Posted on 11/19/2005 3:23:43 PM PST by Melissa 24
> Ummm beer & corn flakes
& porn ;-)
They're the same perverts on Madison Avenue who think all women should look like 14-year-old boys.
Heh. My sister works for a firm that advertises for pharmaceutical companies on Madison Avenue. She seems to like her boys a bit older. =)
Will try again to stop on Monday. No one in my family knows I've restarted. I don't have the heart to disappoint them.
Wish me luck! Since I live in the Peoples Republic of Maryland with a high cigarette tax, every time I buy a pack I'm making a donation to the democrats. That should be reason enough to quite!
Good luck Lizma.
I send you positive thoughts.
Yeah I've heard it's hard but I think that for myself and the kiddie I think I'll do it. Good luck on trying again, (I've been told that we all slip once in a while)
England is reaping what it's society has sown. It would be so in the US were it not for people who have at least a moral base line from which they live their lives usually connected to their religious faith. In the case of Europe, they have very precious little influance from religious faith except the religion of murder known as radical muslim.
Pornography is the celebration of selfishness.
If we make porn common and normal, women will no longer get paid thousands of dollars a night. Supply and Demand. It takes no talent to be a female porn star, and you're only getting paid because most women have too much class to do what you are doing.
The more women enter the field, the less any of them will make.
Not to be too crass, but I imagine prostitution is the same way. I know HBO has some series about the "rabbit ranch" or something like that where women get paid thousands of dollars a night to have sex with men who come from other states.
But if prostitution was legal everywhere, I'm sure there'd be plenty of illegals willing to undercut the going rate, and "good women" wouldn't be tempted by the exhorbitant money. I guess this is the same argument used by people who want to legalize drugs.
I'm not arguing we SHOULD legalize stuff, just saying that people already IN the business probably don't want the stigma reduced.
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You mean the same one's who design women's clothing? Especially bathing suits.
You know, she was approached by some TV producers who wanted her to host a "Who Wants to Be a Porn Star" type show, similar to the premise of American Idol. She was appalled by the idea, and said she didn't want to influence girls to choose her career.
How sad is it when the porn star has more sense than the TV producers?
Barney Frank's role model as well, wasn't she?
"You know, she was approached by some TV producers who wanted her to host a "Who Wants to Be a Porn Star" type show, similar to the premise of American Idol. She was appalled by the idea, and said she didn't want to influence girls to choose her career.
How sad is it when the porn star has more sense than the TV producers?"
If she's the one I'm thinking of, she IS doing it. For the Playboy channel. Saw a commercial for it while watching SpikeTV at about 2 in the morning.
Just did a google search, and you are correct. Too bad -- I thought she had a teensy bit of sense!
"England is reaping what it's society has sown. It would be so in the US were it not for people who have at least a moral base line from which they live their lives usually connected to their religious faith."
Ha ha! You really think this is something that the US has 'avoided' but us heathen Brits have not? Sounds like you're right in the target audience for this book (which, incidently, is primarily focused on the US, although obviously the Sunday Times has highlighted the parts relating to the UK as being more relevant to the readership).
Have a look at Pamela Paul's website:
http://www.pamelapaul.com/index.php?p=1
"PORNIFIED shows why it's important for all Americans - those who look at pornography and those who do not - to understand how porn has changed and what we need to do about it."
And a couple more articles here:
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/177/story_17736_1.html
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=8/22/2005
Ha ha! NO! As a matter of fact I see the US as terrible in the whole thing. Making mounds of the crap, destroying lives in the process, wreaking havoc amongst society, it has just not overcome the US as it seems to have overcome all of Europe. So, stop being so insulted at the obvious you wern't called anything. There are more people in the US that stand against porn as acceptable than in Europe and England...or can you prove me wrong? Now, it may be a matter of rote numbers of population but my assertion of the church being of low influence in England and Europe is accurate and it at least has influence in the states where the battle goes on and in many cases is lost for people of faith in the courts rooms which is of a more recent event than people are willing to admit.
If it is such that the number of people who stand against porn in England is high I'll admit being wrong in approach. There has only been one instance where I have seen the influence of porn having an affect here in the states in a tawdry way as to be "normalized' and that is a screwy idiotic class in California where they have a course on being a whore.
Sex sells the world over, no nation is above the other but some have social acceptability factors higher than others...and in this, you reap what you sow.
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