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Addiction To Porn Destroying Lives, Senate Told.
SFGate.com ^ | November 18, 2004 | Connie Cass

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kansas; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: addiction; brownback; kssenator; kysenator; porn; pornography; pr0n; sambrownback; senatehearing; senatorbrownback; sexualaddiction; upenn; virginiatech
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To: -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-

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61 posted on 11/18/2004 6:47:40 PM PST by cyborg
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To: -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-

basically: yes.

I have learned through bitter experience that it is not possible for an outsider to fix the weak - only the weak, perhaps with the assistance of God, can fix themselves.


62 posted on 11/18/2004 6:48:25 PM PST by King Prout (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: cyborg

You win!


63 posted on 11/18/2004 6:48:39 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Coulter/Ingraham - '08.)
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To: cyborg

I think that you pegged it. The folks who I have known who were consumers of pornography (there are quite a few in our universities) are among the silliest folks I have known. They live in a perpetual state of junior high school mentality. A classmate in undergrad spent a lot of time and money on pornographic magazines and yet lamented that he did not have a girlfriend. I once asked him why he didn't take that time and money and put it into dating a real flesh and blood woman. he did not have an answer and the expression on his face indicated to me that he had never thought along those lines.


64 posted on 11/18/2004 6:49:34 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Half a league, half a league rode the MSM into the valley of obscurity)
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To: cyborg

well, what i'm getting from King prout;s post is people like us are weak. Well, "sucks to be you"


65 posted on 11/18/2004 6:50:08 PM PST by -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-
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To: cyborg

to desire to or have a native tendency to enjoy doing so?

until the day after they die, cy.

faulting men for that is like faulting water for being wet.


66 posted on 11/18/2004 6:51:29 PM PST by King Prout (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: fo0hzy
I agree. But its a grey area... hard to define & regulate. In a perfect world, there would be no need for porn...

Everyone agrees that child pornography shouldn't be tolerated. Even the porn industry supports cracking down on child pornographers and have done somewhat of a good job regulating themselves. I mean, parents (and wives of husbands who view porn) can easily buy NetNanny or any other Internet filter or blocker on the market instead of complaining to Mother Government about it and shredding the 1st Amendment.

Look, porn is like weeds in the yard. You're not going to eradicate it entirely. But you can control it with city ordinances, age checks, politicians using the bully pulpit, etc. Maybe if some chicks would give it up more often to their husbands or boyfriends instead of faking headaches they wouldn't have to look at porn.

67 posted on 11/18/2004 6:52:02 PM PST by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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To: Army Air Corps

yeah exactly! I just don't get it. If a man is in a committed relationship with a woman, then he shouldn't need to look at other women.


68 posted on 11/18/2004 6:52:13 PM PST by cyborg
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To: MisterRepublican

Americans need to quit their addiction to big government first.


69 posted on 11/18/2004 6:52:36 PM PST by Mulder ("The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere and any time"-- Heinlein)
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To: -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-

are you an addict?


70 posted on 11/18/2004 6:52:45 PM PST by King Prout (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-

I hope that's not what he meant :(


71 posted on 11/18/2004 6:53:05 PM PST by cyborg
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To: stacytec
Wonderful, government once again in peoples personal lives. Uncle Sam doesn't need to be involved in your sex life.

yeah, dammit. legalize heroin. legalize crack. legalize cannibalisation. the gummint has no business protecting its citizens from nuttin! damm strate, baby. /trying to think like you.

The government does have a legitimate and well established -- not to mention moral -- interest and obligation in protecting its citizens from commercial affairs that may be damaging, even more so where children and families are concerned.

f*cking DUH!

72 posted on 11/18/2004 6:53:05 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: King Prout

Well if a single has to look at porn, well whatever! But after he's married no way. Why do MARRIED men have to look at porn? that's weird don't you think?


73 posted on 11/18/2004 6:54:09 PM PST by cyborg
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To: King Prout
are you an addict?

you're a closet leftist, though. Here's how I know: someone disagrees with you, and you accuse him. Why don't you ask him if he still beats his wife?

74 posted on 11/18/2004 6:54:40 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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To: cyborg; -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-

it isn't.
what I'm getting from -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-'s posts is that -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=- has a reading-comprehension difficulty.


75 posted on 11/18/2004 6:54:41 PM PST by King Prout (tagline under reconstruction)
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To: Life is brief
Porn is absolutely destroying lives. It's ruining a close friend and his two children.

I hope you're not suggesting that the solution is to turn him in to the government for "processing" and "repair".

My copy of the Constitution doesn't seem to include this as part of the enumerated powers of Big Stupid Government.

Hell, the Senate is fine with a Klansman and a drunken bimbokiller - they ought to have zero credibility with the Normal-American Community.

76 posted on 11/18/2004 6:55:00 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Life is brief
We're going to have many millions of shattered families and lost souls because of the ease of obtaining porn.

"Since 1993, rapes have declined by 60%; attempted rapes by 71.4%; and sexual assaults by 37.5%, according to NCVS figures."

rainn.org: 2000 Crime Stats

77 posted on 11/18/2004 6:55:34 PM PST by Ken H
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To: whoever

If you are struggling with porn, here are some resources to help:

http://www.purelifeministries.org/

http://www.joshharris.com/whatsnew/notevenahint.htm

God bless.


78 posted on 11/18/2004 6:55:41 PM PST by SeasideSparrow
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To: SeasideSparrow; All

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578563682/104-4591674-8776720?v=glance

Every Man's Battle (there's also Every Woman's Battle too)


79 posted on 11/18/2004 6:56:51 PM PST by cyborg
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To: King Prout
here. I found a thread for you. you should read it thoughtfully.
80 posted on 11/18/2004 6:57:55 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
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