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There are things parents can do to protect their children. You can make use of filters to block certain Internet sites (Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)), and use the v-chip, which can block certain television channels.

To purchase Ron Luce’s book, "The Battle Cry for a Generation,” please visit the Battle Cry Web site.

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Fatal Vision: Teens Lured by Pornography

By Wendy Griffith
CBN News Sr. Reporter

CBN.com – (CBN News) - Kids today are hit from everywhere with salacious junk -- from video games, to MTV to the Internet. Teens cannot seem to escape trashy pictures, even hard-core pornography. But do today's teens feel as threatened by this sexually-charged world as some of the older generation do? Some young people say sex, even porn, is just part of the culture now.

Teenager Adrien said, “I feel sort of desensitized to it, ‘cause I grew up with it and it's everywhere. And I guess I feel like it doesn't affect me, but I'm sure it does."

Bobby, a 20-year-old, remarked, "Used to, back in the day, you'd look at a porn star and you'd be like – ugh! But now, it's like, Wow, she's a porn star. I want to meet her."

Eleven-year-old Hunter commented, "There could be young kids, younger than I am, and they could see this stuff and start thinking it's ok and everything."

One study found that 70 percent of the nation's 15-to-17-year-olds have looked at pornography online.

But for those teens who think viewing porn is not that bad, meet Charlie. He spent 12 years in prison for sexual assault.

Charlie says it all began as a teen-ager, when he became hooked on porn.

“It began with a person on my paper route showing me pornographic material," he asserted.

Charlie said he was not hooked right away, “but my curiosity, being a teen-ager, brought me back to see more. And the more you see it, the more addicted you become. It doesn't take long."

Asked how it has affected his life, he replied, "Well, it nearly destroyed it."

Charlie says the problem with porn is that, after a while, the pictures do not satisfy any more. Eventually, you need to act on what you are seeing.

Charlie said, "Well, pornography is very subtle. You don't think it's going to hurt you, but the more you view it, the more ingrained the images become. So, on a prolonged basis of viewing such things, it will affect you. And it's going to reach a point to where pictures will no longer stimulate you -- then, what you do?”

Charlie, who gave his life to Jesus Christ in prison, and now speaks out against porn, and says it is not a coincidence that 85 percent of all sex offenders behind bars used pornography.

But despite this alarming statistic, the media keeps pushing porn in our children's faces, so says Ron Luce of Teen Mania Ministries. In his new book, "The Battle Cry for a Generation,” Luce says that Satan is using porn in an all-out war to steal the souls of our young people.

Luce said, "Eighty percent of them now, who are regularly on line, have had multiple exposures to hardcore pornography."

He warns that Christian kids are just as exposed, and just as vulnerable to porn's affects as non-believing kids. And without certain moral guidelines, he says, even Christian kids are basically sitting ducks for the enemy.

Luce said, “So when they get an unsolicited sexual innuendo in their email (one out of five kids do that are on-line regularly) there's nothing that says, ‘Ooh, I shouldn't do that, that's wrong,’ because there's no right or wrong. So they will click that, and the next thing, and pretty soon, that world has totally infected their minds, and pillaged them from any kind of moral foundation, right or wrong."

There are things parents can do to protect their children. You can make use of filters to block certain Internet sites (Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP)), and use the v-chip, which can block certain television channels.

The ASACP site also contains helpful articles, such as Internet safety tips for kids, on its side bar list. But Luce says there is no substitute for just knowing your kids’ business.

To purchase Ron Luce’s book, "The Battle Cry for a Generation,” please visit the Battle Cry Web site.

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