St. Paul's Newman Center - NDSU at 1141 North University Drive, Fargo, ND 58102 US - Find A Way Out
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As Pastor of the Newman Center since 2004, I can honestly say that one of the biggest battlegrounds for the hearts of our young people is pornography. Our young people today have grown up with the internet and it has contributed to this serious epidemic we like to call "pornography addiction." There are millions of pornographic sites available to them within seconds by just a click of a button. It has been through our experience that we have come to realize that the majority of people started looking at hard core pornography at a very young age. Some of our young people do not even know that viewing pornography is immoral. The college experience is the time in your life to get serious about beginning the process of eliminating pornography from your life. If you've been looking at pornography a lot (once a week or more) chances are you'll need some help. We can help in the following ways:
- Free "Breaking Free" booklets in the back of the Church - gives you ideas on how to stop
- Our KC Millennium Men Project which includes:
- 100% confidentiality - no one is going to say anything
- One-on-One meetings with a KC Millennium Man - here you're talking to somebody that's been there and is now seeking to help others
- Examining the root causes and how they have contributed to where you are today,
- Accountability friend and support in times of temptation, and
- Exploring different ways you can modify your behavior.
HOW CAN I GET HELP?
Getting help is simple and easy! Just send an email to millennium.men@gmail.com simply stating your interest in finding out more about the Millennium Men Project. You will then be contacted via email by one of the KC Millennium Men to set up a meeting that will work for your schedule. Additional on-line resource: www.chastity.com WHAT'S THE HARM?
Church Teaching is opposed to Pornography because its approach towards human sexuality is based soley on pleasure. Pleasure is not the purpose of sex just like pleasure is not the purpose of sleeping or eating. Pleasure is the motive or consequence of sex. The Catholic Church's teaching on human sexuality is based on Natural Law: if you want things to prosper you have to act in accord with nature. Why do we have sex? What is its purpose in the context of Marital love? To bring husband and wife closer together (unitive) and to bring babies into the world (procreative); therefore, the purpose is babies and bonding. Additionally viewing pornography is a violation of standard Catholic mores because one is taking advantage of the degraded morality of another person.The Catechism of the Catholic Church says the following about pornography: "2354 Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials." Break the Porn Attraction Video Click Here
Did you know……..
- ¼ females will be sexually molested in her lifetime as a result of pornography.
- 1 out of 3 girls & 1 out of six boys will be sexually assaulted as children by someone they know as a result of pornography.
- 4,000 children are murdered per year do to sex crimes and pornography.
- 11,000% increase in child rape since the introduction of pornography.
- Pornography is an addiction triggered by the hormone ACTH, which is proven to be more powerful to break than cocaine!
- The first decade after pornography was introduced (’60-’69), rape by males below the age of 18 years of age rose by 86%.
- 90% of juvenile sex offenders said, pornography was their primary motive.
- In a survey done at random of 600 students below the age of 18, 91% of girls & 99% of boys had said they had looked at a pornographic magazine at least once.
- 80% of boys and 40% of girls, below the age of 18, said they desired to try ‘stuff’ seen in a pornographic magazine.
- 31% of boys and 18 % of girls, below the age of 18, admitted doing what they had seen in a pornographic magazine a few days after viewing it.
- Before 1950, 1% of men reported impotence; 20 years after the introduction of pornography, 40% of men reported impotence.
- Pornography uses cartoons to entice children and exploit the children. 22% of the cartoons used in pornographic magazines use children in the cartoons.
- An FBI study found that pornography was the # 1 common interest among all serial killers.
- Jeffrey Dahmer (who killed 17 boys), Gary Bishop (who killed 5 boys), and Ted Bundy click here to watch his last interview (who killed 28 people) all stated that “soft-porn” was the leading factor that triggered their desire to violate the flesh!
Source: Soft Porn plays Hard Ball