Pornography in the United States > Rexroad.com

At church on Sunday the sermon topic was pornography. I understand it is a problem and I understand that it can be serious.....but in the end I just don't understand pornography.

The statistics quoted were items that I had heard before but I viewed them a little sceptically. I knew the industry was large but I didn't realize how large. This is really big business.

Here is the one that got me --

At 12 billion a year, the revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. Worldwide porn sales are reported to be 57 billion. To put this in perspective, Microsoft, who sells the operating system used on most of the computers in the world (in addition to other software) reported sales of 36.8 billion in 2004.

Wow. Bigger than Microsoft! You have got to be kidding me. I have seen pornography. I know what it is..I think. I just don't understand the attraction.

I look at ESPN's website every day. Most days several times. If USC lands a top level recruit I get an e-mail update right away. I actually pay for that.

News junkie....that is me. Pornography? Not interested.

Some quick research this morning on line tells me that this really is a much bigger deal than I ever could have imagined.

I live a very sheltered life in my world of news, sports, blogs, politics, changing diapers, country music, and princess madness. The wildest thing I read every day is a couple blogs from Davis.

Here is how I think this matters to society. This has got to have a big impact on the way people view women and children. Lots of people talk about rights for women and violence against women. I have a hard time believing that the views of women are going to change dramatically when more money is spent on porn than the amount of money on the operating system running the computer you're using to read this.

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