Porn: An Unstoppable Force?

Agape Press ^ | 9/17/03

[truthandlife]

I knew that it has grown with the internet but I did not know it has grown that much.

[AppyPappy]

I remember debating a guy who claimed porn was good because they used condoms now.

[wideawake]

The harder number to get to is how many new pornography enthusiasts has the internet created?

Before people could order DVDs online or download it directly, buying pornography often necessitated long trips to seedy parts of town or using catalogs to send away for bulky VHS tapes.

Pornography enthusiasts now are able to buy more pornography more easily and more cheaply.

So a significant part of the boom is the usual suspects buying even more units than they would normally have purchased otherwise.

[BenLurkin]

Animalistic sexuality and disdain for life. Cradle to grave socialism in "a world without borders".

That is the grim future awaiting our planet. We are facing(to paraphrase Churchuill) "A new dark ages, made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science".

[Pukin Dog]

I saw a statistic on Fox yesterday that said 150 new porn films are produced every week in the U.S. alone. I think that battle is over.

[TheBigB]

It's called the Free Market.

[truthandlife]

Ted Bundy, an infamous serial killer, granted an interview (Fatal Addiction)to psychologist James Dobson just before he was executed on January 24, 1989. In that interview, he described the agony of his addiction to pornography. Bundy goes back to his roots, explaining the development of his compulsive behavior. He reveals his addiction to hard-core pornography and how it fueled the terrible crimes he committed.

When Ted Bundy was thirteen years old, he discovered "dirty magazines" in a dump near his home. He was instantly captivated by them. In time, Bundy became more and more addicted to violent images in magazines and videos. He got his kicks from seeing women being tortured and murdered. When he tired of that, there was only one place his addiction could go - from fantasy to reality.

This is an excerpt:

Ted: Before we go any further, it is important to me that people believe what I'm saying. I'm not blaming pornography. I'm not saying it caused me to go out and do certain things. I take full responsibility for all the things that I've done. That's not the question here. The issue is how this kind of literature contributed and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior.

JCD: It fueled your fantasies.

Ted: In the beginning, it fuels this kind of thought process. Then, at a certain time, it is instrumental in crystallizing it, making it into something that is almost a separate entity inside.

JCD: You had gone about as far as you could go in your own fantasy life, with printed material, photos, videos, etc., and then there was the urge to take that step over to a physical event.

Like an addiction, you keep craving something which is harder and gives you a greater sense of excitement, until you reach the point where the pornography only goes so far.

[madprof98]

I wish this were just another sign of the Blue/Red divide in the country, but that's not really the case. in fact, there's a sizable group here that will probably take over this thread with the claim that addiction to porn is either "nobody's business but mine" or else positively beneficial. These are the same people who don't think violent video games and gangsta music affect their children's behavior.

[joesnuffy]

Porn reveals the soul of a nation....
as it destroys the minds of it's youngest citizens
and reveals it's willingness to destroy itself
& the necrotic erotic state of the union

[AppyPappy]

Porn, like all media, influences people. It's the same with the commercials, news, movies, etc. They all have an influence on you.

[evolved_rage]

A couple years ago, I was privy to an internal report for a broadband supplier that estimated that 75-85% of residential throughput was for porno from porno sites. Now, a pervert streaming porno for an hour will use more bits than my week of reading FR and other news sources, but it still seemed like a skin crawling statistic...I'm glad I didn't have to talk to customers...

[wideawake]

Interesting post.

It makes perfect sense. I don't know anyone who is into NASCAR and loves racing magazines, etc. who wouldn't want to get in a race car and take a spin around Darlington if he could.

The people I have known who were into pornography have patronized prostitutes and one has even gone into debt patronizing them.

If Bundy was into violent pornography, it only follows that he would want to act out what he'd been fantasizing about for years.

[wideawake]

There is a free market of ideas as well.

[IncPen]

I wish this were just another sign of the Blue/Red divide in the country, but that's not really the case. in fact, there's a sizable group here that will probably take over this thread with the claim that addiction to porn is either "nobody's business but mine" or else positively beneficial. These are the same people who don't think violent video games and gangsta music affect their children's behavior.

The pro-dopers and the pro-abotionists make the same argument. It's about their 'freedom', don't you know.

Funny how 'freedom' somehow became the 'right to self indulgence', and a Constitutional Right at that.

[TheBigB]

Um, yes, there is. Does that statment have any point or relevance here?

[Truth666]

None of the many ten thousand Landslide customers (identified by credit card) is in jail. None of the abuse stories behind the thousands of children abused on those videos and photos has been investigated.
If "you" can't stop pedophilia, how can "you" stop porn ?

[tioga]

Sin is sin. It grows like a cancer. In what direction one doesn't know. But grow it will. Best to avoid it altogether, like the slippery slope or the addiction, the further you go the harder to get out. Like the quagmire the left drivels on and on about, one is lost in sin. Only way out is to follow the light. Age old story of good vs evil.

[corkoman]

I hate to burst this panic bubble but if you accept the data on the chart then how is it that there is no correlation with some kind of societal cataclism (sp?). If porno was as destructive as has been portrayed in the previous posts, the enormous expansion of this industry over the past 12 years SHOULD be associated with other really bad things.

I observe the US as becoming more conservative and caring and responsible.

Sure bad things happen but...wheres the cataclism?

[Helms]

Harder core porn is already available on Cable, w/Larry Flints named all over it. The push to mainstream it is currently intense. What should be private and kept out of high visibility Is increasingly in our faces.

This new drug with high addictive potential (due to large TV’s and digital format) needs to be regulated and kept in the private sphere.

[mac_truck]

I tend to believe that Ted Bundy was an abberation.

Has there been a corresponding increase in violent crime against women to substantiate any sort of cause and effect with pornography?