CHILDREN: SEXUAL COMMODITIES

Sarah Williams, lecturer at Regent College in Vancouver, reminded us several years ago that sexual liberation has normalized every sexual activity except rape and pedophilia. I have since commented that pedophilia will, by stages and with some limitations, also become acceptable.

Sexual permissiveness has spawned a vast increase of pornography, especially on the web and in particular promoting pedophilia and incest. This is driving an explosion of child abuse in real life, as illustrated by the following case of child abuse reported last week in Hamilton Ontario.

A 34-year-old Hamilton man is facing 40 sexual abuse-related charges. A mother’s boyfriend abused the seven-year-old daughter and made her available for abuse on Craigslist. Images of the seven-year-old were also distributed.

Investigators realized they were dealing with a network of people connected in arranging sexual abuse and distributing child pornography. To date, the investigation has executed 14 search warrants and 15 production orders, and has seized more than 100 electronic devices. 

This one example is only the tip of the iceberg. Hamilton police laid no charges for child pornography or child exploitation in 2005. By 2015, those numbers had risen to 42 for child pornography and peaked at 50 in 2014 for child violations.

Unfortunately, Hamilton is typical of what is happening throughout Ontario. Provincial police reported 358 Child pornography incidents in 2005, which rose to 1,292 in 2015. Child violations followed the trend, from 19 in 2005 to 894 in 2015.

We indicated previously, sexual pleasure is now a greater good than the welfare of the children produced by it, leading to the degrading of children as a commodity. This is the basis of abortion on demand, children without a parental legacy, but also the proliferation of children as sexual objects.

The normalization of sexual activities that were previously stigmatized gives tacit permission to practice other, still forbidden, sexual desires—and a greater cry for their recognition. Wide-open sexual permissiveness precludes ending the downward spiral from traditional marriage at some arbitrary point.

Studies consistently show low conflict families of two parents of opposite sex produce the mostly stable and secure children. We should expect this, as the
traditional family is the created means of human reproduction. Those children will be the future bedrock of a stable society. 

However, maintaining the traditional family concept in the current environment is not easy. We need to persevere in the Truth, to work at ensuring our children have the best upbringing we can give them, and stand up to the pressures currently bent on destroying the natural family order.

PS: Ann and Bryan are Showing the Truth Project in their home on Friday evenings. You are invited, call 403-328-3745.