[domenad]

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.

[nickcarraway]

Since more married men are pedophiles, then single men, does that mean damaged and unstable men often seek out marriage?

[narses]

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.

[Straight Vermonter]

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.

[RoadTest]

"Damaged and unstable men often look at pornography; pornography does not in and of itself create damaged and unstable men."

Pornography is the plaything of immature and emotionally troubled men. There's nothing "adult" about it. It's for sexual retards. And the big trouble with it is that it hooks right up to perversion, pedaphelia (as has already been mentioned) and every other sexual deviance.

The speed increases the longer one is into it, and leads to crashes (serious trouble in one's life).

[Hardastarboard]

You are of course, right, but a LOT of people are incapable of separating cause and effect.

[brytlea]

Do you have proof that this is true?
susie

[joesnuffy]

Not true -images themselves have a power over people...and many men are subject to such imagry addiction..

See it often enough and most normal men will succumb to a certain extent to bad and compulsive thought processes...fantasies..

Like many bad destructive habits...they have a couple of components...peer pressure...adult mentor pressure...social pressures..plus physically addictive components.

They wont all commit crimes...but they will eventually become addicted to the neuro hormones the imagery promotes the secretion of..and unhealthy thought pattern habits..fantasies.

The under reported crime...is the loss of real intimacy with spouse and even meaningful interaction with children..daughters will be emotionally harmed by being ignored and sons will be led astray by dad's bent view of reality and unhealthy intimate marital relationships

imo

[Maeve]

Damaged and unstable men often look at pornography; pornography does not in and of itself create damaged and unstable men.

Load of crap arising from a guilty conscience.