How to Fight Against Porn | The Writings | Proverbs 7

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

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Whether you have an addiction to it or not, pornography has taken our culture captive. So how do we fight against the temptation of lust? What's the first step toward breaking our addictions? In today's episode, Patrick shares how Proverbs 7 warns us against the path of lust that only leads to death. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Proverbs 7

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:07.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.6	I'm Patrick Miller. A few weeks ago the adult content website Only Fans
0:17.2	revealed some shocking financial figures. During the 2023 fiscal year their
0:22.3	revenue increased by an astounding 20% that's up to 1.3 billion dollars.
0:29.1	Their profits also grew by 20% up to a half billion dollars.
0:33.4	And the number of only fans creators leaped up
0:36.4	29% to 4.1 million people.
0:39.4	Users grew by 28% to 305 million.
0:43.0	That's 28 million people shy of the population
0:46.3	of the United States.
0:48.5	Now, Only Fans makes money by hosting pornographic user-generated content.
0:53.6	Users pay and content creators take home 80% of whatever they make.
0:57.6	The only fan site takes home about 20%.
1:00.5	And that means that in the last year, users spent 6.6 billion dollars on only fans.
1:05.8	That's made the website's creator a very, very wealthy man.
1:09.5	And here's what all of this means.
1:11.3	Only fans is the biggest and most profitable pornography operation in the world.
1:17.1	And it only exists because there are people who want to create and consume sexual content.
1:22.1	It's been said that prostitution is the oldest business under the sun,
1:25.0	and that's probably not far from true.
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