Posted on 11/25/2005 2:49:03 PM PST by wagglebee
Following a recent interview for yet another documentary on pornography, I thought of so many things I should have said about pornography.
I had discussed its role as producing impotence, robbing men of their manhood. I had addressed its psychopharmacology as an "erototoxin." I had documented its presence in adultery, divorce, rape, child sex abuse and incest.
Civility, humanity, I said, has always hung by the thinnest of threads. We allow ourselves to be coarsened at the greatest risk. Life in the last five decades should have proven to us all – or at least to any hominoid with a modicum of sense – that the license of licentiousness is always followed by the most heart-rending violence to our bodies and our souls. We can daily see around us that the most vulnerable, the smallest and the weakest pay the price for our arrogance and our appallingly selfish ignorance.
I watched television on and off this evening. I switched from one station to another, revolted by one sudden graphic depiction of a crime show's serial rapist torturing his female victims. Another station dramatized a vicious tale of children being prostituted by dad.
I next saw a defaced young male corpse, at first thought to be a boy who had defended a brutally raped young girl. Cadavers, once restricted to horror flicks are now a TV staple. The dead are commonly uncovered (still neck up) and discussed by a coolly attractive and yet sympathetic female coroner – often a minority woman – filling the professional working-woman diversity quota, while thrilling the desensitized audience at the same time.
On another station, "Dr. Phil's" team is seeking missing American girls. Their distraught parents on camera, Dr. Phil explains that the girls are doubtless dead or enslaved in the foreign sex traffic.
During commercials, a lovely female newscaster says stay tuned for the "news" story of an 8-year-old being marketed for sex. Also "coming up," says another professional lady news "reporter," police just rescued a kidnapped teenager who had been locked in a dog kennel and rented out for sadistic sex. The "news" announcement of coming attractions shows police carrying out the dog kennel should anyone miss the latest in "how-to" commit copy-cat sex hate crimes.
ABC's "Prime Time" righteously reports on the increase in sex crimes, including murder on American university campuses, suggesting that silly kids just don't protect themselves and that the universities don't police sufficiently. True, as far as that goes.
Naturally "Prime Time" makes no connection between sex crimes and their own fare – such as "Desperate Housewives" – entertaining the public with adultery, drug use, prostitution and mom's sex with teenage boys. "CSI" on CBS, NBC's "Law & Order," and "Sex and the City" are now inseparable from the "news" of dog kennels and Dr. Phil's search for child pornographers as we are driven into the pornographic sewer of thematic coming-of-age adventures.
"But, are you sure it's not just more reporting?"
In all of these emotional molecules of dramas and news stories, the good guys are good; prosecuting minorities and lady lawyers are wonderfully empathetic; coroners notably dispassionate but caring. Women are getting equal time as rape and torture victims and as professional legal and crime-solving mavens.
Of course, the Big Five mass media corporations, those which Michelle Malkin calls the most effective corporate pimps of human history – Time Warner, Disney, Viacom-CBS, NewsCorp and AT&T – are raking in the money by exploiting visual sado-sexual brutality as far as they can.
For unless it's "child pornography," TV dramas and news programs never use the word "pornography." No news or drama programs ever describe the media itselfas causing copy-cat crime and sado-sexual violence.
The mass media breeds serial-rapist-murdering juveniles and adults who imbibe their stimuli alongside Internet sex games and legal pornography, while Big Pharma hawks every sex and depression medication it legally can inbetween these increasingly pornographic programs.
One neurologist writes, our "brains are not in charge;" our bodies are our "subconscious minds." If so, our bodies are being aroused and conditioned to children locked in dog kennels for sex, cadavers coolly uncovered and sado-sexual lust dramas alongside Madonna (also on television the last day or so) as a new, happy "mom."
This is the same Madonna who tongue-kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on the MTV Awards in 2003, while her 6-year-old daughter (dressed in first-communion white, wearing a "BOY TOY" belt) tossed flower petals on the dance floor.
James Joyce of "Ulysses" obscenity fame, said all pornographic spectacles rouse the flesh to reflex actions of the nervous system. Yes, our body is our subconscious mind.
Ah, for those clucking, elderly ladies who kept the young in check by their repressive gossip, as described by Evelyn Waugh in "Brideshead Revisited." Gone.
Instead, we have widespread mass-media pornography to breed a cultural collapse that is beginning to rival the sado-sexual brutality and insanity of the likes of Titus, Caligula and Nero.
People who claim that what they (or anyone else) watches, reads, listens to etc has no affect, your argument proves it to be a lie.
"If TV does not affect behavior, then why all the millions spent on commercials?"
Maybe she found that guys who look at pornography find it hard to have sex wih real women.
"Since 2000, the overall number of sexual assaults — including those reported to police and those not — dropped by 22%, according to the US Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey, the nation’s most detailed crime measure."
"In the last decade, the US has experienced an unprecedented decline in the number of sex crimes; the total is down by 58% since 1993."
I'm in my '40s, and I remember the mythical TV of the '60s and '70s. There were cop shows, but nothing close to what's on TV today.
iPorn is the next wave. Kids can now download porn and bring it to school. Parents who otherwise monitor their childrens' on-line activities will now be defenseless.
Hmm. Dr. Judy seems to have a rather deep obsession with this subject.
I firmly believe evil people do evil things. And I believe it's evil to produce pornography and sleaze and market it in every venue and profit from it.
Children these days have to be protected from even mainstream TV programming and commercials. Our degraded culture is hostile to innocence and childhood, and therefore will go the way of all decadent cultures.
"If TV does not affect behavior, then why all the millions spent on commercials?"
I didn't say that sentence (I did a dumb response to it), but I do agree with you. It's one reason my parents nor I have ever gotten cable TV.
And you have a deep obsession with those who oppose pornography.
Classic talking point of those who promote vice. That if we opposed vice, we must be secretly engaging in it or attracted to it.
Your argument is nothing more than either sheer studidity or something you're copying from a list.
Just to prove my point, those who opposed slavery really were secret slave owners.
Those who oppose homosexuals indoctrinating schoolchildren that "gay is good - try it, you'll like it" are secretly strugggling with our attraction to homosexuality.
Those who oppose the restriction of gun ownership really want to take away everyones' RTKBA.
Those who oppose abortion are secret abortionists.
Those who oppose terrorism are secretly applauding jihadis.
Those who oppose human traffickers are secretly supporting forced sexual slavery.
Etc etc etc.
You think we're all stupid?
This is such a cynical statement, you must have been born in the 70's or later...when I was raised in the late 50's and 60's there was none of this crap on television and guess what the correlating crimes are almost non-existent...check through crime reports and with law enforcement officials the rate and severity of these crimes has certainly increased...when I was a kid we used to roam the land free of worry that someone was going to grab us or rape us...today I don't and can't let my kids out of my sight...
Contradictory? Yes, on the surface.
It seems to me that the response to porn varies between individuals just as the response to alcohol varies between individuals. Some people who overindulge become loud and obnoxious; others who drink the same mix become withdrawn and quiet.
Just because two individuals have different responses to the same stimulus does not mean that there is no problem; it also does not mean that the person who identifies the problem is "a nut." IMHO, that magnifies the need to face the problem and deal with it.
someone has a case of rose colored glasses.
when were they? middle ages, age of discover (and disease), pioneer days, revolution, u.s. slavery era, civil war, reconstruction, prohibition era, the great depression, world war 2, cold war, civil rights era, sexual revolution?
i'd rather learn from the past instead of live in it. there is nothing new under the sun - especially when it comes to morals, or lack of them.
LBJ's Great Society: 40 Years Later
As bad as his failure in Vietnam proved to be, the results of his Great Society Programs were far more insidious, deadly and injurious to our Nation's psyche. The mammoth social welfare entitlement programs that streamed out of Washington did more damage to the fabric of our society than any number of Vietnams could have done. The irony is, that the segment of our society that it meant to help, was the one that was most grievously harmed. Of all those who fell victim to the welfare mentality, none suffered more than the black communities.
In the fifties, although blacks were still struggling for equal opportunities and were on the low end of the economic ladder, the black family was for the most part strong and stable. Two parent families were the rule, not the exception. They attended church together, had strong moral values, and did not comprise a majority of the prison population. Compare that to the present state of the black community after 40 years of Liberal Socialism. Our prisons are disproportionably black, unwed mothers and single parent families are the rule, black youths without a strong male role model other than rap stars and basketball players, roam the streets and are drawn into a culture of drugs and crime.
The following statistics are provided by Star Parker's Coalition of Urban Renewal, (CURE).
*60 percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes.
*800,000 black men are in jail or prison.
*70 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers.
*Over 300,000 black babies are aborted annually.
*50 percent of new AIDS cases are in the black community.
*Almost half of young black men in America's cities are neither working nor in school.
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