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Gee, I didn't know there wasn't enough awareness of pornography.
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Here is the real sad part. The Reagan and Bush1 Justice Departments really went after the Porn industry. They had them on the ropes. When BJ came into office, they diid absolutely NOTHING to stop porn. Consequently, they florished.
Porn is just way too available to teens nowadays and is turning our upcoming generation into sexual deviants.
How about Pornography LESS awarness week? That would be better!
Actually the 12-17 year old demographic is a kind of 'duh!' That's the age in the old days that probably accounted for most of the circulation of Playboy (remember circulation isn't measured by purchasers, but by those who 'read' the publication): males with raging hormones who aren't getting any are largely concentrated in that age demographic.
Do they actually have any proof that 12-17 year olds are the largest porn viewing demographic? I don't believe that at all. Make it 16-21 and I'll easily believe it.
Just a few thoughts about this article, really not so much thoughts as questions.
...the largest group of Internet porn viewers are children between the ages of 12 and 17 and he said that many parents are totally unaware of the fact that their children might be exposed at all. How do they know that 12-17 year-olds comprise the largest viewing audience of porn, when most parents themselves don't even know?
...the average age that children first come into contact with pornographic material is 9 years old. What type of porn does a 9 year-old come into to contact with/exposure to? SI Swimsuit Edition? The lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog? Just what is their definition of porn? How do they calculate the average age and what was the sample size?
While I'm sure it would dismay the good Cardinal, evidence indicates that internet porn has led to a decrease in the number or reported rapes.
In short, a reader doesn't have any idea what or who was sampled and what definitions/criteria are used. The definitions of porn could be so broad that seeing the swimsuit portion of the Miss America Pageant could qualify, who knows? In all likelihood, this is typical alarmist BS coming from a denomination that has no room to lecture anyone on sexual impropriety. I'm sure you think differently, oh well.
I wish they had called it something other than "Pornography Awareness Week."
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Mark B. Kastleman, The Drug of the New Millennium: The Science of How Internet Pornography Radically Alters the Human Brain and Body, 2nd edition, Granite Publishing, Orem (UT), 2001; see also, http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html, accessed on: July 18, 2001; Bella English, "The Secret Life of Boys: Pornography Is a Mouse Click Away, and Kids Are Being Exposed to It in Ever-Increasing Numbers," The Boston Globe, May 12, 2005; Crystal Roberts, Internet Filtering and Blocking Technology: The Most Effective Methods of Protecting Children from Pornography, Family Research Council, Washington (DC): September 3, 1999, available at http://www.copacommission.org/papers/ is99g2pn.pdf, accessed on: July 15, 2005
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Libertarians oppose child porn and children having access to porn just like everyone else.
If you want to fight porn, fight it from a free market perspective instead of a social issue one.
No matter how hard the social conservative busybodies try, you cannot repeal the laws of supply and demand.