Yep....pornography has always been with us, it's just that technology has supercharged it's ability to reach millions in seconds with no effort at all--firehosing itself into mainstream households with a ravenous grip.
The disturbing and insidious fact that it slips into our worlds without even being invited in, starts to make it seem almost mythically evil. Serpent-like.
The final irony is that in combating it, we have to combat our innermost selves.
It's all starting to feel like a Divinely directed morality play, a cosmic test from a fed-up God that maybe says something like:
"Ok, you humans want to have it all ways...you think you're so smart with your technological/scientific advances with no ethical restrictions, your genius inventions to indulge/entertain yourselves endlessly without the burden of restraint.
While you pleasure yourselves in unprecendented ways, at gluttonous levels, in ways that are unraveling the deep connections between you all and you to ME, that cheapen you all--don't come crying to me about how empty you feel inside or how hopeless, or how you find yourselves filled with existential dread, wondering "Isn't there "more" to my life?".
Don't mean to be so presumptous to imagine to speak for God (*lightening* *thunder*) , but this all feels very much like a struggle of the dark and the light inside us all.
Technology definently has changed the equation--and that means we have to open to amending the argument.
Oh yeah, and the hip, cultural icon Howard Stern is like the devil incarnate IMHO.
If the argument is going to be directed toward a political solution, and the situation is as dire as it has been described, then the only effective solution is going to be a federal ban on pornography, and government control of the internet to enforce it.