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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the daily article for Wednesday,

March 24th, 2021. The title is, facts you didn't know about the movie Pretty Woman, proof that

the Bible is right about sexual morality and practical steps into personal purity. The movie

Pretty Woman came out 31 years ago yesterday.

The film's subtitle describes the plot, quote,

She Walked Off the Street Into His Life and Stole His Heart.

People magazine reports some facts you may not have known about the popular film.

Bert Reynolds was initially offered the lead role that Richard Gear made famous.

The director's son plays a drug-dealing skateboarder in the movie,

and the film was originally titled 3,000,

the price of one night with Vivian, the prostitute, played by Julia Roberts.

Here are some facts the article leaves out.

The homicide rate among active female prostitutes is 17 times higher than that of the age-matched general female population.

The average prostitute is physically attacked once a month, and one study found that 89% of women in prostitution want to escape but are trapped.

The glorification of prostitutes in popular media is just one example of our broken sexual ethic. Yesterday, we discussed our culture's clear

rejection of biblical morality with regard to sex outside of marriage. I stated my intention then

to look today at, quote, the practical consequences of the sexual revolution,

broken lives, broken homes, and broken souls.

We're going to do that today with the help of the finest article on the subject I have found,

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