The American Idol: SEX

Ben Williams

Sex has become America’s favorite pastime…

• 90% of children between 8-16 have viewed porn
• Age of 16 has become the average age for “losing virginity”
• Oral Sex has become a normal preliminary sexual act among teenagers.
• Oral Sex has become a casual act between people who are NOT even dating.
• The camera/cell phone generation has increased pornographic outlets.
• It is common for boys between the ages of 13-17 to have a nude photograph of their
• girlfriend sent to their phone (voluntarily)
• 1/3 of all pregnancies are out of wedlock
• Child pornography & molestation are more common now in the U.S. than ever.
• Every second: $3,075.64 is spent on porn / 28,258 viewers
• 40 million Americans are regular visitors to porn sites
• 70% of Men (18-24) visit porn sites in a typical month
• The US spends $2.84 billion on porn / $4.9 Billion is spent worldwide
• 68 million searches for porn daily on search engines.
• 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic
• There are 116,000 searches for child pornography every day
• The average age at which a child first sees porn online is 11.
• 20% of men and 13% of women admit to viewing porn at work
• The most popular day of the week to view porn is Sunday.
• Porn brings in more money than the revenues of CBS, NBC, & ABC combined annually.
• Porn brings in more money than the NFL, MLB, & NBA combined annually.

What is the Church to do?

The church holds the responsibility of teaching and preaching about sex frequently to its members. Pastors everywhere know that the Bible addresses the issue of sex and sexual immorality often, but what so few do is embrace the calling to preach the whole counsel of God to all of their congregation together. This idea that we should not talk about sex in mixed company is an unbiblical concept and has done more damage than any good. Just look back at the statistics. We believe men and women, young and aged, need to be taught about how the opposite sex tends to operate with everyone present and listening. Here’s the fact: if we as the church don’t teach on sex and teach it often, then the world will continue to have the leg-up on educating people about what sex is.

Our young people are learning about sex from tv, movies, music, friends, school, social media – and those outlets are speaking into their lives every single day. Pastors remain silent for the most part, and the ones that are speaking about sex to their people are usually doing so from an unbiblical perspective. The truth is that Satan will certainly use what we are not talking about and exhibit his power by distorting the truth about it to our people.

The church needs to teach, preach and equip its members to develop a healthy, biblical perspective and what sex is and be frequently warned against areas of sexual immorality. The church, in turn, will then equip godly parents to teach their children about sex adequately.

Here is an excellent link on parents talking to their kids about sex.

Other Resource:

God on Sex

by Daniel Akin

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