From the Desk of Laura Bunker:
One of the greatest threats to families across the world is pornography. It is addictive as crack cocaine, and as attested in today’s UFI articles by young adult college students, is devastating to marriages and families.
At United Families International, we welcome the news that the Hilton Worldwide hotel chain will be removing porn from their on-demand options. The Hilton statement said in part, “we have listened carefully to our customers and have determined that adult video-on-demand entertainment is not in keeping with our company’s vision and goals moving forward.”
We applaud the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), whose efforts helped the Hilton chain to bring about this change, and invite you to attend their 2nd Annual “Coalition To End Sexual Exploitation 2015 Summit” on September 10–12, 2015 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld.
We also encourage you read the articles below: two thoughtful perspectives from young adult college students on the tragic personal and global impact of porn.
Faithfully for Families,
Laura Bunker
United Families International, President
Pornography: Endangering Matrimony
By Tashara Carnahan
I couldn’t breathe. My world started to spin around me, frantically, closing me in at all sides. No, I thought, this can’t be happening. This can’t be real. My eyes burned from holding back the salty tears that threatened to fall at any second. How did I not know? How could I have been so blind? How could he do this to me? To our marriage? To our family? Fear and anger swelled within my being. I’ve been betrayed, I thought, bitterly, he cheated on me. He cheated on me without even leaving the house.
The facade had gone on long enough. I was tired of pretending that everything was fine, when it obviously was not. I was tired of feeling broken, not good enough, and unappealing. I was going to confront my husband about his addiction to pornography, and we were going to make things right. We were going to salvage our marriage.
My experience of having a husband with a pornography addiction isn’t uncommon. As much as I would love to say that it is, in reality, it’s getting more and more common everyday.
Pornography: Do You Still Have a Choice?
By Rachel Soderquist
Jim had been married for five years. He and his wife had two little girls. They were happy. In the last year, their relationship had spun way off course. It started quietly, almost unknowingly. Jim spent more time at work; he was a little bit more tired when he came home at night. He started interacting less with the girls. Little acts of kindness and reaching out began to dwindle and affection stopped all together. He was caught by the poison that plagues many of our families and society: pornography, an utter disregard for the sacred.
At every second, 28,258 people are viewing pornography. That means that if these 28,258 people represented different individuals every second, it would only take 59 hours, a little less than 5 days, before the entire world population had been exposed.
To get more research and data on the harms of pornography, go here.