Posted on 11/18/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by MisterRepublican
Comparing pornography to heroin, researchers on Thursday called on Congress to finance studies on "porn addiction" and launch a public health campaign about the dangers.
"We're so afraid to talk about sex in our society that we really give carte blanche to the people who are producing this kind of material," said James B. Weaver, a Virginia Tech professor who studies the impact of pornography.
Internet pornography is corrupting children and hooking adults into an addiction that threatens their jobs and families, a panel of anti-porn advocates told the hearing organized by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., chairman of the Commerce subcommittee on science.
Brownback, a father of five, said when he was a boy, the typical kid's exposure was limited to occasional peeks at dirty magazines illicitly obtained by a buddy.
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Lol.
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I suppose it could be outsourced, but I don't know how it would benefit them. Having said that, I'd much rather see 2 nice looking American babes going at it instead of foreign girls. All depends on preference I suppose. /shrug lol
Another nanny state supporter? Clockwork Orange is not the world I want to live in.
I think what you may be referring to, and I believe your choice of words is correct when you say religious "mania". Actually, religiosity can be a symptom of manic depression. Everyone should know, however, that THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION, but is a manifestation of the grandiosity that is a symptom of the manic phase of bipolar disorder. If that is the case of the people you know whose religiosity you assume caused their decline, my guess it was a symptom of a real mental disorder - that it was a SYMPTOM not really the cause of the problem.
you do not have the authority to waive the TOS.
now, who is the idiot?
and, similarly...
could not this "porn addiction" be a similar flaw of a weak mind?
Porn has been around for a hundred years. Ever hear of Playboy Magazine. First published circa 1950. Wasn't exactly 'porn' but folks mas***bated to it.
It's STILL you.
I agree with you on addictions. I can't even fathom in my wildest immagination being addicted to anything. I see it in people all around me, but just don't get it. I've got a father who lights one cigarette with the last. He sleeps no more than two hours in order to smoke four more and take his heart medication. I've got alchoholics and drug addicts too. It makes no frickin sense to me. But then again, not many human behaviors make much sense to me.
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Destruction come in many forms and we all experience one or more. Don't let this one continue in your life.
God Bless
Oh brother! Do you know people whose lives are ruined by their addiction to golf? Or by their addiction to their work whatever it might be?
Religion
Golf
Work
Porn
The first three are not inherently immoral. The last one is.
Porn should be addressed by the government because if left in the hands of free enterprise where there is easy money to be made - society is seriously damaged. I'll guarantee the Founders of our country would favor government intervention. The only people benefitting from the government ignoring the problem is those making money from it. Everyone else loses.
Porn is not free speech. It is violent and abusive speech directed toward children and women primarily. We may balk at the way Islamic men treat their women and children; but here in America many men treat their women like objects too when they view porn. Rapists and serial killers almost always have porn in their homes. Porn objectifies human beings and makes them objects to be used, not loved.
hold on - people can get addicted to GOLF???
that's pathetic.
Giggle.
Oh, and 'yawn'.
LVM
much longer than that.
porn was around as far back as recorded history goes, at least.
King Prout specifically cited "born-again christianity" as an addiction analogous to porn-addiction.
On the otherhand, your assessment:
"THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION, but is a manifestation of the grandiosity that is a symptom of the manic phase of bipolar disorder. If that is the case of the people you know whose religiosity you assume caused their decline, my guess it was a symptom of a real mental disorder - that it was a SYMPTOM not really the cause of the problem."
Spot on.
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