Posted on 04/26/2011 1:16:40 PM PDT by pinochet
I recently had a conversation with a missionary who has worked in the Middle East and South Asia. He told me that most Middle Easterners who get internet access, usually get to learn about America's huge internet pornography industry.
He says that the porn industry causes many foreigners to have contempt for America, as a nation of moral degenerates. This greatly harms attempts by American missionaries to get converts. It also harms US foreign policy, because their image of American culture, is that of gay sex pictures, bestiality pictures, and other peversions.
I do not favor completely outlawing pornography. But I believe that all internet websites should be blocked off, with access being made possible only to adults who have credit cards. What do you think of the idea?
Your vow of celibacy, though mercifully short lived, hurt America's image in foreign countries more than any luscious babe with big hoots doing what comes natural.
Like faggotry, just keep your porn in the closet and we’ll ignore it.
This could get into many grey areas. What about 2 people “between the sheets” in an R-rated movie? I am pretty sure they are depicting a sex act. Does that make it pornography?
Who gets to define what constitutes “pornography”?
We figured it out in the 50s. I would rather swing more right than wrong on this subject. I have seen Victoria secret ads at 7 PM on TV. Of course, VS is nothing compared to other commercials and TV shows. Soft porn is all over the place. No name calling here for me, but I would rather err on the side of decency that on the side of porn.
Time to bring back the Blue Laws.
This country has been going down hill ever since women were allowed to buy pantyhose on Sunday.
If than must mean because.
You sound like a Prohibitionist from ages past. The desire to control things always bites back.
The clue is that NO ONE CAN DEFINE PORNOGRAPHY but they know what they like.
America did not create pornography.
America is not the source of the rawest pornography (there are still laws here against obscenity, unlike many other countries).
America allows pornography because America allows free speech, a fact that should ENHANCE its image abroad, not hurt it.
America should never sacrifice freedoms to earn the world’s favor.
Much of the porn viewed on the internet is free, so I doubt your plan would work. Its ready access by children may actually be its death; a large part of porn’s appeal is its salaciousness, the “forbidden fruit” nature of its subject. If kids have been exposed to it for years, it removes much of that mystique and renders it just another ho-hum subject on the internet.
So you would support bringing back The Hays Commission?
It depends on how you define ‘success’ not how you define pornography. There are working definitions of illegal pornography, for instance. Pornography has been more or less successfully defined since the word was coined a century or so ago with the discovery of erotic images in Pompeii. It means, literally, ‘pictures of prostitutes’. Myaybe there should be a distinction made between the will to enforce and the definition.
I agree. The rise of Islamic terrorism coincides closely with the advent of satellite TV -- long before the internet.
While this may or may not be true, I still oppose pandering to the ignorant by destroying our own liberties.
“Myaybe”
Maybe I should also pay better attention to spell check.
On a thread several months or years ago, a study was published that showed that a very large percentage of porno site hits came from the Middle East. Physician, heal thyself.
I have only stumbled across one pornographic image by accident in internet searches. I’ve never stumbled across a pornographic video.
If these Middle Easterners are seeing enough porn to hold our culture in contempt, then they’re looking for it and watching it. It’s part of their culture too.
It’s true that they problably don’t have many porn stars there, because they would be stoned, ladies first.
What’s not part of their culture is “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Maybe that seems contemptible and weak to them also.
Boy oh boy....I am having to delete my comments I just typed in.
As much as i hate what porn does to our image,,, regulating the internet is EXTREMELY dangerous.
The wide open internet is the thing that the conspirators destroying America utterly fear. They fear it even more than our guns.
Imagine it is 1982. We wouldn’t know a WORD about Obama and the birth certificate, or his criminal associates. Dan Rathers memo would have been successful.The FR expert could have told his friends and family,, but try to get it into a paper or on the news.
TEA would have been almost impossible before. NO way to quickly communicate. And for those who think it would stop at porn, please point to one single government effort that doesnt IMMEDIATLY expand.
For a perfect examply look at Homeland Security (the dept with the creepy NAZI name). It was to keep Islamic Terrorists off planes and to prevent another 9/11. Now they are looking at the pirating of movies, hiring muslim brotherhood symapthizers, headed by a bull-dyke who wants open borders, and they think white, Ron Paul backing, gun-owning citizens are the most imminent threat. They are working daily to root out islamaphobia and anti-mexican attitudes. No, they will not stay long on just porn.
As distastful as it is,, the last thing we should ever want is the US GOVERNMENT to have an excuse to regulate content on the internet. The missionaries will ahve to do the best they can,, this is FAR too important of a wepon to risk losing.
“He says that the porn industry causes many foreigners to have contempt for America, as a nation of moral degenerates”
Your friend is clueless. Those holier than though types are the biggest consumers of porn. Like Utah in USA http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705288350/Utah-No-1-in-online-porn-subscriptions-report-says.html (they win the Prozac race too)
Or Pakistan http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/07/14/pakistans-dirty-little-porn-secret/
If they (other countries) have a problem with porn, movies, TV shows, music etc. then WHY are they viewing it? If I find some website or TV show offensive then I DON’T VIEW IT! The corrolary to that is I DON’T EVER RETURN TO THOSE SITES/SHOWS!
Personal responsibility used to be expected behavior, even abroad.
Just keep in mind that democrats have referred to sites like FR as disgusting and offensive so how are you going to control who makes the rules? Right now that would be democrats and they are actively engaged in trying to shut down talk radio, conservative web sites and any dissent.
FUBO & FAD
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