The Pornography Crisis: A Time for Candor
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
Christian Post Guest Columnist
Wed, Nov. 01 2006

Pornography, once peddled only in darkened back alleys, is now a great American success story. In the span of a few short years, the scourge of pornography has been transformed from a vice to a commodity – one more line of merchandise on the shelf, and on the screen.

America has become a pornographic society, where shocked expressions long ago gave way to sighs of resignation. Pornographic images fill the movie screens, the magazine racks, the bookstore shelves, and the computer screens of the nation.

According to a report broadcast in November 2003 on CBS's flagship 60 Minutes, Americans spend "somewhere around $10 billion a year" on so-called "adult entertainment" products. As correspondent Steve Kroft reported, "Consumer demand is so strong that is has seduced some of America's biggest brand names, and companies like General Motors, Marriott, and Time Warner are now making millions selling erotica to America." the rest

This article was originally published on Tuesday, December 2, 2003.