The Pornification of American Culture... "It is easier to get pornography than to avoid it. We have protected the rights of those who wish to live in a pornified culture while altogether ignoring the interests of those who do not." 2005 book, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
by Pamela Paul
http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201103/2...What has Porn added to our lives that we couldn't live without? I have done the research, there is no Nobel Peace Prize for pornography! Yet everywhere we can observe the devastation to families and communities, like my own, that experience this putrefaction first-hand. This week I was talking to a friend of mine that won a settlement with our Provincial Government in Supreme Court, over the disgusting infiltration of "nudists" in and around his property by a river. I say "nudists" because these are the new-breed of naked deviants to land on our beaches.
Public fornication in the middle of public access roads; rape and the sodomizing of passers-by; open defecation in rivers used for drinking water; and disposal of feminine hygiene products in the same waters or disposed of openly on access roads... without police intervention or deterrent. Not only can you see the worst kind of filth by internet, we now have those who openly practice this shame in front of anyone who passes by, from children to adults... there seems to be a rush towards total societal defilement.
"...researchers estimate porn is a $100-billion-a-year business worldwide. In the U.S. alone, people will spend $13.6 billion on porn this year. Technology has created a porn revolution. People of all ages have anonymous access to all types of porn, including 24.6 million pornographic websites, 12 percent of the entire Internet total. Around 25 percent of all Internet searches are porn related (68 million each day), and 35 percent of all downloads are pornographic. Each second in the U.S., people spend $3,075 on porn. In that same second, 28,000 Internet viewers are looking at porn."
http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201103/2...While media and Hollywood glamorizes porn, those in the industry tell another story of it's disgusting reality. Why are so many people trying to escape the clutches of porn addiction and sexual deviance if it is so fulfilling? Deviance has engulfed all levels of our society, to the point that there seems to be no discerning what is right and what is wrong. This week I read a Headline:
Judge tells teacher sex offender: 'I don't criticise you for being attracted to children' ...as a father of five children, I am almost sorry for bringing them into this world; it has become such a violently vomitous mess!
It is not enough to be "positive" about this degradation of society... we first must not contribute to it's decay. Take the sex out of schools, and put it back into marriages; take the Bible out of the waste basket, and put in back into practice; take the romance out of novels, and put it back into relationships; take back your self-respect, and show a little self-control; take lust out of your vocabulary, and replace it with love.
"How to Deal with Your Sexual Addiction
pornography, cybersex, phone sex, masturbation, etc."
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/s...
UPDATE - 6 months ago
"(Reuters) - Authorities said on Wednesday they have dismantled an online bulletin board allegedly used by 600 people around the world to trade graphic images and videos of child sex abuse."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0...
"Internet porn 'encourages sex offenders'
Pornography on the internet is normalising extreme fantasies and increasing the risk of sexual offences, psychologists have warned."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scien...
Pat Trueman says: "...many of the men involved in child porn did not start there. "They start with adult pornography, even soft-core pornography," Trueman explains. "But according to the brain science studies, the longer they're looking at it [and] the more they ingest, the more likely they are to move to harder and more deviant material and many move to child pornography."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default....
"So it is with men who immerse themselves in the me-first/pleasure/orgasm-centered world of Internet pornography. They keep everything for themselves. They even have sex with themselves, filling the role of both man and woman to reach sexual climax. Like the selfish sea, they can become truly dead in their desires and capacities to love, lift and serve those around them."
http://www.netnanny.com/learn_center/art...
"SLAVE MASTER
How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
by Donald L. Hilton, Jr.
What does this have to do with pornography? Pornography is a visual pheromone, a powerful, $100 billion per year brain drug that is changing human sexuality by "inhibiting orientation" and "disrupting pre-mating communication between the sexes by permeating the atmosphere," especially through the internet. I believe we are currently struggling in the war against pornography because many continue to believe two key fallacies:
Fallacy No. 1: Pornography is not a drug.
Fallacy No. 2: Pornography is therefore not a real addiction."
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/sal...
Pornography's Relationship to Rape and Sexual Violence
According to one study, early exposure (under fourteen years of age) to pornography is related to greater involvement in deviant sexual practice, particularly rape. Slightly more than one-third of the child molesters and rapists in this study claimed to have at least occasionally been incited to commit an offense by exposure to pornography. Among the child molesters incited, the study reported that 53 percent of them deliberately used the stimuli of pornography as they prepared to offend. i
The habitual consumption of pornography can result in a diminished satisfaction with mild forms of pornography and a correspondingly strong desire for more deviant and violent material.ii
Pornography's Relationship to Child Molestation
In a study of convicted child molesters, 77 percent of those who molested boys and 87 percent of those who molested girls admitted to the habitual use of pornography in the commission of their crimes.iii Besides stimulating the perpetrator, pornography facilitates child molestation in several ways. For example, pedophiles use pornographic photos to demonstrate to their victims what they want them to do. They also use them to arouse a child or to lower a child's inhibitions and communicate to the unsuspecting child that a particular sexual activity is okay: "This person is enjoying it; so will you."
http://www.protectkids.com/effects/harms...#i
This is as ugly as it gets; in Canada last year...
"The RCMP say a 16-year-old British Columbia girl was drugged and "gang raped" at a weekend rave and photos of the assault were posted to Facebook.
Insp. Derren Lench says the attack has police investigating both the assault and charges related to distributing and possessing child pornography."
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/n...
"PORN AND SEXUAL CRIME...
"In spite of the lack of formal research, though, the FBI's own statistics show that pornography is found at 80 percent of the scenes of violent sex crimes, or in the homes of the perpetrators" (1). Now I think that's kind of tough to ignore."
http://www.fightthenewdrug.org/Science/s...
The following playlist of Expert Testimony covers the effect of the porn industry on the Medical, Social, Criminal and Educational facets of society.
Porn Harms: Expert Testimony and Presentation by Pornography Harms - Learn more at PornHarms.com
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8...
"According to Morality in Media (MIM) president Pat Trueman, it is "a major step forward from an influential country that could have worldwide effects," as the idea is to shield children from explicit material. To help accomplish this, parents and guardians will be able to use a site called Parentport that allows them to complain about websites, products, services, or programming that they believe is not appropriate for children.
"I long for the day that our Internet service providers [in the United States] would agree that porn harms and we have an untreated pandemic of harm that must be addressed," he adds."
And Trueman points out that though a number of U.S. laws prohibit the distribution of obscene pornography on the Internet, they are not being enforced by the federal government. So he believes the country needs a president who will actually carry those measures out.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Defaul...
"Darkening Our Minds: Porn's Impact...
If a person's eye is perpetually exposed to darkness, there comes an inevitable distortion in that person's thinking. It is in this darkening of the mind that pornography makes its leap from an act that is morally repugnant to one that has frightening consequences."
http://joedallas.com/blog/index.php/2012...