When the doctor told Nathan that he had the lungs of a heavy smoker, he protested, "I never smoked a day in my life!" What he failed to take into account was that the casino where he worked allowed public smoking.
He eventually quit his job at the casino.
Unfortunately, it was too little, too late.
Permanent lung scarring and the resulting health complications led to his early death at age 54.
Nathan's example illustrates the risks of ignoring the dangers of secondhand smoke. Never putting a cigarette in your mouth is not enough. While active smoking and passive smoking are not the same things, there is still no safe level of exposure to cigarette smoke.
And the dangers of secondhand smoke exist even if you can't smell it.
In our efforts to live a porn-free life, it is easy to overlook the existence of what we might call secondhand porn: softcore content that has seeped into mainstream entertainment.
In fact, porn-influenced media is all over pop culture.
In 2007, Dr. Norman Doidge wrote in his book The Brain That Changes Itself that pornographic content is "on mainstream media all day long…including television, rock videos, soap operas, advertisements, and so on."
Six years later, the nonprofit agency Beauty Redefined stated, "Scholars and media experts agree that the line between pop culture and pornography has shifted and blurred over the last decade."
Imagine how much more true those statements are today.
We've been so inundated with pornographic content that we've lost our ability to recognize it.
We've gone from shock to acceptance—even to the point of condemning porn with our lips while supporting it through our patronage of movies, TV shows, and other visual stories.
What that means is that we end up sabotaging our efforts against a porn-free world and a porn-free life.
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