As per Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph, "The pornography industry, according to conservative estimates, brings in $57 billion per year, of which the United States is responsible for $12 billion....Incidents of child sexual exploitation have risen from 4,573 in 1998 to 112,083 in 2004" <www.diocese-kcsj.org/Bishop-Finn/pastoral-07.htm>.
As per Bishop Paul Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington, "The industry preys on the most vulnerable: the poor, the abused and marginalized, and even children....Those who seek out and use pornographic images are active participants in the victimization of others....And the viewers themselves are degraded....[As] what is now offered on cable and even broadcast television increasingly approaches pornographic content, citizens must demand that public officials whose service is to regulate such media take immediate and effective action" <www.arlingtondiocese.org/offices/communications/boughtprice.html>.
A very practical first step in the battle against pornography is to demand removal of pornographic literature from 7-11 Stores <http://www.pornfree711.com/>.
