This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

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I had an opportunity to watch an interview with Dr. Patrick Carnes, who is recognized as the foremost authority in this country, in this whole issue of sexual addiction and pornography and pornographic addiction.

Dr. Carn's description of where we are as a culture in this regard is enough to

send shivers in the spine of every parent and every grandparent who's sitting here today.

He called this type of addiction the tsunami that could threaten the human race. And I don't think

this man is given to exaggeration. He said among other things that two-thirds of kids are

watching pornography while they're doing their homework. 34% of them will become addict.

Now we see why he calls it the tsunami that's about to hit our nation.

Among other things, he said, there is no spouse in the whole world

that can live up to the expectations of pornography and

pornographic expressions. Then he added, he said, while nicotine can stay in the brain of a person

when he smoke his or her first cigarette, 30 days linger in the brain. He said, pornography lingers in the brain after just one scene

for months. And imagine the repeated actions. Pornographic addiction moves, he said, in a downward

direction, which leads to addiction and bondage.

He said, it all starts as an impulsive act. Then it goes into a compulsive behavior. And then ultimately, into a full-blown addiction.

40% of the men, listen carefully, mom and dad.

40% of men state that they started looking at pornography at the age of 10.

I must confess to you, and I'm confessing publicly,

that I had my head buried in the sand about this issue for too long,

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