Posted on 01/27/2022 11:20:56 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Golly gosh, you learn something new every day about the IVF industry. And you thought it was just about gurgling, picture-perfect infants.
IVF porn is one of those sordid things that everyone knows about but no one has the stomach to talk about. Last year’s “Private Life”, a highly-praised Netflix film about a middle-aged couple going through IVF, is typical. Equipped with a cup, the exasperated husband enters a cubicle where a wall-mounted screen is playing hard-core porn. It’s part of the fertility furniture.
Back in 2010, a British health think tank, 2020Health published a brief report, Who Said Pornography was Acceptable in the Workplace? It found that one-third of government-run IVF clinics supplied pornography to male clients. The report’s author, Julia Manning, complained that this material fostered an “adultery of the mind”. She wrote:
Pornography strips women of full human status and reduces them to sex objects. It gives permission to its consumers to treat women as they are treated in porn. And the reality of porn today is that it increasingly uses younger girls and is more violent and extreme…
No reference has been made to the humiliation for the staff, the implied sanctioning of pornography in the workplace, the fostering of unhealthy attitudes towards the opposite sex, the encouragement of ‘adultery of the mind’, and the impact of the addictive nature of porn…
Furthermore, it is demeaning for the employees of the clinics:
“Seventy-seven per cent of the NHS workforce is female and they should never have to work in an environment that endorses pornography.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Alan Thornhill, a well-known IVF specialist, ridiculed Ms Manning’s “disturbing” ignorance and dismissed her concerns about the effects on employees. Pornography, along with other embarrassing subjects, “comes with the territory”, he sneered in BioNews…
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No it’s not, this is a minor concern for reasonable people. If prudery attracts you, enjoy it. Virtue signaling is not exclusive to the Left.
Talk to Elon Musk. (Father of many kids!) Even he laments the West’s low birth rate.
As conservatives it’s worth lamenting the degradation of marriage, gender, and reproduction and life formation. Yes. That’s the Left’s forefront and it leads to all the other problems we are facing right now.
“How Gaming & Porn Addiction are ruining a Generation”
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