World News and Trends: The curse of Internet pornography
The Daily Mail reported that "record numbers of people [in Britain] are downloading pornography from the Internet" (May 29).
The Daily Mail reported that "record numbers of people [in Britain] are downloading pornography from the Internet" (May 29). FT Magazine, from the London Financial Times, stated that "in the US alone 70 per cent of young men log on in search of porn every month" (April 1-2).
The artificial nature of Internet porn threatens the ability of men and women to sustain normal intimate relationships. For example, the average wife is forced to compete with picture-perfect models and porn stars online.
It's not surprising that "more than nine million men—almost 40 percent of the adult male population—logged on to sex websites last year, more than four times as many as the estimated two million in 2,000" (Daily Mail). What is somewhat surprising is "the number of women downloading Internet porn soared 30 percent to 1.4 million" (ibid.).
As FT magazine observed, "When pornography met the Internet the result was as instantly addictive as crack cocaine." Carol Sarler of the Daily Mail rightly called the practice a "dismally seedy epidemic."
Misuse of sex is gradually eating away at the moral roots of our Western societies. If you would like to read something that helps counteract this devastating trend, please request or download our free booklet Marriage and the Family: The Missing Dimension. (Sources: Daily Mail, FT Magazine [both London].)
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
