On the back cover of John Harmer’s new book, “The Sex Industrial Complex,”  David Cloward an inmate at the Utah State Prison says, “Every day of my life as a prison inmate I think of the step by step process by which the Sex Industrial Complex made me an addict to pornography.  If this book had been in my family’s home when I was a youth I would not be in prison today.  If you care about the future of your children and grandchildren then you need to understand the message of this book.”  This extraordinary young man was senior class president in his high school, a sterling scholar, and a returned missionary.

 

Sexual addiction can happen to anyone and we must understand how it happens and what we can do to help prevent it or get treatment for those who have already fallen prey to this addiction.  We must also understand how pervasive this problem is in our society.  We do not realize how common a problem it is because people do not talk about this problem when it exists in their families.

 

Here are a few statistics involving only one source of pornography, the internet:

 

Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography

Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography

Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States

17% of women are struggling with pornography addiction

80% of 15-17 year olds are having multiple hard-core pornography exposures

90% of 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online (most while doing homework)

 

(These statistics were taken from www.toptenreviews.com/pornography)

 

Realize that back in 1964 there were only three sources of pornography.  Today there are eleven sources of pornography with only one of them being the internet.  These eleven sources of pornography form the “Sex Industrial Complex” which seeks to increase the number of sexual addicts daily. These sexual addicts help to make the pornography business the most profitable business in America in terms of dollars returned for dollars invested.

 

Some of the other sources of pornography include the music industry, slick magazine industry, video or DVD industry, video game industry, motion picture industry, cell phone industry, hotel chains, American Library Association, cable television industry, and the entertainment industry.

 

John Harmer has many decades of experience in fighting pornography.  His first experience litigating was in 1964 in California when he was asked by the office of the District Attorney to help in the prosecution of a distributor of pornography.  That was the first time he had seen pornography.  At that time, the pornography he was prosecuting would have registered in the eighty fifth percentile in terms of its severity of the most graphic that was being produced.   Now, this level of pornography may be purchased at any airport news stand and is considered only in the fifth to tenth percentile of grossness being produced today.  So from then until now Mr. Harmer has been involved as an attorney, as an elected public official or as a leader of an organized program striving to oppose pornography.  This new book is a summation of what Mr. Harmer has seen happen over those past forty three years.  His hope is that this new information will arouse ALL parents to take action.  Mothers and fathers need to be actively involved in the effort to educate and to eliminate the production and distribution of pornography.

 

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John L. Harmer