Posted on 11/19/2004 2:07:51 AM PST by kattracks
Researchers say...give us millions of taxpayers money to study this problem because porn is like heroin...blah blah blah.....Get the hell out of Dodge!!....Just another scam to bleed Joe Taxpayer.....Now...back to my favorite porn sites....leave me alone!
The public is generally not aware that sexual addiction is a growing concern - It destroys relationships, hurts careers and affects 3-5 percent of the population.
Like any other addiction, it is progressive and leads to higher and higher risk behaviors.
Chemical and other addictions get all the publicity but no one wants to acknowledge that a large percentage of our culture is hooked into a cycle of self destruction just as debilitating as drugs and alchohol.
"Adult entertainment;" now there's a euphemism, for something very, very immature. Some also don't get addicted to an occasional snort of cocaine, some smoke a cigarette, they say, just every once in a while. That hardly makes such practices healthy.
Saw a TV show recently, about people in San Francisco whose profession is to clean up after suicides. SF is the suicide capitol of the US. One said that it's almost a lock that where there is a suicide, there is alcohol, a gun, and pornography.
Does anyone ever ask for money to do anything out of realistically good intentions?
Such a slam without evidence is pretty sick.
Congratulations on your son being clean for a year - and good luck to him, you, and your family as you work through this trauma. Prayers and blessings to all concerned.
Not as addictive as Free Republic!
BINGO!!!
Looking at this issue, the Christian half of me wants to applaud efforts of looking and combating the ills of pornography, while the fiscal conservative half of me wants to remain sceptical because it involves a request of yet more public money for research.
I can also imagine scenarios in which John Edwards or other similar trial lawyers suing porn industry for damages, and liberal nanny-state bureaucrats rush in to regulate porn. Now given that many eplicit gay activists also upport porn, many social liberals also oppose banning porn, many in Hollywood are inching ever more towards real pornography, and the real porn industry also has many Democrats, will we end up with one mob of Democrats biting another?
But this battle will also be fought on the conservative side too. I can imagine libertarian-leaning people fighting Christian conservatives over this issue, and it is something we have to be prepared as well.
The real issue is that the individuals involved have pathologies that drive them to seek out porn, not that porn causes pathologies. I'm not approving of porn, but I don't really have any objection to it either. To say that porn causes any kind of problem is a bit of a stretch. I don't believe that seeing it would be good for kids, though, as it presents a very distorted world view that I personally don't believe kids are able to deal with emotionally. My .02.
Yeah, he did. He was using the story of "I'm a porn addict" to get sympathy and get out of the death penalty. Ted Bundy was a manipulative little s**t from the get-go: that's how he got into a position to kill all those women, and how he damn near got away with it.
quote: "Sex has never corrupted any one. If there are people who can't handle it responsibly, that's one thing. But to say it turns people into depraved, sex-addicted monsters is preposterous. By that logic, almost every man on earth, apart from those who live in monasteries, should be locked up simply for thinking about it."
Exactly. Except monks think about it even more - that's why they're monks. Pornography is the most widely used sex aid in the world. Pick something , and there will be some small percentage of people who abuse it. But those who look at what's abused as the source of the abuse are wrong. That's like saying wives cause wife abuse.
Addicted more to C.S.I. Las Vegas, New York, Miami and Navy C.S.I....Is this as bad as internet porno???
-"They called for billboards and bus ads warning people to avoid pornography, strip clubs and prostitutes."-
What, are they going to put up a huge picture of a prostitute or attractive porn queen and caption it with "Don't go there"? What a bunch of hooey.
What, did these researchers JUST NOW discover that porn et al is a bad thing for society? Just how long did it take 'em to figure that one out, and how much did the government pay for that no-brainer as well?
Researchers still trying to figure out sex et al should be barred from applying for any future grants. If you can't figure out these things out, you need to move to another field.
I'm more concerned about the not so small percentage of people willing to abuse the Commerce Clause for their own gratificaiton.
Why don't you just apply common sense? Consider the effects of appetite and ennui and the desire for more potency, when the appetite is for something outside of what satisfies and provides healthy nourishment. Also, consider the forces of supply and demand.
Without writing a dissertation, it isn't difficult.
If you think that taking what is meant to be intimately (read, privately) prized and shared between a husband and wife and making it common for strangers isn't unhealthy, though, maybe it doesn't do much good to keep applying words.
Just say NO to pornography.
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