Posted on 04/15/2006 10:35:45 AM PDT by wagglebee
DISCUSSION ABOUT:
"The Road to Perversion Is Paved With Pornography"
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Porn is good.
I don't believe pornography creates these problems any more than I believe that the Catholic priesthood requirement of celibacy creates pedophiles. The causality is backwards. Damaged and unstable men often look at pornography; pornography does not in and of itself create damaged and unstable men.
The culture and sex education also makes children more vulnerable to sexual predators. Take, for example, the Jame Rose Bolin out in Oklahoma.
I agree with statement #1 but it is none of my business if someone else chooses to look at adult porn.
As for statement # 2, that is way over the top. When you consider the size of the porn industry to the number of pedophiles, there is no causal connection. The pedophile would be trolling for little kids with or without adult porn.
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And just because some hot young goat bats his eyes at you and seduces you, that don't mean your a goat-f*#ker. Blame internet goat porn.
Since more married men are pedophiles, then single men, does that mean damaged and unstable men often seek out marriage?
Porn is the symptom, but it is also a vector. Our culture has so degraded sex that it is now 'just' a commodity to be bought or sold. Prostitution is viewed by many to be a 'victimless' crime and so is porn (almost always the byproduct of sex for sale btw). That culture crafts a demand for sex and since sex outside of a loving married life is rapidly unsatisfying for many, the need more and more stimulus and that leads to the explosion of perversity going on around you.
Go to www.myspace.com and ogle your neighbors girl children. Or keep denying that there is a problem.
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I think your post was right on target...about 20 years ago. With the "normailizing" of pornography and its much greater availability men who never would have gone into an adult bookstore or rented a porn movie now can get pictures or video on the net or on TV.
Guys are guys and the sex drive is enormously powerful. When it is cranked up and the ma'sn mind and body expects instant sexual gratification then it is very destructive to his relationships with real women.
Pornography is merely a symptom. The core problems are lack of identity and purpose, and in desperate fashion this yawning gulf inside the soul is filled with perversion.
Belief in God, not censorship, is the solution to the problem. But the modern American is too sophisticated for such a simplistic, backwards answer to his questions about the nature of the universe and his place within it.
Before or after they look for their reading glasses? :)
There is much truth in what you say. Laws against porn aren't a bad idea though, at least not imho.
I was all set to agree and give my contibution to a discussion about porn, but this idiot went so far out into la-la land she cut off most of her readers.
Treating adults like children seems like a bad idea to me.
I think we had pedophiles before the internet.
I think the number of older men trying to pick up young girls might drop if our malls would enforcea dress code . I was at the White Marsh Mall in MD last night and believe me, even the Pope would have been in conflict.
This is true and very important.
Take this as a warning, guys: don't assume it's harmless and that you will control where you go or what happens. It's a baited hook and the wise move is to turn away from it.
Adults acting like children isn't a good idea.
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