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Does Porn ‘Rewire the Brain’?
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/5/11 | Christopher Shea

Posted on 07/30/2011 7:07:24 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

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To: Recovering_Democrat

Giggity;

Gimme a break; another men = bad; women = good article; revamped for the times.


21 posted on 07/30/2011 8:07:55 PM PDT by correctthought ("Obamunism is a temporary setback on the road to freedom" - Liberty Prime)
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To: Chickensoup
Sad to see a couple with a porn user, ususally male in the fam. Guy usually has an attractive wife but wont touch her. Rather masturbate to pictures than love with his little wife.
The women are devistated, and the men are compulsive.
Heartbreaking.
Takes a lot of work to change that marriage.

Sounds like snips from a letter to Dear Abbey.

22 posted on 07/30/2011 8:13:49 PM PDT by bigheadfred ("I consulted all the sages I could find in yellow pages but there aren't many of them")
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Reading CNN blogs, like picking your nose, rewires your brain: it makes you stupid.

FRiends don't let FRiends read CNN blogs.

23 posted on 07/30/2011 8:20:35 PM PDT by FredZarguna (If being married doesn't rewire your brain, you're probably married to Naomi. Good Luck.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
This has spillover effects in the real world, as the men lose interest in their human romantic partners—or demand that the women reproduce the extreme behavior the men see on their TVs or computer monitors.

Well that's good - thank God it's not that feminism has turned American women into hypocritical, abusive bitches that no self-respecting, decent, warmhearted, supportive and loving man wants anything to do with.

24 posted on 07/30/2011 8:55:10 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: CharlyFord
"hardwired for sex"

One of the main tenets of hard-line feminism is that men are taught to like to look at woman in a sexual way. According to the rad feminists, who like all leftists believe in the blank slate theory, if males weren't weren't given access to to lurid materials, they wouldn't think of females in sexual ways. It's all bunk of course, as you have stated we are hard-wired for sex. And men are hard-wired to look at women in a sexual way....Helen Thomas, Janet Reno etal excepted. No amount of leftist, rad-feminist attempted brainwashing will change that.

25 posted on 07/30/2011 8:55:25 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Chickensoup

If you see these couples get me their address, I believe the women could use a good shoulder to lean on and tell their story.


26 posted on 07/30/2011 8:59:42 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Recovering_Democrat
As men spend more time with their brain being deprived of blood due to demands elsewhere their brain probably does rewire to deal with the being the secondary decision making organ.
28 posted on 07/30/2011 9:20:27 PM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I am pretty sure it is ALWAYS men that have a problem of some sort according to the enlightened feminists.

If they want to be married to one faithful woman, and provide for her and the children, then that man is a patriarchal hetero-normative dinosaur.

If a man wants to avoid the craziness of dating women in the modern world and all the costs and pitfalls associated, then he is a perpetual child with impulse control issues.

Whatever a man chooses, there will be a woman somewhere that will complain about it.


29 posted on 07/30/2011 10:07:19 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Oh, oh - here come those nasty males again!

We just can’t do anything right these days...


30 posted on 07/30/2011 10:11:01 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Pornography is an illusion. It is sexual hedonism and has an infinitesimal bearing reality. The beauty and sensation that it capitalizes on is fleeting. This illusion diverts men from learning how to develop a permanent relationship.


31 posted on 07/30/2011 10:43:30 PM PDT by conservativeimage (I'll be civil when the government stops crushing my balls.)
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To: Talisker

Amen!


32 posted on 07/30/2011 11:27:40 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: conservativeimage.com

If anything, abundant free porno has jaded the average male to the point where sex is viewed as a mechanical means to an end. Relationships have been nuked between men and women the more they have tried to out notch each other in the bed room. Hedonism and amoralism rule supreme with the top selling Halloween costumes for boys and girls being the “pimp” and “whore” get up. Our society has succeeded in imbibing in sexuality 24/7 to the point where it will cause the inability for people to actually have a relationship. This next generation coming up is already damaged goods, feels like we are living a bad sci-fi or Brave New World life.


33 posted on 07/30/2011 11:45:38 PM PDT by Gen-X-Dad
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Hard to find any rational thought on the subject. I do find the irony humorous. The same lefties that insisted pornographers had the liberty to produce their “art” or create their “speech” want us to now believe they agree with Billy Graham that it is bad for society?

What next? Guns aren’t evil? Taxes are? I mean the possibilities are impressive (but I ain’t holdin my breath).


34 posted on 07/31/2011 12:02:28 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I will respectfully disagree, RD.

During my last pregnancy, I was consumed with testosterone overload as my body built my second son. Had rushes of hormones so intense, I could feel them pumping through my veins. Along with those rushes came surges of fearlessness and power.

It completely changed me.

In matters of romance, went from a crockpot to a microwave (if you get my drift). Craved it all the time (which left my husband quite pleased). Experienced amazing clarity of thought and focus so intense my other children had to tug at my arm to get my attention. Couldn't stand to be around my girlfriends, because they chatted about things while I had already arrived at the answer and wanted to move on.

Literally, I saw the world through a man's eyes.

While by no means scientific, my experience taught me that men are already hardwired to want it all the time. Porn doesn't do anything except provide an outlet for their natural instincts.

The porn isn't the problem in relationships; lack of communication, lack of respect, and failure to recognize signs of affection are the problem. Fix those, bring God in, and the porn hits the trash bin.

Doesn't surprise me at all, though, that feminists are having a tough time competing with porn or blaming porn. Deep down, real men want to be treated like men, and they are drawn to women who act like women...not like men.

35 posted on 07/31/2011 12:13:54 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: spodefly

Which is why real men typically chose fine, conservative women, and leave the sissified metrosexuals to pick over the feminists.


36 posted on 07/31/2011 12:16:43 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Reading this article will make you go blind.


37 posted on 07/31/2011 12:18:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Gore Lauds Romney on Climate Position; 0bamaCare was based on RomneyCare.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

One thing certain: everytime I think ‘bout FreeRepublic and I get sexually exited.

Is it just me?


38 posted on 07/31/2011 12:21:41 AM PDT by raygun (http://bastiat.org/en/the_law DOT html)
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To: TheWriterTX
because they chatted about things while I had already arrived at the answer and wanted to move on.

Just read your post to my wife seated in the sofa next to me, reading.

Without looking up, she said, Hmmm, sounds familiar. LOL.

39 posted on 07/31/2011 12:28:38 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: going hot
LOL!

It was exasperating. A few times I wanted to remark, "Make your darn point already! Next!" Couldn't take the haggling over tiny details.

It also explained a lot about my husband. Definitely improved our communication (which was already fairly strong to begin with).

Now, when he's in "the zone" doing something, I wait until we've made eye contact before I start talking. That way, I know I've got his attention.

40 posted on 07/31/2011 12:45:15 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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