Battle Brews As Porn Moves Into Mainstream

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Battle Brews As Porn Moves Into Mainstream

NEW YORK - The industry’s VIPs mingle at political galas and Super Bowl parties. Their product is available on cell phones, podcasts, and particularly the Internet — there it’s an attraction like no other, patronized by tens of millions of Americans.

It’s pornography. And if you’re a consumer, John Harmer thinks you’re damaging your brain.

Harmer is part of a cadre of anti-porn activists seeking new tactics to fight an unprecedented deluge of porn which they see as wrecking countless marriages and warping human sexuality. They are urging federal prosecutors to pursue more obscenity cases and raising funds for high-tech brain research that they hope will fuel lawsuits against porn magnates.

“We don’t think it’s a lost cause,” said Harmer, a Utah-based auto executive and former politician who’s been fighting porn for 40 years.

“It’s the most profitable industry in the world,” he said. “But I’m convinced we’ll demonstrate in the not-too-distant future the actual physical harm that pornography causes and hold them financially accountable. That could be the straw that breaks their back.”

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[Vatican2Rocks]

I had a couple of thoughts while reading this article:

1. The article suggests that men have no problem with this…while the women do…Question: are the women jealous?
2. at the end of the article, the ‘sex addicts’ were asked, would you want to see your wife or daughter in pornagraphy…the answer was no.
   Question: is it because these men find the wife or daughter unattractive…or is it that the men are jealous of the attention the wife or daughter would get from other men by being in porn?
   in other words is it a numbers game/competition for them. or is it a sense of entitlement that they feel they have a privielge to enjoy and so feel like they have more…ie keeping track of points for a game or competition.

I have to ask these questions because I really don’t see anything wrong with the human body. Of course, I, like most people, prefer beauty to ugliness. Which is why i wonder if jealousy and competition is the real issue.

 

[a_cermak]

I don’t watch porn. But I see nothing wrong with anyone else doing so. It’s obviously a very popular product. And many women make a good living performing in it.

 

[JeffGuidry]

Porn is corrosive, in that it degrades the normal human desire for connection with someone of the opposite sex and renders the sex act as a merely physical conjugation rather than the spiritual joining of two brought together by God as it was meant to be.

To simply say “there’s nothing wrong with the human body” is to leave yourself open to objectifying the physical aspects of humans and ignoring the spiritual. I would suppose that husbands uneasy with their wives or daughters doing porn subconciously understand that they are using these strangers in an improper way, and that they would not want other men to misuse those that they love in the same way.

 

[Liberalsaved]

I can think of a lot of toehr things, all a lot more readily available to people of all ages and walks of life, that risk damaging your brain more than porn. Here I am thinking of the 90% trash content of television.

 

[matt1985]

I do not believe that the right to look at porn is guaranteed under the constitution. Sex doesn’t count as speech in my book. States should have the power to decide if it is porn should be available with in their boundaries. I think the proliferation of porn will have a devastating impact on society in the long run. Porn, along with gay marriage and abortion destroys families. I don’t have a problem with the government imposing more decency standards on the internet and on cable TV. Nip/Tuck is just filthy. It shouldn’t be available to minors.

 

[Vatican2Rocks]

matt1985:

I do not believe that the right to look at porn is guaranteed under the constitution. .

that’s a pretty good argument. I like it. hopefully it will be pursued legally.

Additionally, you hit on an important aspect about men…they tend to feel ‘entitled’ to all kinds of sexual privileges. i think your argument is a good starting place to say…men should not feel entitled to view porn or to have non marital sex.

furthermore, men should not be encouraged and praised for degrading women and treating them disrespectfully. men should not be excused when they sexually assault women. men should discourage each other from pursuing non marital sex.

Rather men should be encouraging each other to remain chaste throughout their life. like the rest of us mere mortals.

 

[Mijoy2]

JeffGuidry:

Porn is corrosive, in that it degrades the normal human desire for connection with someone of the opposite sex and renders the sex act as a merely physical conjugation rather than the spiritual joining of two brought together by God as it was meant to be.

To simply say “there’s nothing wrong with the human body” is to leave yourself open to objectifying the physical aspects of humans and ignoring the spiritual. I would suppose that husbands uneasy with their wives or daughters doing porn subconciously understand that they are using these strangers in an improper way, and that they would not want other men to misuse those that they love in the same way.

So true. I’ve witnessed many men who have daughters in thier teens and twenties share emails containing pictures of women just this age either nude or engaging in pornographic acts with other men, joking and commenting in an approving manner. Yet the idea that these women are someone elses daughter never seems to cross thier mind.

Pornography (and in my opinion many, if not most, of the most popular television shows fit this term) is terribly destructive to our society. What waters and feeds this horrific weed is the casuality associated with it.

I believe that over the last 30-40 years it has been a case of envelope pushing. What very few seem to recognize is that the envelope has fallen off the cliff into the sewer a long time ago.

It’s truly a silent killer. Killer of self, killer of loved ones, killer of relationships.

 

[Mijoy2]

Vatican2Rocks!:

I had a couple of thoughts while reading this article:

1. The article suggests that men have no problem with this…while the women do…Question: are the women jealous?
2. at the end of the article, the ‘sex addicts’ were asked, would you want to see your wife or daughter in pornagraphy…the answer was no.
   Question: is it because these men find the wife or daughter unattractive…or is it that the men are jealous of the attention the wife or daughter would get from other men by being in porn?
   in other words is it a numbers game/competition for them. or is it a sense of entitlement that they feel they have a privielge to enjoy and so feel like they have more…ie keeping track of points for a game or competition.

I have to ask these questions because I really don’t see anything wrong with the human body. Of course, I, like most people, prefer beauty to ugliness. Which is why i wonder if jealousy and competition is the real issue.

amazing. what insight.

 

[Ruthmary]

Mijoy2:

amazing. what insight.

I’m sure that God believes the human body to be good in that He created the human body and when finished declared that creation to be very good. Yet He gave man limitations on what He could do with that body.

Do you think that Jesus may have had some insight when He said that to even look at a woman with lust on your mind is a sin?

 

[Mijoy2]

Ruthmary:

I’m sure that God believes the human body to be good in that He created the human body and when finished declared that creation to be very good. Yet He gave man limitations on what He could do with that body.

Do you think that Jesus may have had some insight when He said that to even look at a woman with lust on your mind is a sin?

Ruthmary, I was being factitious. If I posted what I was really thinking at the time I’d have been suspended from the forums.

 

[jc-servant]

I had a college professor who did his thesis on porn and how the line of what is “mainstream” and what is “deviant” keeps moving. He did a study over many decades that showed as society accepted more and more things as “mainstream” such as S & M, etc then the fringe people had to go farther over the edge to get their thrills. I think we can see this by just looking around at what is now in music videos and on regular TV shows that people in the 1960’s would have had to travel to a back room of an “adult” store in a seedy neighborhood to see. I don’t think things have improved.

I am disappointed that the current administration has not improved the prosecution rate on pornographers or changed the laws. I have a real problem with those types of emails just popping into anyone’s mail box. They could pursue cases against the companies that operate out of our country even if that is not all of them.

 

[beckers]

You should hear Tim Staples talk about what porn has done to our society.

I for one ,as a women, am offended deeply by porn. I saw Savannah (a huge porn star) on the WE channel on “the secret lives of women” show. I could not believe that a woman thought she had the power when it comes to porn. She may think that she is gaining power and such but when it comes down to it she has sold her body for money. She is using her body to cause sexual releases in herself and other watching the tape outside of a monogamist relationship. She is making it harder for us women who respect are bodies as temples to find loving and respectful men. Men believe that women should act like these women and do the things that these women do in porn. I know that I will not be able to live up to those exceptions and therefore would be “failing” in a man’s eyes to what turns him on sexual. Porn turns both partners into selfish sexual partners. Sex becomes all about the “ me me me” release instead of the “we” release and connection that sex is suppose to be for.

The devil is slowly and successful starting to break down the things that hold us together as a society and PORN is a perfect example of that…