The Internet can just as easily immobilize the user, entangling him or her in a web. Yes, but with all its conveniences, it has its downside. Like a malfunctioning toilet, the Internet can deliver sewage directly into your home and office. An estimated 20,000 pornographic Web sites exist that are visited by as many as 20 million adults each month. Someone who would never enter an adult bookstore for fear of being seen will let the adult bookstore enter their home, office, or study through the Web.
Statistics show that more and more pastors are struggling with Internet pornography.
Focus on the Family's Pastoral Care line reported that 11 percent of its calls in August 1999 were about pastors and on-line porn. Clay Crosse, a Christian musician, has spoken publicly about his struggle with and freedom from pornography. His courageous candor has been a wake-up call to many Christians around the country. As director of an outreach ministry to the homosexual, I am frequently contacted by gay men who quickly confess their struggle with Internet porn. But Web porn is not peculiar to gay men.