2. Harmful Sexual Behavior
The second effect of porn on teens in our series is harmful sexual behavior. Our last post described The Escalation Effect.
Studies show that those who view porn often are more likely to act out these sexual behaviors onto others, as viewing porn online or watching explicit videos is not enough to satisfy their sexual desire. Such harmful sexual behavior includes, rape, pedophilia, voyeurism, group sex, and inflicting pain on oneself or others.
Pornography is what led Ted Bundy, an infamous serial killer, and many other criminals to develop harmful behavior that fueled their horrific crimes. Here are some experts taken from Bundy’s last interview with James Dobson before his execution on January 24, 1989 (experts taken from “Life on the Edge” by Dr. James Dobson, see complete article at Pure Intimacy’s website here):
Bundy explains how he developed such harmful sexual behavior,
As a young boy of 12 or 13, I encountered, outside the home, in the local grocery and drug stores, softcore pornography. Young boys explore the sideways and byways of their neighborhoods, and in our neighborhood, people would dump the garbage. From time to time, we would come across books of a harder nature – more graphic. This also included detective magazines, etc., and I want to emphasize this. The most damaging kind of pornography – and I’m talking from hard, real, personal experience – is that that involves violence and sexual violence. The wedding of those two forces – as I know only too well – brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe.
… this kind of literature contributed and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior.
Bundy continued to explain that he was a normal guy and even had a healthy upbringing, however, pornography and its ease of access quickly snuck into his life.
I was a normal person. I had good friends. I led a normal life, except for this one, small but very potent and destructive segment that I kept very secret and close to myself.
Once you become addicted to it, and I look at this as a kind of addiction, you look for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Like an addiction, you keep craving something which is harder and gives you a greater sense of excitement, until you reach the point where the pornography only goes so far – that jumping off point where you begin to think maybe actually doing it will give you that which is just beyond reading about it and looking at it.
(See our post on The Escalation Effect)
I wasn’t some guy hanging out in bars, or a bum. I wasn’t a pervert in the sense that people look at somebody and say, “I know there’s something wrong with him.” I was a normal person. I had good friends. I led a normal life, except for this one, small but very potent and destructive segment that I kept very secret and close to myself. Those of us who have been so influenced by violence in the media, particularly pornographic violence, are not some kind of inherent monsters. We are your sons and husbands. We grew up in regular families. Pornography can reach in and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago. As diligent as my parents were, and they were diligent in protecting their children, and as good a Christian home as we had, there is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates….
I’m no social scientist, and I don’t pretend to believe what John Q. Citizen thinks about this, but I’ve lived in prison for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence. Without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography – deeply consumed by the addiction. The F.B.I.’s own study on serial homicide shows that the most common interest among serial killers is pornographers. It’s true.
For more on this interview click here.
As always, let Professor George know if you have any questions or comments on this post. In the meantime, check back because we will continue this series on The Porn Drug and Professor George will be adding his research on the topics.
Mark
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