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By InFocus News Staff
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* The average age of first time contact of pornography among sex addicts is 11.
* At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago. * There are 4.2 million pornographic Web sites. This represents 12 percent of all Web sites in the world. * Every day, one out of four searches online are for pornographic material. * Pornographers disguise their sites (i.e. "stealth" sites) with common brand names, including Disney, Barbie, ESPN, etc., to entrap children. * Pornography is a $12-$13 billion-a-year industry-more than the combined annual revenues of the Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas corporations. * Research gathered over the past few decades demonstrates that pornography contributes to sexual assault, including rape and the molestation of children. * A primary pornography consumer group is boys between ages 12 - 17. |
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By ABDUSSALAM MOHAMED, Senior Staff Writer
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On a quiet evening in early 1999, Adam Abdullah* sat down at his computer and proceeded to check his e-mail.
Abdullah was used to seeing spam in his inbox, but on that particular night, he became curious enough to open one that had a salacious and provocative title.
The e-mail link led him to a porn site. He spent only a few minutes viewing sexual content, but it did not take him long to realize what he was doing was morally wrong. |
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By ZEYAD MAASARANI, Staff Writer
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IRVINE, Calif. — In what some have termed the worst natural disaster in the country since Hurricane Katrina, the California wildfires ravaged the Southland last month, destroying homes, claiming lives, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate, prompting road blockages and causing schools to cancel classes.
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By GHALIA MOHDER, Staff Writer
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LOS ANGELES — In another striking defeat for the government’s prosecution of Muslim charities, the jury in the Holy Land Foundation trial returned without a single guilty verdict for five defendants accused of indirectly aiding Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The high-profile politically charged case ended in a mistrial on Oct. 22, when two jurors recanted their "not guilty" votes on some of the charges, raising suspicion of illegal jury tampering.
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