Charlie Sheen’s Life Provides WRAP Week Object Lesson in How Addiction to Pornography Can Harm Marriages, Children and Some Careers

Christian Newswire
November 3, 2011

The goal of the annual WRAP Week is to heighten public awareness of the harms associated with pornography and the need to enforce obscenity laws to curb the proliferation of hardcore adult pornography online and elsewhere.

Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, had these comments:

“If true, Ms. Richardson’s account of her marriage to Charlie Sheen may illustrate several harms commonly associated with addiction to pornography, namely:

• Acting out pornography fueled sexual fantasies with prostitutes

• Progression from viewing hardcore adult pornography to viewing pornography that depicts actual children or performers who look like children

• Children being exposed to a parent’s pornography

• A wrecked marriage

Under normal circumstances, such behavior could also result in loss of a job, but Mr. Sheen is a Hollywood celebrity; and these days outrageous behavior often serves to increase an actor’s popularity and promote a career …”

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