Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

there were over twenty-seven houses of prostitution throughout the city before the famed volcanic eruption covered the city. Inside this house—still intact—were paintings on the wall of various sexual acts that a person could request and pay for. After the group heard a detailed discussion of the idolatrous worship and perverted wickedness of the city, one tourist commented, “I’m not surprised that this city was destroyed.” Throughout history erotic statues, art, and personal contact with female prostitutes have been common in pagan Gentile cultures. Men tend to be sight oriented and can be emotionally and physically stirred by certain pornographic images. As a child aged five to nine growing up in rural southwestern Virginia, the only pornographic magazine was Playboy , and this magazine was kept under the counter in drugstores (there were no convenience stores). While I never saw one at that age, I would occasionally hear old men, in disgust, wondering what society was coming to for allowing a publisher to print and sell nudity in local stores. Eventually, over the past forty years, the pornographic printed images went from under the counter to the counter, to the television cable networks, and now to the easy access of the Internet. P ORNOGRAPHY AT A GE E LEVEN I have only shared this story publicly once, and I believe it would fit the context of this chapter. When I was age eleven and in middle school, my father pastored in Northern Virginia.