"INTERNET PORN UPDATE"

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[PianoMan]

Free Republic - the crack cocaine of conservatism.

[Constitution Day]

Free Republic - the crack cocaine of conservatism.

I can quit anytime I want. Honest I can.

[BJClinton]

Hmm...from the title I thought FR was looking into an alternate source of income.

[Pahuanui]

Hyperbolic cognitive dissonance alert!

Notice the lack of differentiation between this:

Dr. Stephen Brockway, is a psychiatrist who says he has patients who spend 10 hours at a time on the Internet viewing pornography, "they don't eat, don't sleep," he said. "We call the Internet the crack cocaine of sex addiction."

And this:

Will it be when our children and grandchildren are destroyed because due to years of viewing illegal smut?

Logical congruency is our friend.

[ffusco]

Ever try to go cold turkey?

[spodefly]

I see the internet as a giant virtual city. Just as most cities have a 'red light' district, or at least, an area where sex shops, peep shows, adult entertainment, etc. is located, so does the internet. And just like the analogous city, I can choose to go to that part of town, or not.

If you stay out of that part of town, you have nothing to worry about.

[Constitution Day]

Nope. I don't think I could take it.
However, last summer I went on vacation & didn't Freep all week.

I also don't post on the weekends, normally. I guess there is hope for me. :)

[weegee]

Sex addiction doesn't require a computer. Bill Clinton does just fine harrassing women who get within his grasp.

Some stake out the bars or college parties. Some frequent strip joints and prostitutes.

Those relationships are no more meaningful than the internet geek's.

Internet usage (even non-porn sites like FR) can be an addiction just like tv viewing can be an addiction.

[Djarum]

If you stay out of that part of town, you have nothing to worry about.

But we can't risk allowing people to control themselves!</sarcasm>

[bayourod]

Is this organization one of those front groups for some competing special interest lobby? Maybe the strip club owners' association or porno magazine publishers or eBay?

[malakhi]

There's PORN on the internet?

[babyface00]

I'm shocked. Shocked!

[dfrussell]

Folks, if you want to get rid of dirty eamil, you are wasting your time signing petitions and marching. Just get an email id from an ISP using (several) blacklists... if you're *really* anal use a whitelist (no one except people in your list can send email to you).

Nasty spam isn't going away because most if it is sent from Korea, China, Brazil, etc., and you can march all you want and they aren't going to care.

Well, on second thought they might care because a lot of marchers would mean a lot of people received their spam.

http://www.spamcop.net -- and has whitelists etc.

http://www.hushmail.com -- all of the above and SSL and PGP for end to end encryption.

And no, I don't profit from either.

[Paul Atreides]

Dr. Stephen Brockway, is a psychiatrist who says he has patients who spend 10 hours at a time on the Internet viewing pornography, "they don't eat, don't sleep," he said. "We call the Internet the crack cocaine of sex addiction."

[mc5cents]

I can quit anytime I want. Honest I can.

Mark Twain said as much of his smoking cigars. He said that he was not addicted and could quit anytime he wanted, he had done it a thousand times.

[Maceman]

Although I am loathe to run to the government to solve our problems, I must say that these unsolicited graphic porno e-mails are really a problem that needs to be stopped.

The essence of a free market is a voluntary interaction between two entities. Such interactions ought not generally be subject to government control. Bu I am not a voluntary party to the graphical smut that fllods my mailbox every day.

I don't know if there is a technical way that the government can stop it, but if there is, I would support government involvement in this instance.

One thing I don't understand. I don't click on these e-mails, but I'm sure the people who send them accept credit card payments.

Even if it is impossible to track where these spammers are, certainly it is possible for the government to interfere with their status as credit card merchants.

Here is my suggestion:

1)The government sets up a national registry of people who don't want spam.

2) It sets up a second list of people who will volunteer to be spam watchers (all of whom would have to be on the first registry to qualify).

3) Once a spam watcher gets an unsolicited e-mail, he makes the credit card purchase. When the bill comes, he submits it to the feds, who can then order the card companies to trace the transaction and identify the account into which the proceeds are deposited. The account is immediately confiscated, with the spam watcher getting a reward, and the card company being reimbursed for the processing expense. The account holder would be subject to severe criminal sanctions.

4) If a card company continues to make any subsequent deposits to that account, it gets assessed a fine.

I'm sure that some type of system along these lines would be both workable and effective.

Whaddya'll think, fellow freepers?

[Junior]

Ever try to go cold turkey?

Kleenex is more sanitary.

[Luis Gonzalez]

[Mr. Mojo]

University of Pennsylvania psychologist Mary Ann Layden warns, that when introduced to the brain, pornography can become "an addictive substance...that's harder for the porn addict to go into remission than the cocaine addict."

BS. The "porn addict" has a psychological addiction and the cocaine addict's addiction is both psychological and physical.