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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In other words, porn is no more to blame than his ex-girlfriend.
Unless you're Muslim , of course.
Ah... Not sure how that can happen. What is the cause and effect syptoms in that scenario. I don't get it.
Sometimes it doesn't have to be THAT cold...
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).
You sorry tirades are getting more boring and predictable all the time.
You're sooooo pre-Election 2004.
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.
Don't get your hands too sticky.
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.
no, I mean they end up with gangrene because medicine is the devil's work, that kind of "destroyed".
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.
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.
I thought it made the hair on your head fall out!
Isn't that why half of the male population is bald?
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.
Welcome to FR. : )
'Cept it was the Meese Commission... not the US Supreme Court.
Crazy all the same, though. : )
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.
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.
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