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The new celibacy? How porn may be destroying the impetus for sex
CNA ^ | Apr 16, 2015 | Mary Rezac

Posted on 04/17/2015 4:53:57 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

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To: MichaelCorleone

But don’t you think that the availability, quantity, choice, and expense of consuming it makes the current era way different from anything of the past? Given a certain level of technology, there just aren’t any comparable limits like there was in the past. Not saying the desire wasn’t there, just the technical limitations tended to act as a governor. Now people can watch on their phones.

Freegards


41 posted on 04/17/2015 6:05:53 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Something that I have said for a while now. Liberal are even taking the fun out of sex.
42 posted on 04/17/2015 6:08:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: windcliff

Marital aids.


43 posted on 04/17/2015 6:09:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I know this isn’t the point the thread — which strikes me as perfectly valid — but when I first heard Mayer sing that song in that creepy, droning whisper I said to the radio, “if someone like you ever got near my daughter, I’d make sure he never did again” — that’s a) how good my instincts as a father are and b) how transparently smarmy he is. Have never like him and he’s overhyped as a guitar player on top of it.


44 posted on 04/17/2015 6:10:57 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: xp38
Porn can get you fired very quickly. The acronym NSFW (not safe for work) is posted as a warning for just that reason.

If a person works at work and watches [legal] porn at home, they are perfectly safe. If a person watches porn at work, they are asking to be fired at least because they don't do what they are supposed to do.

All things considered, even a terabyte of porn at home cannot get you fired. However a "wrong" joke at work can cost you your job. Or a Presidential nomination, as it happened to one Herman Cain.

45 posted on 04/17/2015 6:15:30 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Mrs. Don-o

My impression is that the increase in media and the migration to large cities is causing this.

Back in the olden days, the boy at the farm two miles away that was close to the age of the girl was judged to be a good match for the daughter. He might not have been matinee idol handsome, but he was a good worker from a good family.

My impression now is that young women are all after the same couple of hundred guys. They want the guy in the band or in the movie. They are not going to lower their sights and accept somebody less. They shouldn’t have to.

This allows the guys who look right to the young ladies to then use them. They are the goal and they know it. This then sours the young ladies on all men. They then want wealth. We may have talked a lot about love in the 1960s, but our daughters are way more financially sophisticated.

Beautiful children or big money. If you can’t provide those, then write all the poetry you want because the girls are waiting for someone who can provide those.


46 posted on 04/17/2015 6:26:15 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is another celebrity who has been outspoken about the negative impact of pornography, most notably in his 2013 movie “Don Jon,” which he wrote, directed and co-starred in along with Scarlett Johansson. The film explores the unrealistic expectations of love and relationships that come from pornography addictions and from the media at large.

This spoils an otherwise decent article. For God's sake people, just because some Hollywood idiot is in a movie about a thing, it doesn't make him an expert in that thing, so quit quoting Hollywood idiots as authorities.
47 posted on 04/17/2015 6:43:13 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I think the fact that an accidental pregnancy can make a young man a slave to the government for 20 years or so could have something to do with it. The laws in this country are now set up to screw men in every aspect of relationships with women. The feminists did that, now they are unhappy when men decide to opt out.


48 posted on 04/17/2015 6:45:05 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: Thorliveshere

Congratulations! You have moved into a place most will never find.

I have been married for 23 years.

My intimacy with my wife grows better every day.

If you will trust in the Lord Jesus Christs righteousness he will give you satisfaction beyond anything immorality has to offer. You can be hers and she can be yours.


49 posted on 04/17/2015 6:47:45 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: Mrs. Don-o

ummmm.....

I would not agree, for the same reasoning that lung cancer is all due to smoking..


50 posted on 04/17/2015 6:48:51 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I believe they said the same thing about nudist colonies and Playboy fifty years ago.


51 posted on 04/17/2015 6:48:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( BEWARE the EVIL EYE from HILLARY!)
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To: Greysard

Yet marriage is the picture that God gives of His relationship to the Church. A relationship where the husband loves his wife enough to give His life for her, and the wife respects her husband enough to give up her control for Him.

It’s not a business arrangement. It’s not a “what’s in it for me?” For men and women it’s a chance to learn where they are still immature brats and be forced to grow up. Growing up is worth that pain, and what is born out of it all is the ability to love without thought of what you get back. “Fireproof” is a fantastic movie that really addresses what real love is. It doesn’t just happen in marriage, but marriage is a place where it is tested beyond most other relationships.

I understand men being afraid, but love is worth it. The trick is to find a spouse who is ALSO willing to be filled with Jesus’ love and to spend a lifetime passing on that love and growing out of their own selfishness. If both people are doing that, it’s a totally different ballgame than what you’ve described, which is truly a scary prospect.


52 posted on 04/17/2015 7:18:44 PM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: gaijin

The West is dead. Fleeing to Russia looks really good now. Their civilization is not ay a risk of collapse unlike ours.


53 posted on 04/17/2015 7:19:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: DaveyB

Soap operas are basically porn for women, and they can be just as damaging as male porn, for the same reasons.

Point made, and accepted.


54 posted on 04/17/2015 7:21:26 PM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g g)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Oddly, a week ago, I read that men are turning to porn more because they can’t be bothered with the games women play between who’ll Theyll date and who they want to be with and what they say they want and what they seem to want....


55 posted on 04/17/2015 7:29:36 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Algore invented the Internet and barack Obama is destroying the Internet with his FCC getting control of the Internet


56 posted on 04/17/2015 7:37:39 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: xp38

Unless you’re the son of an upper management type and a minority to boot. Stay on the payroll, get an office, and a promotion, presumably out of the way.


57 posted on 04/17/2015 7:39:31 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Well, let’s see what happens when Planned Parenthood finds out!!!


58 posted on 04/17/2015 7:54:41 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so.


59 posted on 04/17/2015 7:55:22 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Is Real Doll business booming?


60 posted on 04/17/2015 7:59:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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