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>>Blame the lost war on city and county officials.

Up until 1995, that was true, but porn was so much more limited just by the means of distribution back then that it really wasn’t a big problem.

After the internet revolution, the first order of business was mainstreaming porn and making it easy to get, cheap, and digital.

Once the porn became cheap and easy to find, the next step was in bringing masturbation out of the bathroom. Shows like “Sex in the City” and the “American Pie” movies have made masturbation into an act as socially-acceptable as defecating. It’s not something you normally do in front of people, but its no big deal if they know you’re doing it right now.

The final step was sexualizing everything. Now, the man who suffers from lust problems can get that fire re-ignited constantly. Once the fire is lit, he can gain easy access to porn, and he’s back in the game.

It's "Sex and the City", and you're right. That show did make mainstream what used to be reserved for late night, adults only pay-TV. What they did - as outrageous as it was at the time - is being surpassed by regular FAMILY time shows now. If you go way back before that, I'd say "Hills Street Blues" was the forerunner to the profanity that gets tossed out regularly as well as nudity - MEN and women.

Hollywood types boast that they are "pushing the envelop" but there is no envelop anymore - anything goes just about. Little kids use words today that NOBODY said back when I was in high school even. All these things work together to coarsen our culture and the result is evident all around us. The "sexual revolution" that was imagined would bring in free love and peace in the world has resulted in rampant divorce, rapes, domestic violence, abortions, single mothers, kids with absent fathers, crime, poverty, lessening of respect for women and all life in general. It was Satan's lie and the godless drank it up.

Will there come a time when morality, order, respect, wholesomeness, goodness, gentleness and genuine love will once again be the norm? Yes, but only when Jesus Christ returns. Until then, we can strive to bring these attributes into our lives and those whom we know and can influence. I think everyone secretly yearns for the simpler times. Sin has its pleasure for a season but they are fleeting and its fruit is ruin, destruction and everlasting condemnation. Many, sadly, will only realize that when it is too late.

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you. (Isaiah 47:10-11)