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What the ‘Average Joe’ Can Do About Porn…and Why - (caution; for adult readers only)
CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA.ORG ^ | MAY 24, 2005 | SARA BRODE

Posted on 05/24/2005 1:42:28 PM PDT by CHARLITE

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To: Modernman

Great one! You can't argue with some people, they are totally closed to rational thought.


201 posted on 05/24/2005 3:02:13 PM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: chris1

Didn't Dr. Laura pose for porn? I'm kidding, I like Dr. Laura! I haven't read the book so I can't comment but my husband tells me for him sex is the cure all for everything. Bad moods, bad back, headache, stress and sometimes if he really wants it - he'll pay me ;)


202 posted on 05/24/2005 3:02:15 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Hmm, this is like someone hitting you in the head with a baseball bat and you are telling yourself it's a feather.

No, it actually isn't like that at all.

In reality, you and I are going to die, that is the extreme absolute.

Yes, indeedy. That appears to be an extreme absolute! We should all strive to live a life that will be deemed worth living when that day comes.

203 posted on 05/24/2005 3:02:29 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Beth528
I have never been to a porn site and know nothing about what is on them.

Generally, they have pictures of one or more legal adults participating in activities that they consented to, while being photographed and videotaped, again with their consent.
I honestly don't think I've ever seen a porn site pandering to children, much less trying to get them to follow them to their van. Remember, most pornographers are in it for the money, that's it. Trying to attract customers under 21 would be an invitation for legal action, which hurts the bottom line. Predators that try to lure children tend to use chat rooms, web sites leave too much of a trail.

204 posted on 05/24/2005 3:03:22 PM PDT by ericc4
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To: squarebarb

Was she for it or against it?


205 posted on 05/24/2005 3:03:31 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: AntiGuv

Well, at least we can agree with one thing


206 posted on 05/24/2005 3:03:51 PM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Have you gotten your Viking Kittie Patch today? http://www.visualops.com/patch.html)
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To: Zavien Doombringer

Yes! Can you feel the love?? =)


207 posted on 05/24/2005 3:04:43 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Zavien Doombringer
For some, porn starts in the bra ads in the newspaper, for others it starts in the Victoria Secret Catalog or Frederick's of Hollywood.

For me, it began with She-Ra, Princess of Power. If only the First Amendment had been repealed way back then, I could have been saved :(


208 posted on 05/24/2005 3:04:46 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP ("The Republican Party is the France of politics" - Laz)
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To: Zavien Doombringer

I think he meant with the intent to commit adultery with her.


209 posted on 05/24/2005 3:05:12 PM PDT by ericc4
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To: finnman69

Any thread on porn draws the perverts who defend it, and it is almost impossible to have an interliigent discussion on porn on FR for the addicts that quickly show up, flapping their leathern wings, to make snide, clever remarks, deride, make fun, indulge in circular arguments and in general force people who want to have an intelligent discussion on the matter to deal with them.

Porn is an addiction. Addicts are ashamed of it. They try to cover up. They try to both justify and conceal, which is what all of these people who are pro-porn are doing on this thread. I've seen it ever since I have been on FR


210 posted on 05/24/2005 3:05:28 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: conserv13

Quote (Cause I dont know how to put italics)




...particular gift from Satan.
Are you saying porn is a gift from Satan?

Thanks Satan!



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You just cracked me up. I was sitting at work perusing a few titles here. I laughed out loud, co-workers looked at me. Then I thought about the movie "Animal House" Thank you God! (Sorority girl in window)

Now for my serious well thought out response. Nyah nyah, oh wait I said serious. I have looked at porn. My wife has looked at porn. I have been married almost 20 years. I have a teenage daughter and son (fraternal twins). To the best of my knowledge, my occasional forays into the nasty underworld of porn have not led me to rape anyone, molest any children, or grow fur on my hands.


211 posted on 05/24/2005 3:05:32 PM PDT by USAFJeeper
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To: CHARLITE
“I’ve never met a police officer yet who investigated a pedophile that did not find pornography. Every one of them said pornography is always on the scene.”

This statement has so many logical flaws it's difficult to know where to begin. First of all, the speaker personalizes the statement: "I've never met ..." I don't know who the speaker has met and who he hasn't. I don't know how many -- if any -- police officers he's met or who's investigated a pedophile. And even if the number is significant, it doesn't qualify as any kind of benchmark.

Secondly, and most egregiously, is the specious causal link. Since all these officers investigating pedophiles found pornography, pornography and pedophilia must somehow be linked. Of course, the implication is that pornography somehow causes pedophilia. If the opposite inference were to be drawn, then the speaker would be indicting pedophilia, not pornography.

Finally, the fact that pornography is "always on the scene" is a meaningless generality. What constitutes pornography, for starters? And what does it mean to be "on the scene?" In the same house? Lying all over the floor? Cut and taped to walls? Hidden in underwear drawers? I'll bet 90 percent of households in the US have some kind of "pornography" "on the scene."

These feeble attempts to make pornography a sickness do nothing but discredit their authors.

212 posted on 05/24/2005 3:06:06 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: squarebarb
Porn is an addiction. Addicts are ashamed of it. They try to cover up. They try to both justify and conceal, which is what all of these people who are pro-porn are doing on this thread.

Talk about circular arguments.......

213 posted on 05/24/2005 3:07:53 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. " -Bismarck)
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To: TightyRighty

Thre truth is that men's biology is such that a normal male always wants sex and thinks about it all the time. Physically, it is an always present urge, that's reality.

For women, its hard to understand that about men because their biology is different.

Case in point, a friend of mine was on a dry spell with his wife and the grandparents were bugging him to give them a grandkid. They were akll driving home from a party and he was feeling frisky. It was like 10:00 at night and he sensed that his wife was getting a we bit tired. The in-laws stopped at 7-11 for something. He went in and got everyone the Starbucks double shot of espresso, in a sneaky attempt to wake his wife up for sex later on. The mother-in law said to him in front of wife "You are trying to get laid arn't you?" He was mortified but responded "You do want a grandkid right???"


214 posted on 05/24/2005 3:08:31 PM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: balch3

Nothing against Dobson, but Bundy told Dobson everything Dobson wanted to hear, so Dobson believed it.


215 posted on 05/24/2005 3:09:00 PM PDT by Melas
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To: CHARLITE
“I’ve never met a police officer yet who investigated a pedophile that did not find pornography. Every one of them said pornography is always on the scene.”

CHILD porn or legal porn? There is a difference.

216 posted on 05/24/2005 3:09:18 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP ("The Republican Party is the France of politics" - Laz)
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To: IronJack

damn well said.


217 posted on 05/24/2005 3:09:33 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: squarebarb
Porn is an addiction.

That statement is false. Porn can be addictive, but it is not inherently an addiction.

Addicts are ashamed of it.

Actually, I see a whole lot of shamelessness in this thread! I certainly am not ashamed of anything here.

They try to cover up.

Cover what up?

218 posted on 05/24/2005 3:10:07 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: squarebarb
Porn is an addiction. Addicts are ashamed of it. They try to cover up. They try to both justify and conceal, which is what all of these people who are pro-porn are doing on this thread. I've seen it ever since I have been on FR

Yes.

They know it's wrong.

If these folks truly believed porn *isn't* wrong they'd have no problem "enjoying" it in front of their children and grandchildren.

But porn is something to hide, because of the immorality of using it and the guilt that inevitably follows.

219 posted on 05/24/2005 3:10:09 PM PDT by k2blader ("A kingdom of conscience ... That is what lies at the end of Crusade.")
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To: ericc4

That's what I meant indeed. I would never cheat as I love her more than anyone on this planet and am in every way attracted to her, physically and emotionally. She knows it too.


220 posted on 05/24/2005 3:10:21 PM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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