Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

The Problem of P*rn

29 Mar 2024

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Single-speaker YouTube talk (Nick Stumbo) warning that widespread availability of pornography—enabled by home Internet in the mid–late 1990s and smartphones around 2010–2011—constitutes a large social experiment. The speaker predicts long-term societal damage from being "flooded by images" and urges churches, communities, and families to develop systems to build resilience to pervasive porn.

Questions this video answers

Mid to late 1990s.

Around 2010–2011.

March 29, 2024.

The game changed in the mid to late 90s when home Internet became the norm, and then again when the smartphone became the norm in 2010, 2011. Once people had to go and do publicly, now was at their fingertips in the privacy of any place they were. We're living in the world's greatest social experiment that we've ever seen. And I think we're going to look back and realize that we got flooded by images and a culture of pornography that we were not ready to handle. And we're going to see long term the damaging effects on our society. Now, certainly, sexual desire and lust and acting out is not new, but is at a level of intensity and availability that no one has seen before. And so we're needing to develop new systems of how do we respond as churches and communities and families, so that we can help people learn to be resilient to the porn that is now all around them.