Private Depravity

Here's something I saw linked by Tim Challies yesterday. It's about pornography use among teenagers and how ignorant parents often are about it. Here are some lines that stood out to me:

"32% of boys and 18% of girls have seen bestiality online. 39% of boys and 23% of girls have seen sexual bondage online. 83% of boys and 57% of girls have seen group sex online."

I realize that watching bestiality videos doesn't prove that a person is attracted to sex with animals, but watching such videos is something that should be avoided, for many reasons, even if sexual attraction to animals isn't involved. For one thing, watching such videos lowers people's opposition to bestiality, even if they don't practice it or desire to practice it themselves. Popularizing bestiality videos is part of the pathway to popularizing mainstream acceptance of bestiality. The same mindset that leads people to become increasingly accepting of fornication, pornography, homosexuality, and other sexual perversions can lead them in a lot of other directions as well.

How long will it be before political leaders and other figures in our culture start having sex scandals involving animals rather than humans? How much longer, after that, will it take for the people who criticize them to be accused of being judgmental, mean-spirited, prudes, etc.? And take a guess at which political party will lead the way.

In a society in which people openly build up a national debt of almost twenty trillion dollars, celebrate same-sex marriage, have tens of millions of abortions, engage in sexual practices leading to more than one hundred million infections of sexually transmitted diseases, etc., imagine how much worse they are in the more private parts of their lives. And not all of that will remain private. It will get pushed out into the larger society more and more.