November 25th, 2011
Betsy
by Carolyn Moynihan
The New York Times yesterday published a preview of a weekend magazine article called “Teaching Good Sex” — a long and detailed account of how one teacher, with full support from his elite school, is promoting sexual pleasure as a goal for 17-year-olds and even younger teenagers. Read more…
These researchers are probably not members of the Religious Right. They are
probably old-fashioned feminists who worry about the over-sexualization and
exploitation of women.
Popular media’s hypersexualization of women may be worse than you think
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A study by University at Buffalo sociologists has found that the portrayal of women in the popular media over the last several decades has become increasingly sexualized, even “pornified.” The same is not true of the portrayal of men. Read more…
by Mariette Ulrich
In the 1980’s, my hopelessly outdated mom counselled me not to kiss a boy on the first date. I tell my daughters not to kiss (or, for that matter, date) anyone they wouldn’t be prepared to marry. As someone who espouses values possibly more old-fashioned than those held by my pre-sexual-revolution era parents, I found this Mail Online item worthy of note. Read more…
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but still, nice to see some confirmation by someone overtly stating it.
Carolyn Moynihan
A British feminist is sounding the alarm about the effects on teenagers of easy access to pornography, saying that a skewed view of sex is becoming the norm in society and the idea of intimacy is dying. Read more…
December 18th, 2009
Betsy
To put it simply, porn will cause the destruction of the universe! Or just marriage and real, meaningful relationships, but it’s just the start, I tell you!
Patrick F. Fagan, Mercatornet.com
By undermining marriage and family life, by assailing them on the internet, pornography is doing serious harm to young people.
“Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an individual’s concept of the nature of conjugal relations. This, in turn, alters both sexual attitudes and behaviour. It is a major threat to marriage, to family, to children and to individual happiness. In undermining marriage it is one of the factors in undermining social stability.” Read more…
Categories: Chastity, love, Marriage, Pornography, Teenagers Tags: adolescents, dating, Marriage, porn, Pornography, relationships, Teenagers