Addiction To Porn Destroying Lives, Senate Told.

SFGate.com ^ | November 18, 2004 | Connie Cass

[Cult of Personality]

Ted Bundy was a necrophile. As a child he murdered small animals for fun. His murder victims all resembled his first girlfriend who dumped him. It was he who blamed his ex-girlfriend and porn for fueling the murders.

In other words, porn is no more to blame than his ex-girlfriend.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Whereas being religious even to excess is not inherently immoral.

Unless you're Muslim , of course.

[Cobra64]

AMEN!!!!! It has just broke up one of my children's marriage!!!!

Ah... Not sure how that can happen. What is the cause and effect syptoms in that scenario. I don't get it.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Whhat I can't understand is that with all the real-world sex available these days, why anyone not trapped on an Antarctic weather station has to be addicted to porn.

Sometimes it doesn't have to be THAT cold...

[fo0hzy]

...porn is no more to blame than his ex-girlfriend.

...and greed is no more to blame for Al Capone.

Jeffrey Dahmer is resting peacfully...

[Cobra64]

hold on - people can get addicted to GOLF??? that's pathetic.

I'm addicted to loading and re-loading 12 ga, .357, .38, .9mm ... and Hoppe's Number 9.

In fact, Number 9 sure beats Channel No. 5 for my wife and my anniversary present (32 years BTW).

[Palladin]

You sorry tirades are getting more boring and predictable all the time.

You're sooooo pre-Election 2004.

[King Prout]

never liked the smell of Hoppe's - I prefer BreakFree CLP.

I can condone "addiction" to reloading - that's something useful, important, and good for the whole family.

reloading's a skill I'm going to have to learn, sooner or later.

my "addictions" at the moment (aside from FR) are tinkering with my AK and learning more of the mysteries of woodworking.

[Palladin]

Don't get your hands too sticky.

[TaxRelief]

...I know people who are being destroyed by their addiction to their religiosity.

Define "destroyed".

Do you mean they won't party anymore; won't joke about cheating; won't sleep around; won't say homosexuality is ok; don't pay enough attention to their friends and families; are giving up great jobs to go on missions; or are spending too much time helping the poor or prison inmates?

This is very interesting.

[King Prout]

no, I mean they end up with gangrene because medicine is the devil's work, that kind of "destroyed".

[TChris]

...to those who think pornography is as harmless as a the McDonald's dollar menu...

It's like any other addiction. Some may be, whether by psychological or physiological differences, predisposed to addiction to one thing or another. Others are unaffected, and probably can't understand why there's such a fuss.

But for someone to casually dismiss the existance of an addiction because it doesn't affect them is either naive or narcissistic.

[King Prout]

a more elaborate answer, by item:

they won't party anymore; - no. they don't go out, at all, except to church as many times per week as there are services.

won't joke about cheating; - no. they lose their senses of humor entirely.

won't sleep around; - no. they often practice serial bigamy.

won't say homosexuality is ok; - irrelevant: *I* won't say "homosexuality is ok". They, on the other hand, might go out fag-bashing, because "God Hates Fags"

don't pay enough attention to their friends and families; - try: disowns them utterly if they don't jump into the cult with them. also: deny their kids medical treatment because prayer is supposed to do the job. etc...

are giving up great jobs to go on missions; - try instead: go flat broke and homeless because they just cannot work with "unbelievers" without making pains in the butt of themselves. also: squander their savings giving to huckster televangelists. also: give up their worldly possessions because they are convinced their preacher has the faxline to God and has proclaimed that Tuesday is the Day of Judgement. etc ad infinitum.

or are spending too much time helping the poor or prison inmates? - no. are spending too much time fast-tracking to the morgue to bother with such things.

I do hope this is satisfactorily clear, as this is the final post I shall make on this thread.

[plan2succeed.org]

Sadly, libraries are crimes scenes. Evidence of porn should include whether the library refuses to follow CIPA and US Supreme Court law.

Real people really get raped by people attracted to the porn in libraries that the ALA (American Library Association) endorses by refusing to comply with CIPA and the US Supreme Court. For example, an 8 year old was raped in a Philadelphia public library by a repeat library offender. The local papers sadly record the permanant damage this has done to the girl and the ruin brought upon the family. (Anyone can help the girl and her family - Send checks and donations to Asian Bank -- The Support Fund, 1008 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19107 -- see Kindness of Strangers at http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-04-08/cb2.shtml.)

People who make light of these sad cases are truly cold hearted. The ALA makes light of this. As Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said, "the public is beginning to realize 'they don't just have to take it.'" Halleluyah! Well www.plan2succeed.org is not taking it anymore either, and we are documenting other people in other communities who are not taking it anymore either. Let's roll, people. Get involved, somehow, somewhere.

[B4Ranch]

I thought it made the hair on your head fall out!

Isn't that why half of the male population is bald?

[Calico Cat]

I can't recall who stated this, but I agreed with it: the mass merchandising of sex demoted Eros from a god to a buffoon. I'd separate the massive explosion in the availability of porn from what I'd consider 'erotica'. Porn dehumanizes; its profiteers are cynical and, let's face it--its 'actors' are, for the most part, drug-addicted, stupid scuzzballs. I don't want to see them bump uglies. It's a rather nauseating combination of Puritanism--ooh, it's so DIRTY--with an extremely juvenile vision of personal liberty.

But then, I'm not a guy.

[Trinity_Tx]

Welcome to FR. : )

[Trinity_Tx]

'Cept it was the Meese Commission... not the US Supreme Court.

Crazy all the same, though. : )

[tacticalogic]

they would have the sense to see the priorities aright, were they alive and functioning as founders or re - founders today, the era of borderless communication.

They would indeed. Priority 1 - maintain the integrity of the repbulic by keeping the federal government within the boundaries of it's enumarated powers, as those powers were understood and intended by the representatives of the States that granted them, and do not accept creative semantics as a suitable substitute for the process of public debate, vote, and ratification of amendment.

[blackdog]

No, actually the supremes had a parallel effort going on as well. I was fairly young during the tenure of Ed Meese. I remember my parents, who were very conservative, just hated that guy. My dad said he was a little man who shouldn't be trusted.