[wagglebee]

For unless it's "child pornography," TV dramas and news programs never use the word "pornography." No news or drama programs ever describe the media itselfas causing copy-cat crime and sado-sexual violence.

And they never will as long as they are profiting from it.

[wagglebee]

Moral absolutes ping.

[Chickensoup]

What more can be said. She hit the nail right on the head.

[Strategerist]

Naturally "Prime Time" makes no connection between sex crimes and their own fare – such as "Desperate Housewives" – entertaining the public with adultery, drug use, prostitution and mom's sex with teenage boys. "CSI" on CBS, NBC's "Law & Order," and "Sex and the City" are now inseparable from the "news" of dog kennels and Dr. Phil's search for child pornographers as we are driven into the pornographic sewer of thematic coming-of-age adventures.

There were plenty of sex crimes (but likely much more of them unreported) and actually more open prostitution before TV ever existed.

Of course a lot of the nonsense in articles like this is based on a mythical sanitized past that we've since fallen from, that never really existed in the first place.

[BipolarBob]

Pornography is like a drug. Very destructive to the user and all in contact with the user. Pornography does not always lead to criminal behavior, but increases the chances of it. YMMV.

[Boazo]

Excellent

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Naturally "Prime Time" makes no connection between sex crimes and their own fare – such as "Desperate Housewives"

Ted Bundy said that reading cheap detective magazines gave him the ideas he had about capturing and killing young women. I don't know what percentage of the population can be influenced like Ted but I suspect that pornography especially the violent type affects many criminal minds like Ted Bundy's.

[P.O.E.]

If TV does not affect behavior, then why all the millions spent on commercials?

[Tax-chick]

I think she has the Emperor Titus mixed up with Tiberius. And is "hominoid" even a word? We have "humanoid" and "hominid," but what's with this new one?

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

ABSOLUTELY MUST READ!!!

Even if you don't read anything else I ping out to you for two weeks, please! Read this one. Dr. Reisman, if you don't know, has been exposing the evil fraud Kinsey for a long time. She not only tells the truth, she writes in a succint, pointed, yet not extremist writing style. Anyone who reads this and disagrees is on the wrong side of the culture war.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Great article. These treads about the consequences of pornography always seem to bring out the libertines on this forum. They lash out in defense of the morally reprehensible as nastily drunks defending their uncontrolled drinking. The joke is that some of them actually claim to be conservatives.

[D.P.Roberts]

Hmm. Dr. Judy seems to have a rather deep obsession with this subject.