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Grammy-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin had a secret: since he was 8 years old, he revealed on the November 30,2005, episode of The Oprah Winfrty Show, he'd been addicted to pornography.
Nothing could drag him away from his sexually explicit videos. Even after he married a woman he loved, he continued to watch the videos secretly.
In an attempt to break the habit, he drove to a dumpster in the middle of the night and threw away his porn collection-but later that night he got back in the car, drove back to the dumpster, and gathered it all back up.
Digging through the trash in the middle of the night-that was the turning point for Franklin. It pushed him to share his struggle with his wife, and together they have worked through his addiction. Now, he says, he's been "clean" for several years.
But for millions of people across the country, the porn addiction is an ugly reality that they just can't escape. According to Family Safe Media, pornography is a $5 7 billion worldwide industry. Twelve percent of all Internet pages are pornographic.
Before the Internet became so prevalent, there were plenty of opportunities for people to view pornographic images or read pornographic material-videos,...