A culture awash in porn: Rebecca Hagelin warns pervasive smut endangering U.S. teenagers

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, May 2, 2005 | Rebecca Hagelin

[1john2 3and4]

I often think of these types of things in those precise terms (pendulum). At the risk of yanking the thread off into a different direction, are you two saying the same thing?

Comes back with a crash doesn't sound too pleasant for the culture that crashes. I'm thinking Rome, which experienced just such a collapse....
vs.

We can only hope and pray this happens. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

[zip]

"decadent eras have been followed by religious eras"

We can only hope and pray this happens.

This is the context of what I hope will happen, not a crash but a religious era taking place of the current era.

[gdani]

Worse, Rector says, sexually active teens are three times more likely than their non-sexually active peers to become depressed and to attempt suicide

Somehow, I don't think depression would have been a problem for me in high school if I were getting enough to be considered "sexually active".

[Aquinasfan]

Look at Bob.

That hurts.

[squarebarb]

I just read a book called Smashed. Pretty sad.

[sageb1]

I wish Rebecca Hagelin had given me some help when I wrote to FRC about a pedophilia website I've been trying to get taken down. All I got was a letter back saying, "The site is disgusting, but we don't have enough resources to help you."

Maybe she could devote some of the money she'll make off her book.

[don'tbedenied]

"I'm guessing you are old enough to remember all the way back to the 90s.

Nah, the 70s.

More drugs, less lite bondage."

That is the line of the year!

My Mom used to tell me about the nuts that went after comic books because of their moral depravity. Movies had a decency code, then of course rock and roll was next.

Republicans can hold the WH and the Congress for a long time unless the Puritans get control.

[MHGinTN]

INteresting read, JH2.

And being immersed, day-in and day-out, in a pornographic culture that encourages experimentation is hurting our teens. The PC advcent has made it so difficult to stand against the explosion of porn industry because to speak against is to 'apply one's personal moral values, and that is off limits in the secularized, liberalized world.' Except, to fail to speak out and oppose the degeneration of OUR Republic is to allow the destruction and accept the toll coming due. It is time to apply a measure of intolerance else we the people (our children actually) will be swept away in the tides of degeneracy made 'acceptable' through the clintonization of America.

[MHGinTN]

INteresting read, JH2.

And being immersed, day-in and day-out, in a pornographic culture that encourages experimentation is hurting our teens. The PC advcent has made it so difficult to stand against the explosion of porn industry because to speak against is to 'apply one's personal moral values, and that is off limits in the secularized, liberalized world.' Except, to fail to speak out and oppose the degeneration of OUR Republic is to allow the destruction and accept the toll coming due. It is time to apply a measure of intolerance else we the people (our children actually) will be swept away in the tides of degeneracy made 'acceptable' through the clintonization of America.

[MHGinTN]

I've been calling ti wholesale prostitution for years now ... never stuck with the press though.

[cryptical]

not a crash but a religious era taking place of the current era.

I'd almost rather see a crash than a return to superstition as governing principle.

[longtermmemmory]

GLSEN has made homosexual porn MANDATORY in many schools.

[annyokie]

I was a teen in the late 70's and the local drive-in theatre showed porn on Saturday nights.

Everything old is new again.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"Hahahaha! Pissant got pinged before me and Dash! That means you've got the bigger problem!"

We all KNOW I have problems.

The other got pulled as a duplicate. So I am answering you here.

[pissant]

I think Owl was referring to me having the problems. But with him, some times its tough to decipher his gibberish. ;o)

[Dumb_Ox]

The physical toll alone is stunning:

How unfortunate that the physical toll is the only toll this author mentions, a habit that has sadly been around for centuries. Even Casanova was so afflicted.

With all the pornophiles here, I'd like to see a "Report Self-Abuse" button should be added.

[pissant]

LOL!

[GunRunner]

If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you got married?

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"With all the pornophiles here, I'd like to see a "Report Self-Abuse" button should be added."

As if the mods are not busy enough. Self abuse is to be enjoyed and not shared with all the others on the forum.