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Is pornography driving men crazy?
Al Jazeera ^ | Julu 2nd 2011 | Naomi Wolf

Posted on 07/02/2011 9:39:42 AM PDT by Cardhu

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To: Cardhu
Human nature has always tended toward evil.

It takes an act of will and divine intervention to resist it.

21 posted on 07/02/2011 10:17:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: seowulf

Pornography is one of many spiritual killers. The Bible says to be careful what we allow our EYES to see and hears to HEAR!


22 posted on 07/02/2011 10:27:33 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: Cardhu

Young boys are interested in pornography first and foremost because they do not understand female anatomy. This is preadolescent curiosity.

It is also a warning sign that boys and girls are in need of chaperoned socialization that neither permits them to gender segregate nor is so filled with other distractions that they cannot socialize. There is no such common system in the US, and certainly not in school or in church, because the children are otherwise preoccupied.

Which explains a lot about gender and relationship problems among adults. Cross gender socialization is essential at a young age.

The next time boys are attracted to pornography is when they are in the throes of adolescence, “all hormones and nerve endings”, where pornography enables what could be called “excessive” masturbation.

Finally, when adult men are married, there are times, from days to decades, when they cannot express sexuality with their spouse, either because she isn’t interested or available, or he isn’t.


23 posted on 07/02/2011 10:29:05 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Cardhu
"Is pornography driving men crazy?"

I dunno. Good question. Pity we can't ask Bin Laden - he had lots - may be that explains his attitude.

24 posted on 07/02/2011 10:30:51 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Cardhu
"Is pornography driving men crazy?"

I dunno. Good question. Pity we can't ask Bin Laden - he had lots - may be that explains his attitude.

25 posted on 07/02/2011 10:30:52 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Cardhu

I know of three marriages that were totally ruined, and porn was at the root of it.


26 posted on 07/02/2011 10:39:21 AM PDT by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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To: Cardhu

Seeing a posting originating from Al Jazeera on FR kinda gives me the creeps —


27 posted on 07/02/2011 10:41:34 AM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: Cardhu

I actually think it is a lot more tintillating for scanty versus showing all the goods. Jennifer L Hewitt in that movie with Signourney Weaver is a good example.


28 posted on 07/02/2011 10:41:48 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: Cardhu

Too bad the writer doesn’t investigate the amount of ADHD drugs that are plowed into the boys and those effects on the hard wiring and eventual sex performance. Women want boys to be calm in the preteen & teen years and then expect them to be dynamos in bed after they marry them. Ya can’t have it both ways ladies. We not lab rats.


29 posted on 07/02/2011 11:05:31 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: Cardhu
We need a really big bureaucracy to go through every picture on the internet and censor them one by one. It's a big job and at the end of it we'll have hundreds of thousands of porn-crazed bureaucrats on our hands, but it's the only way.

Someday we'll have a monument built in Washington to those noble bureaucrats that gave their sanity to protect us from filth.

30 posted on 07/02/2011 11:07:29 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Barack Obama, the Stickless Wonder.)
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To: Cardhu

“Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, they were far more discreet and generally used much better judgment in order to cover their tracks.”

This is just inaccurate in the extreme.

In the past people were far more willing to cover these things up, plus it was much easier to cover things up in the past.

But, even with that said, look at the scandals throughout history. Henry VIII comes to mind, even if he was just in search of a legitimate male heir, he did a great deal of damage. Not just to the several women he had killed, but also to the church in England and think of how many people died as a result of his defiance of the Roman Catholic Church, the church that had awared him “defender of the faith”.

Look at the Kennedys, JFK is one thing, bad enough behaviour there, but look at girl-killing Ted. Does anyone think that any pol would get away with that today?

Clinton got a pass, disgustingly so, but others are having a harder time plying their randy trade today.

On the whole, an improvement.

If you want to be a whore-monger, stay out of elective office, or even appointed office.

Yes, DSK, that means you too.


31 posted on 07/02/2011 11:10:44 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Yossarian
I'm agreeing with you. In discussion men's prayer groups I have been involved with it is obvious that on line porn is a real problem.

I don't care for the author, but I think the science will confirm what she is saying eventually.

32 posted on 07/02/2011 11:20:02 AM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Pornography is one of many spiritual killers.

The biggest of them all is socialism since it endorses all of the others.

33 posted on 07/02/2011 11:50:17 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: diamond6
I know of three marriages that were totally ruined, and porn was at the root of it.

I highly doubt that. Men are very simple creatures. I am quite certain I could ascertain a secondary and more "root" cause to the marriage failures in about 5 minutes of counseling.

34 posted on 07/02/2011 12:14:21 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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Never understood the fascination with pornography. Never been interested in it, never been interested in boobie-bars either. I think it mostly comes down to an aversion to fakeness, just not a fan of blatantly artificial situations.


35 posted on 07/02/2011 12:37:18 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: famousdayandyear
..kinda.. ?

lotta

36 posted on 07/02/2011 1:10:31 PM PDT by tomkat (FØ)
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To: tomkat

I stand corrected!


37 posted on 07/02/2011 1:21:12 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: famousdayandyear
we'll let it go this time . . .
38 posted on 07/02/2011 1:35:58 PM PDT by tomkat (FØ)
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To: tomkat

lika the smoka smileyface


39 posted on 07/02/2011 2:29:37 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: famousdayandyear

feel free to swipe it .. i liberated from somewhere long forgotten, years ago .. would be nice to think the little guy will be carryin’ on after i’m gone .. lol


40 posted on 07/02/2011 2:32:27 PM PDT by tomkat (FØ)
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