A new study reveals that Americans spend more money on subscriptions to porn platforms than

chat GPT and the New York Times combined.

What does this tell us?

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I'm your host, Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically

weekly cultural update brought to by Talp School of Theology, Biola University. Scott, we've got a range

of different stories today, and I'm really interested in jumping into this first one, because we're, of

course, a week out from Valentine's Day.

Very appropriate. Very appropriate. And you sent this over to me, and it's written by Arthur

Brooks, who's kind of become an expert on the topic of happiness. And he says, why are young people

choosing only fans, which is a porn subscription from individuals over love. He says the answer he believes

is fear. So a few things in this article that I said earlier, I mean, this kind of blows me away

that we now spend as Americans more on subscription-based pornography platform only fans, not just all platforms, but that platform

alone, the New York Times and chat GPT combined.

He points out that people are spending more time alone and depressed and are increasingly

addicted to porn.

He says that, you know, this journalist he interviews says, Only Fan, quote,

benefits from the only trend more impactful than AI right now. Loneliness. So loneliness,

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