Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivantis and this is Dialin. I wanted to thank you guys once again

for listening to and sharing the Dialin podcast. It's been so cool to see the show truly grow on a global

scale and I'm thankful for the ways that the Lord has used it and I'm praying that he will

continue to do so. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Carl Truman and ask him about pornography's effect on

our mind, in our culture, and in our churches.

The average age of when a child is first exposed to pornography is 11 years old, and

94% of children will see pornography by the age of 14.

This is a staggering statistic, and with it comes an understanding

that we need to know how to approach this topic biblically

and understand the destruction and devastation

that pornography wields in our culture and in our churches today.

With that in mind, let's dial in.

Dr. Truman, thank you once again for sitting down. You know, I was reading recently

that 11 years old is the age of when students are first exposed to pornography.

That's a hard thing to swallow, and of course it's a stat, but there's a reality that we live in a pornographic world.

And what has become normal for many people, even the way they live on their phones, I don't think many people realize even social media opens so many gateway drugs to pornography, but we live in a world that is becoming increasingly

pornographic. How does this shape our culture, what we see today? What are the dangers of it?

How does it change the way we think? What would be your input there?

Well, the depressing answer to that question is we don't yet know. I actually think that we

have little idea of the long-term consequences of what this is going to do. We do know that

it's going to be bad, but we are just at the beginning of this scourge at this particular point in time.

We have yet to see the generation that has been basted in pornography come to adulthood

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