Porn Not a Problem?

The Evangelical Outpost blog has a regular series called "Family Facts." This one from a Swedish study contains a surprising stat:

Seventy-one percent of adolescents surveyed believed pornography consumption influenced others' behavior, and 29 percent believed it affected their own behavior.

So 42 percent of teens in the study are convinced they have an ability others do not have -- to "consume" porn with zero impact on how they live. How revealing! And it's not just Swedes or teens who don't seem to notice the 2x4 stuck in their eye sockets. Nearly all of us have built sinful and/or dangerous habits on the idea that "I can manage this, even though most people have a problem with it." Our enemy deceives us with lies our flesh really wants to believe.

God calls Jesus-followers to be ruthlessly honest and brutal with ourselves, especially in this area: "But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people." (Ephesians 5:3)