Posted on 06/17/2002 8:25:38 PM PDT by JMJ333
What about the so many who become addicted to it, ignoring their spouses and children and jobs? What about the many husbands who no longer find their wives sexually attractive, given the unavailable women they get off to sexually with their porn? What about the men and women who become entangled in dangerous sex practices as a result of using porn (and being tempted by what it displays). It's basically a narcotic for many, which sets off sections of the brain. Little of any good comes from it, and a lot of bad does.
Neither do I try to refute the loonies who
would tell me the horrors of smoking cigarettes,
drinking beer, having an abortion, or any other legal activity
for an adult. I will not defame my liberty by
submitting it to your approval.
Like alcholics and drug users, those addicted to porn rarely realize the harm it's causing them until such harm becomes substantial.
Maybe it's because we have bigger fish to fry than to worry about the "horror" of Porno. Just today I found court documents showing that Timothy McVeigh lived here in Ft. Lauderdale at the same time as Jose Padilla. Today I also found info that the Feds have suppressed at least one surveillance camera tape of John Doe #2. Today I found out that Jose Padilla and John Doe #2 may have had the exact same scars on their cheeks. Today I provided a solid thesis that if McVeigh and Padilla had met it was most likely at the Ft. Lauderdale War Memorial Auditorium Gun Show...and I gave a strong thesis on how they met there.
Sorry if I don't care to waste my time going point by point to "refute" your article. I just don't care. It's just not all that important.
Actually, if you compare the ratios of:
- bartenders to drunk drivers
- porn stars to porn addicts/offenders
You might find a much closer comparison in destroyed lives, though admittedly, not necessarily maimed or killed innocent bystanders (such as you were).
What about it? I don't know of any instances, but will cede to you
that it can happen. Are we not free to pursue happiness?
Well, not exactly, and not according to the Constitution.
Do you feel similarly about the crime and murder depicted in PG entertainment? I've watched a few porn videos and there's not any murder. Would you prefer that teenaged boys play first person shooting spree video games? Or would you repress it all? Japan is a repressed society, and their porn really reflects it.
I care that there will always be people out there
terrified at the prospect that someone else is enjoying themselves.
The lifestyle police have to be pressed back continuously.
Pride
Avarice
Lust
Envy
Gluttony
Sloth
Anger
Who is to say which is the worst of sins for any given man or woman?
Because this obsession about porn only makes Freepers fair game for liberals. I cringe whenever I see some self-styled conservative get on the tube to rant about porn or some other meaningless nonsense. One of these folks is none other than Donna Rice (of "Monkey Business" fame) who has an obsession about Web porn.
(For the record, I am against "smoking laws").
Pornography reduces the person to a thing. Perhaps a more revealing way of putting it is to say that pornography exchanges a name for a number. Hence its preoccupation with numbers: the size of the organs, the duration of intercourse, the number of partners, the frequency and intensity of orgasm. The so-called "vital statistics" do not denote life as such as much as a person reduced to a thing.
Mechanization, which invariably stamps things with sameness, has a strong affinity with pornography. They are both highly impersonal processes whose language is not of names, but of numbers. Pornography forces the impression upon the imagination that a human being is not an individualized person, but an amalgam of parts. One of the more pernicious consequences of the Freudean reduction of the person to conflicting parts is the willingness to ascribe rights to its most basic part, namely, the id. O. Hobart Mowrer has inveighed against Freudeanism for "championing the rights of the body in opposition to a society and moral order which were presumed to be unduly harsh and arbitrary."
Very accurate account of the effects of reductionsim. It reduces human beings to mere playthings and sex machines. It denegrates the sacredness of marriage, family and human life. It transforms sex from a communion of life and love into a simple tool of voyerisitic gratification.
Well, not exactly, and not according to the Constitution.
What part of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
remains hidden to you?
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