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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porn is proof that supply side economics works. like a two-edged sword.
Why do we need to have the federal government involved in this?
Totally nailed it. This is the same as anti-tobacco groups calling for more taxpayer dollars to fight cigarette smoking, when there's already products and services available on the market to help smokers' quit. Don't get me wrong I have a dim view of porn but it's not exactly a pressing issue right now.
A true story!
Oh great...first "crazy" checks...now "porn" checks. Government checks for porn detox...checks for porn withdrawls...checks for bi-porn disfunction...
I can see it now !
Porn ALMOST ruined my life right into an early grave. I'd rather not have men look at that trash. However, men will ALWAYS want to look at naked women and no amount of repeating testimonies of awfulness of abusing porn will stop that.
Alcohol, tobacco, firearm deaths by criminals, politicians have destroyed lives too.
The rise in popularity of homosexual sex is tightly correlated with pornography and drug abuse. That explains the level of support for all three ...
"Here they go again" ping.
Could porn be outsourced?
Clinton can't define what sex is still.
Yes, my addiction to porn has destroyed my life. Its so bad that I can't work, or even think straight, anymore--I just have to watch porn. In fact, just writing about my plight on this blog is my cry for help. I think my condition should be classified as a disease (like obesity) so that I can go on disability until I can get over my addiction (which will certainly take a long, long, long time).
I know what you mean if you know what I mean. It ruined my life too.
I could say exactly the same thing about born-again christianity - that I know people who are being destroyed by their addiction to their religiosity.
Note, however, that I do not say that the religion or its Object are destroying lives - the addiction of certain weak individuals to them are. In the same vein: "porn" destroys no porn consumer: the addiction of certain weak individuals to porn might be.
hey I understand the urge. It's madness.
Golly, it is good that we don't have any pressing issues like national sovereignty or a war against international terrorism to worry about; this absence of life and death issues allows us to handle individual impulse control problems. </sarcasm>
I think that porn is a waste of time and money for those who are tied to it. Keep it away from kids and allow private organisations to deal with those who can't keep their impulses in check. The last thing that we want is the national government regulating the internet; that is the first step to the death of the internet.</rant>
Sounds like a porno movie plot.
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