Ending child pornography is as much a matter of vigorously prosecuting those who distribute adult pornography as it is a matter of prosecuting child pornographers. Presidential candidates should pledge to initiate adult pornography criminal cases and fund research into the adult-child pornography link. Read more…
By David Amsden
For Jonathan—an attractive, Ivy League– educated musician and adjunct professor—it all started a couple of years ago, when he was working as a temp in the sleek offices of a Madison Avenue ad agency. There he was, seated at his desk, half-heartedly going over pitches for new accounts, when a colleague tapped him on the shoulder. Read more…
By Naomi Wolf
At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways. If we did not limit pornography, she argued—before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility—most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
While congratulating the Department of Justice on a recent child porn bust, one anti-porn crusader argues investigators need to ascertain the roots of suspects’ desire for child porn. Read more…
This is an older article I thought I’d repost since the topic has been kicking around here quite a bit lately.
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D.
As the author of a book called Smart Sex, I have become an expert on many forms of Dumb Sex. One of the weirdest to come to my attention is pornography addiction. I know, I know, we all have First Amendment Right to view just about anything we want, as much as we want, any time we want. But that doesn’t mean that every legal activity we choose is intelligent. If you’d rather view pornography than have a relationship with a real person, you’ve got a personal problem. And if you’ve got a nation full of young men mesmerized by porn videos, sex will become a spectator sport. That’s gotta hurt the birth rate. And it’s hard to believe its ultimately as much fun or as satisfying as the Real Thing. Read more…
I personally have seen three marriages destroyed by porn addiction. This stuff is never innocent. It is addictive; it does mess with your mind. It’s destructive.
by Marcia Segelstein
Last week radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham told a story of traveling by train from Washington, DC, to New York with her young daughter. Walking up the aisle to get a snack, the little girl pointed to the computer screen of a man sitting two rows ahead of them. “Why are those people swimming naked, Mommy,” she asked. It turns out that their fellow passenger was watching “full blown porn,” as Ingraham described it, in easy view of anyone who happened to be sitting nearby or walking past. How, she wondered, have we reached this point? Read more…
This doesn’t surprise me:
BOSTON (Reuters) – Men who pay for sex are more likely than men who do not pay for sex to commit a variety of offenses including violent crimes against women, according to research conducted in the Boston area. Read more…
The last paragraph here is really distressing. I wish I hadn’t read it. The scenarios are either condoning, encouraging, or mocking child sex abuse. Whichever way, how did this magazine get away with it with no backlash? How is this okay in ANYONE’s book?
by Marcia Segelstein
Sunday Morningrecently profiled the grandfather of porn, Hugh Hefner. The piece, called “Hefner at 84: Still a Playboy, Activist, Rebel,” was, as you can probably guess from the title, what’s called in the business a “puff piece.” This wasn’t a hard look at the cultural chaos Hefner helped to spread, or the pornography industry he helped spawn. Nor was there a hint of how sad and pathetic Hugh Hefner looks in his signature silk robe, giving a grand tour of the Playboy Mansion as an old man. Read more…
British Prime Minister David Cameron has taken a lead in the battle against the pornification of culture and the sexualisation of children. A review he commissioned has come up with recommendations that would give more weight to parents’ concerns and encourage retailers and television and music executives to protect children from sexual images. Read more…
This is the sort of thing that causes teen sex. If sex ed does do any good, this stuff undoes it. If we want to lower teen pregnancy and abortion, we should be fighting against horrible stuff like this pushed on teenagers.
by Charlie Butts and Bill Bumpas
MTV’s new show Skins may be violating federal law. Whether it is or not, several advertisers are abandoning ship. Read more…
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