"A research study estimates that the average person views approximately 9,230 sex acts, or implied sex acts, a year on television. Of that sexual activity, 81 percent is outside the commitment of marriage. This means that if the average young person watching ten years of television from age eight to eighteen, watched 93,000 scenes of suggested sexual intercourse, 72,900 of those scenes would have been pre- or extramarital."
The statistics presented are drawn from Why Wait? by Josh McDowell.
The statistics are revolting. They are also alarming. I've grown up in a godly home where we were carefully monitored on what we watched and didn't watch. My parents were very strict on their selections of what we watched. Even so some scenes inevitably filtered in through the cracks. Not the graphic scenes of course, rather those scenes which were of an "implied" nature. Over time the shock of affairs in marriage and even of sex out of marriage wore off. It just happens. It's natural. At least that's what it seemed like. All the popular shows enforce casual sex or sex that is not held up to proper Christian standards. It's not really their fault. They enjoy it and don't know any better. Can't quite judge non-Christians by Christian standards. That just doesn't seem fair. Yet I do have to judge myself. The Bible encourages me to judge or "examine" myself. And so now I ask myself what am I doing condoning these acts or scenes? Certainly the Scriptures also contain some pretty freakish things (God urges a prophet to marry a prostitute!), but nevertheless that is not condoned but rather condemned. It is presented as something to be corrected in the Scriptures, whereas here, in our society, it is presented as common and completely alright.
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