This dopamine effect explains why pornography tends to become more and more extreme over time: ordinary sexual images eventually lose their power, leading consumers to need images that break other taboos in other kinds of ways, in order to feel as good. Moreover, some men (and women) have a “dopamine hole” – their brains’ reward systems are less efficient – making them more likely to become addicted to more extreme porn more easily.
Sounds like what Christian anti-porn crusaders have been saying for years.
I think of the gentleman I met several years ago-a fine itinerant Bible teacher. He said he had been keeping a confidential list of men who were once outstanding expositors of the Scripture, capable and respected men of God... who have shipwrecked their faith on the shoals of moral defilement. During the previous week, he said, he had entered the name of forty-two in his book. This sad, sordid statistic, he claims, caused him to be extra cautious and discreet in his own life. Perhaps, by now, he has added a couple dozen more.
A chill ran down my spine when he told that story. No one is immune. You're not. I'm not. Lust is no respecter of persons...lts alluring voice can infiltrate the most intelligent mind and cause its victim to believe its lies and respond to its appeal. And beware-it never gives up...it never runs out of ideas. Bolt your front door and it'll rattle at the bedroom window, crawl into the living room through the TV screen, or wink at you out of a magazine in the den...
Lust is persistent. If it's knocked on your door once, it'll knock again. And again. You are safe just so long as you draw upon your Savior's strength. Try to handle it yourself and you'll lose-every time. This is why we are warned again and again in the New Testament to flee sexual temptations. Remember, lust is committed to wage war against your soul-in a life-and-death struggle-in hand- to-hand combat. Don't stand before this mortal enemy and argue or fight in your own strength-run for cover...lf you get yourself into a situation that leaves you defenseless and weak, if your door is left even slightly ajar, you may be sure that this ancient enemy will kick it open with six-guns blazing. So don't leave it open. Don't give lust a foothold-or even a toehold.
Col. 3:5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature; sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
When I was 17 we had a country neighbor who was 16. Now she nearly drove me crazy. She would lead me to water but she would not let me drink.
She later won the local county beauty contest. She deserved it too.
“unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks”
then how do you know they existed?
Doubt it, does anyone know how to keep squirrels off your desk,????
If God says it’s not good for us, it’s not.
No, it’s making them go blind!
This statement really irritates me. It's the same logic used by Eleanor Clift to excuse Clinton for his escapades. Are we supposed to think that Anthony Weiner did his texting etc. because he was a powerful and thus sexually aggressive man? That's pathetic. What is a ‘powerful’ man? Someone who doesn't have the power to control their own appetites? Someone who is too narcissistic to look beyond themselves? If you can't control yourself you're not that ‘powerful’.
The Marquis de Sade wrote all his stuff before the advent of internets porn. Nabokov, too. Lady Chatterly’s Lover.
Seems that there have been a number of high-profile sex scandals before Algor invented cheap free gigabytes of pr0n.
The idea that a woman has complete domain over her own body —isn’t that an idea central to feminism..?
Sounds like intolerance to me....
What about the paradigm shift over the last decade: Now, when you hear about a teacher having sex with students it is ALWAYS a female teacher.
Yes, I said always.
wh-wh-a-wha-what?
There’s a story of an old native American talking to his grandson. He says “in me there are two wolves locked in battle. One is good, kind, and virtuous. The other is cruel, selfish, and wicked.”
“Which one will win Grandfather?” the boy asks.
“Wichever I feed more.” he replies
Is FR turning into DU? all this week Freepers have been posting articles from Politico, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Nation, and quoting Dana Millbank to trash Boehner, now Naomi Wolf is an authority?
Good lord am I in a parallel universe?
Wolf is a died in the wool feminist.
A friend of a friend told me of a couple who´ve had a great monogamous marriage through porn goin’ on near 40 years.
¨Yes. Well, I guess people do those things.¨
I think someone posted this a few weeks ago.
Like that never has happened before in history.
Here's an idea: why not elect people we can actually respect and even look up to instead of sleaze bags whose morals and habits make them utterly temptable and totally vulnerable to blackmail and worthy of nothing more than our disgust?
Might as well start now.
This thread is no good without pictures.