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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no, I am not a "closet leftist", nor am I accusing -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=- of being an addict.
I am asking a question in response to a post which makes no sense in relation to the denotation of what I have posted, UNLESS -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=- is an addict.
I suspect, however, that the case is that -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=- has failed to read for comprehension.
Your posts indicate that there is a fair amount of that going around.
Slow down, and re-read each one of my posts here, every single word, and then seek to comprehend what I have actually stated.
I had a friend that tried to explain on FR as you have been doing. Her family was destroyed yet she was ridiculed by other posters. The ridicule had a devastating effect on her so that she quit posting for a long while.
So, it comes to .......no one understands until they have seen the destruction to a family and then those addicted will blame other causes. Yet - the destruction has happened.
This is idiocy to you?"
You originally made analogous the affliction of "addiction" at post #35 as being the result of "born-again christianity" -- i.e., dedication to the Gospel of Jesus Christ -- to that of porn-addiction.
Despite your questionable and debatable account of what may or may not be an actual case history, I stand by my original assessment of your opinion -- it's STILL "idiocy."
How are you posting? You did not sign up until tomorrow 11/19/04.
When this guy talked about the nudie mags, I refered to the women therein as his "paper women." Maybe it is because I have a sense of thrift via my Scottish genes or maybe it is my preference for three-dimensional women that kept me from being a porno guy. I would much rather have the touch of a woman's warm hand than a stack of 2-dimensional gals.
this sounds like some freako s & m stuff. oh, man!
We're afraid to talk about it... so that helps with the presentation of it... huh?
Wow paper woman??? That's really desperate.
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.
I haven't seen it among Catholics, Episcopalians, etc... only among Southern Baptists.
I try to make accurate statements.
You call this "idiocy"?
FR posting guidelines preclude an accurate assessment of you.
I don't understand addiction, to anything, period.
but I do know that it happens.
I have not seen evidence that porn is addictive.
*shrugs*
Why don't some people just stop drinking? It's not that difficult... to someone who isn't an alcoholic. Why don't smokers just stop smoking? It's not that difficult... if you aren't addicted to nicotine.
What they're bringing to the attention of Congress, is that people can get addicted to the stuff. When you're addicted, it is difficult to stop.
Yeah, some people hate it when I use that phrase. To me, that is what they are - they exist only in an airbrush fantasy land rendered in the medium of paper or, in the case of the internet, electronic impulses. As for what you said about single guys vs. married guys viewing porn, I do agree. I have office mates who are married an they openly talk about the porn sites that they have bookmarked in their computers. My reaction is "WTF!?!" These guys have real women who love them and they still behave like a pair of giddy high school boys when it comes to porn.
God fearing people know, or certainly ought to know, that viewing porn is a serious sin. I also agree that there are people who are addicted to porn and it can ruin lives. I don't think that the government should do anything to stop porn or the people looking at it. But I suppose the government can warn people that it can be addictive.
"What 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."
Porn is used by people who have trouble being intimate with a real human being. Someone above said he had no use for it because he'd rather be holding the real hand of a woman - he understands true intimacy.
People who are addicted will do or say anything to defend their addiction.
Maybe, but that is his problem to deal with, not the government's. We could say the same thing about alcohol, food, gambling, TV, video games, or any pastime. Your friend should seek privately funded counseling.
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