

 Most will laugh and trivialize the issue of porn, downplaying it's cost and completely ignoring the dangerous and invasive drug spreading through their lives, but i can tell you firsthand, It's serious.

 No porn has not eradicated 40% of our population but it is working a sickness of It's own kind into our minds and our culture. Don't believe me? Take a look at this article published by Fight The New Drug, an organization dedicated to providing individuals with the opportunity to make and informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on it's harmful affects.

 This is the finely tuned product of a porn saturated society, where violence and abuse fall hand in hand with sex and relationships. This is exactly what organizations like FTND are trying to counter. A society of young men and women believing that this is somehow "natural" or "the way sex should be". It's a drug, like any other, and it harmfully influences society through the mind.

So where is this drug invading and why is it dangerous? Glad you asked.

 Porn invaded our streets on the covers of magazines before it ever hit the web, it has been an industry dedicated to reaching every audience, in every home, everywhere. We know this because where there is internet there is porn.  When 12% of all websites contain porn and roughly 644 million websites are currently active we have up to 60 million porn sites running right now, and growing.

 With households equipped with a computer or laptop and the majority of us packing some type of smartphone it's no wonder the spread is enormous and out of control.

 Bilboards on highways, ads on the web, movie trailers, magazine covers, books, music, radio, chat rooms, sexting, and our own computers. Porn is invasive and dangerous.

 Porn is dangerous because It changes your brain, training your mind to need a stimulation which only escalates and demands more and more.

 Porn is dangerous because It is addictive, building shortcuts in your mind to a chemical that tells you it was good but consumes your appetite for relationships. It's an overload and it's unnatural and unsustainable.

 Lastly porn destroys your relationships, your mind, and consequently (as a combined affect) the society around us.

 So here we are again, it's monday morning, 1346 A.D., do you tell anyone what's coming? Do you warn them what it will do to their families and their lives?

 As a young generation standing on the doorstep of an addicted and abusive culture it is our responsibility and choice to inform everyone of the deadly, destructive, objectifying affects of pornography.  We are capable of fighting this new drug and giving others the opportunity to realize what it is doing to our society.

Don't be mistaken, be a Fighter.