The Porn Circuit | Covenant Eyes Internet Accountability and Filtering

CHapter 3: Stuck in a rut
The broadband stream of pornography
Our modern culture delivers a constant flood of sexualized media and pornography that wears
at the banks of the mind. In decades past, pornography was limited in availability, especially
to minors, but the advent of the Internet ensures hardcore and fetish pornography is always
available to an ever-younger audience.
The late psychologist Al Cooper said this modern allure of pornography was driven by a
Triple-A Engine. Porn is available, affordable, and anonymous.
Available. There are millions of pages of Internet pornography, a continued growth of
Internet enabled devices, and open WIFI is widely available.
Affordable. 90% of people only view free porn online. 2
Anonymous. Pornography is used secretly on a variety of Internet-enabled devices.
Similar to how the overflow stream broke the dam of our family pond and carved out the
hillside, continued use of pornography carves neural pathways in the brain, according to Dr.
Struthers. 3 Recognize the damage early and deep neural pathways can be prevented, but if the
stream of pornography continues, a neural pathway will develop and it will take significant
work and determination to alter.
Often these neural pathways for pornography become engrained in the formative years of
adolescence, and this is especially true in today’s Internet culture. By age 18, 90% of boys and
60% of girls are exposed to Internet pornography. 4
Porn addiction starts at a young age 5
60% 90%
By age 18, 90% of boys and 60% of girls
are exposed to Internet pornography.
55% 69%
55% of girls and 69% of boys have seen
porn showing same-sex intercourse.
57% 83%
57% of girls and 83% of boys have seen
group sex on the Internet.
23% 39%
23% of girls and 39% of boys have seen
online sex acts involving bondage.