BAN RAPE PORN
Good News About Rape Porn
Rejoice reformers! England has just banned Rape Porn. And so can we.
First things first. We must make ourselves aware. American Christians must be warned of the cultural acceptance of Rape Porn, a growing genre of extreme pornography that is legal, free, and abundant in the United States. Typically, Rape Pornography features scenes of adult men engaged in the simulated rape of adult women. The sex is real but the force is dramatized. Anal Rape Porn, Gang Rape Porn, and Gay Rape Porn are common sub-genres.
Here are a few descriptions of the top 5 websites (out of over 5,500,000 results) when “free rape porn” is typed in the google search bar. All “bad English” is in the original descriptions.
“our content is 100% free and updated daily”
“brutal rape sex porn videos”
“they were forced to open her legs, ___-ed in all holes”
“our rape porn tube proves that girls doesn’t make sense to resist and call for help”
And this information is all obtained before entering one website.
Prepare for resistance. Proponents of Rape Porn as a beloved freedom in our country eagerly inform us that reported rape numbers are down in the US since the rise of such extreme pornography. What they fail to acknowledge is that the sexual availability in which women can be abused with impunity is way up. Conditioned young girls are accepting rough and coerced sex acts, female and male prostitutes are purchased and abused and internet sex clubs in which strangers meet for sex are growing in number. In short, potentially violent sex is more available, either free or for sale. So let’s get this straight, reported rape in America may be down, but using and abusing a person sexually is way up. And now, we have an epidemic of viewing rape for enjoyment. Christian, It’s time to talk about Rape Porn.
We have grown accustomed to porn addiction among congregations. We call it “every male’s struggle” as if we are accepting our sex addiction as the cost of being a man in a sexualized world. When is the last time you heard a Christian leader seriously discuss pornography use along with the masturbation addiction that accompanies it? This body and mind experience changes us and forever enslaves us to this exhilaration. Are we now willing to belittle the sin of masturbating to Rape Porn by calling this a “struggle.” If we Christians and the nation as a whole can not muster outrage for watching forced sex for entertainment, we have reached a new barbarism that will surely manifest itself in the sexual appetites of the next generation.
For The Parents
David Cameron, father of four, and former Prime Minister of the UK, recognized that extreme pornography was “corroding childhood” and began a campaign that led to Britain’s banning of Rape Porn and enforcing of age verification systems to prevent children from accessing any adult material. This is good news for your child. I believe we can now gather enough angry mothers and fathers in this country to demand that our leaders follow Britain’s lead.
We must understand that standard porn in our country has become extreme porn, the majority featuring rape, coercion, and anal sex. Soft porn is not the norm. And the sexual acts within extreme porn are being normalized.
Charles White for metro.co.uk reported, “Teenagers are increasingly being pressured into anal sex – sometimes ‘coercive’ – according to disturbing research published in the British Medical Journal.” He also stated, “Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, found heterosexual men were increasingly watching anal porn online.” He also stated that the top searches on PornHub feature anal intercourse. The researchers also found that young men and young women were using the terminology that anal sex happened “accidentally” because of a “slip”. Obviously, as parents we understand that anal sex is never an accidental occurrence. The lines of consent are becoming blurred in the minds of our teens. The young women in this study were found to have accepted the pain of the experience as “normal”. Find the published study in the British Medical Journal here http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/8/e004996
Parents, coerced anal sex has been normalized. Just last month, Teen Vogue, found in your grocery store aisle, featured an article entitled “Anal Sex, The Right Way”. These are not your grandmother’s sexual expectations. This is the product of extreme porn found on your teen’s phone, available legal, free, and all of the time.
I am nearly 50 and the only woman that has ever admitted to me that she had anal sex was a friend in college. She experienced anal rape, another sub-genre in the Rape Porn category. But, who would believe her? She had consented to vaginal sex but not anal sex. He simply overpowered her in her most vulnerable state. And how would she ever prove this one in court? Thus another case of unreported rape. This was 30 years ago in a small college town in South Carolina. Do you think this happens in high schools and on college campuses today? You bet it does. Extreme porn is now mainstream and these sex acts are becoming an expectation all over our country. And if Teen Vogue reflects our culture, anal sex has now been normalized. This sexual trend comes from somewhere. Porn has consequences, both personally and culturally.
Susan (not her real name) recently led a Bible study for teenagers in Jefferson, Georgia. She encountered three girls with such violent issues as “enduring rape from their boyfriend, enduring physical abuse from their boyfriend, and having an addiction to sadistic Gay BDSM porn.” This is a snapshot of a suburban teen Bible study, and porn has made its mark.
Our daughters are not the only one’s damaged by Rape Porn. Our young men may find online pornography so stimulating that they stop seeking human sexual relationships. The Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine studied 20,000 men with habitual pornography use and found that by their middle twenties, some of these men exhibited “sexual anorexia.” Sex itself contained no pleasure any longer compared to the compulsory act of masturbation. As one would expect, over time their pornography use became more hardcore in order to obtain the same state of arousal, much like the escalating patterns we see in drug addiction. And that new hardcore porn is dominated by Rape Porn.
Our children will have sexual desires within them or demands placed upon them that have been learned from hardcore pornography, which is now all pornography.
For Our Pastors
When a society declines into the acceptance of rape, the cries of its victims scream loudly before the Lord as seen in Sodom (Genesis 19) and Gibeah home of the Benjamites (Judges 19). Destruction of each society would follow. In both stories, the wicked men of the city attempt to rape the male visitor(s) within their gates. It is interesting to note that Sodom was a Canaanite city and the Canaanite’s own religion had incorporated sexual perversion, in essence this people group were following these practices since their beginning. But, Benjamin is an Israelite tribe, a Covenant people who pledged allegiance to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Their religion forbade sexual perversion in the Mosaic Law. Benjamin’s forefather’s on Mount Sinai, about 400 years before their heinous rape crime, had proclaimed, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.”
These true biblical accounts offer our culture a look into patterns of moral decline. The acceptance of rape takes conditioning. The Sodomites and the Benjamites of Gibeah had descended into their rape cultures, and once their “iniquities had reached their full measure”, God responded with His justice.
I found it interesting that in both stories, the men sought to rape the “holy” men that were under another’s protection. When sexual perversion is condoned by government, perhaps it is the Church (our “holy” people) who are sought after. Internet pornography has defiled us, Priests’ sexual abuse has wounded us, and the political agenda opposing biblical sexuality has nearly silenced us. And right now a toxic mix of violence and sex called Rape Porn is being offered free and legal to every boy in Sunday school who has a cell phone…which is EVERY boy.
Does it sound as if their is a conspiracy of the Spiritual kind designed to weaken us? Indeed. It is termed “the way of Balaam” by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter, Chapter 2. When Balaam could not curse Israel to weaken her before her enemies, he conspired for profit to destroy her with sexual perversion. Perversion for profit? Try a 23 billion dollar internet pornography industry with the extreme porn genres including Rape Porn making up a growing piece of that pie. 23 billion. McDonald’s is a 9 billion dollar business. What stopped Balaam’s plot? One brave holy man named Phineas who was not afraid to enforce the Law and was forever praised for it. Our methods of fighting perversion in our flocks will not look like the ways of Phineas. But, surely they should not look like the passivity of Phineas’ contemporaries. Surely, the scourge of Rape Porn warrants a passionate sermon, a Bible study, a retreat with a purpose.
For Our Political Leaders
It was a grim day in January of 2009 when the Supreme Court said it would not consider reviving the Child Online Protection Act that forced porn providers to block children from their content. But, that law was flawed. Archaic and debatable language such as “material harmful to minors” and sexual acts judged to appeal to “prurient interest” were the bedrock of the ban. Leaders, we must get specific. We must name the degrading and violent acts within pornography and we must ban them by law.
The United Kingdom has banned porn involving depictions of rape, or sexual acts that may cause harm or death.
England’s Crown Prosecution Service’s guidelines for the Obscene Publication Act give the graphic details and their new Digital Economy Act declares them banned. Imagine no raping, no strangling, no bleeding, no gagging, no “fisting”, and no crying in pain.
Why must England be this specific? Because the pursuit of violent pornography has become this popular, and its availability to children this prolific. According to Fight the New Drug, an anti-pornography website, “One has to look no further than any major porn site to see how porn has gotten increasingly violent, exploitive and demeaning. These popular porn categories include terms like “facial abuse,” “teen crying,” and “extreme brutal gang bang.”
Going further to protect children, England’s new law forces websites to check if users are over 18.
This age verification using a credit card will limit the amount of pornography available to children. Can any of us deny the necessity of this requirement in keeping our children safe?
Child Pornography is illegal to create and to possess. We have declared this only because “an actual child was being injured.” In order to institute a ban on Rape Porn, we now must acknowledge that viewing rape for entertainment harms us, perverting our sexual desires and reducing women to objects of violence.
From the Journal of Communication’s, A Meta-Analysis of Pornography Consumption and Actual Acts of Sexual Aggression in General Population Studies
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12201/abstract
“[Porn] consumption was indeed associated with sexual aggression in the United States and internationally, among males and females, and in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Associations were stronger for verbal than physical sexual aggression, although both were significant. The general pattern of results suggested that violent content may be an exacerbating factor.”
Leaders, there has never been a better time to ban Rape Porn in the United States. The United Kingdom has gone before us. They have gathered the studies. They have wrestled with the terminology. They have refined enforcement. They have answered the critics. And their children are safer.
We in the United States have allowed the pornographers to determine the laws that govern them. Christian, the time is now to ban Rape Porn.
Please learn more:
What porn does to us…
http://fightthenewdrug.org/how-watching-porn-can-lead-to-violence/
What pornographers say about their industry…
http://theviolenceofpornography.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-commercialized-abuse-and-violence.html
Written by Karen Dial, Author and Advocate for Women and Children. karenrdial@gmail.com
Her novel The Lotus Keeper was written as part of Karen’s ongoing ministry to help rescue the victims of child sex trafficking. She has led corporate intercessory prayer for the International Justice Mission, helped to form the Atlanta Justice Coalition, and served as a Volunteer Guardian ad Litem for abused and neglected kids. She currently teaches literature from a Biblical perspective. Her goal is to ban Rape Porn in the US. #BANRAPEPORN
