Attention Span: A measure of the amount of time someone can stay focused on a particular task, thought, or conversation without being distracted.

Longer attention spans usually make it easier for people to complete tasks and remain organized. A person’s attention span also affects social interactions; some people struggle to remain focused on conversations without becoming distracted or fidgeting.

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Media exploitation and manipulation God calls us to live lives of critical thinking Critical thinking requires us to set aside assumptions and beliefs to think without bias or judgment. Critical thinking involves the ability to know fact from opinion when exploring a topic.

★(1) Porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon, & Twitter combined. (HuffPost) ★(2) 35% of all internet downloads are porn-related. (WebRoot) ★(3) 34% of internet users have been exposed to unwanted porn via ads, pop-ups, etc. (WebRoot) ★(4) Porn increased marital infidelity by 300%. (WebRoot) ★(5) 30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn-related. (HuffPost) ★(6) The most common female role in porn is women in their 20’s portraying teenagers. (Jon Millward. In 2013, Millward conducted the largest personal research study on the Porn Industry in the U.S. He interviewed 10,000 porn stars about various aspects of the business.) ★(7) Child porn is one of the fastest growing online businesses. (IWF) ★(8) 624,000 child porn traders have been discovered online in the U.S. (Innocent Justice) ★(9) Approximately 55% of teen girls living on the streets have engaged in prostitution. (Enough.org) ★(10) Child porn is a $3 billion industry. (TopTenReviews)

After an analysis of 400 million web searches from July 2009 to July 2010, researchers concluded: · 13% of all searches were for erotic content. · The most popular category of sexual searches was “youth.” · 35 of the top searched sexual interests account for 90% of all erotic searches— meaning that people’s search curiosities “are clustered together into a relatively small set of common interests.” · By and large, men prefer images and graphic sex sites; women prefer erotic stories and romance sites.  

18-30-year-olds, 79%; 31-49-year-olds, 67%; 50-68-year-olds, 49% According to a survey conducted by the Barna Group in the U.S. in 2014: · The following percentages of men say they view pornography at least once a month: 18-30-year-olds, 79%; 31-49-year-olds, 67%; 50-68-year-olds, 49% · The following percentages of men say they view pornography at least several times a week: 18-30-year-olds, 63%; 31-49-year-olds, 38%; 50-68-year-olds, 25% · The following percentages of women say they view pornography at least once a month: 18-30-year-olds, 76%; 31-49-year-olds, 16%; 50-68-year-olds, 4% · The following percentages of women say they view pornography at least several times a week: 18-30-year-olds, 21%; 31-49-year-olds, 5%; 50-68-year-olds, 0% · 55% of married men say they watch porn at least once a month, compared to 70% of not married men. · 25% of married women say they watch porn at least once a month, compared to 16% of not married women.  

Barna, the Christian polling organization conducted online surveys in 2015. It included a general U.S. population survey and a separate polling of American Protestant church leaders. It received 2,271 responses. According to Barna: One in five Americans over 13 uses porn weekly or more frequently. Men are twice as likely as women to consider porn good for society (14 percent vs. 7 percent). 17 percent of those who say they never seek out porn come across it at least weekly.

Pornography Addiction Was 'Dirty Little Secret' Terry Crews Repented, Overcame "Some people say, 'Hey, man ... you can't really be addicted to pornography.' But I'm gonna' tell you something:  If day turns into night and you are still watching, you probably have got a problem. And that was me," said Crews. “Every time you look at pornography is a desire for intimacy,” he said. “You are trying to fight your feelings of being alone by filling it with pornography in an attempt to feel that you are with someone and you know someone. But the problem is pornography is an intimacy killer.” "It changes the way you think about people. People become objects. People become body parts; they become things to be used rather than people to be loved."

We chose the sin, yes, but we did not choose it with the consequences. It came with promises of ecstasy and freedom.  It did not come announcing that it would eat away at our self-worth.  It failed to mention that it would destroy our ability to love others.  It did not say that when it was done, it would leave us a shell of a person, barely breathing, and powerless.  It did not warn that it would create a double life riddled with fear, uncertainty, and hopelessness.  It did not let us know that once it had us, it would not let us go. No one chooses that willingly.  The devil is a liar; he is a trickster. He preys on the weak. I was exposed to pornography at the age of 13 and if it had come with a warning label that read: “Danger: Consumption will result in a lowered self-esteem and a lost love for life” I am fairly certain this story would have ended differently. Instead, pornography came wrapped in a shroud of lies about being beautiful, appreciated, accepted, and loved. It did not have a warning label, but it was still poison.

There are no statistics with God. Simply: All, None, and Anyone.