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The pornification of America
Boston Globe ^ | Don Aucoin

Posted on 01/24/2006 2:50:39 PM PST by SmoothTalker

Actors having real sex in art-house movies. Erstwhile child star Lindsay Lohan appearing barely clad on the cover of her new album. Teenage girls strolling down Main Street USA attired in ''Porn Star" T-shirts. A bikini-wearing Jessica Simpson bumping and grinding in the music video for ''These Boots Are Made for Walkin.' " College-age women flashing for the ''Girls Gone Wild" video series with nonchalant exhibitionism.

Not too long ago, pornography was a furtive profession, its products created and consumed in the shadows. But it has steadily elbowed its way into the limelight, with an impact that can be measured not just by the Internet-fed ubiquity of pornography itself but by the way aspects of the porn sensibility now inform movies, music videos, fashion, magazines, and celebrity culture.

Braving the inevitable accusations of prudery -- which they reject -- critics such as Paul are sounding the alarm. They say the current hypersexualized climate distorts the attitudes of young people toward sex and relationships. In particular, they contend it has a damaging effect on the self-image of young women and girls, who are confronted with a culture that objectifies them while disguising it as female empowerment.

''Our culture once glamorized cigarette smoking to a large extent. It was promoted by the medical establishment, the film industry, TV," she says. ''But once the evidence of harm began to be disseminated by the government, and by schools and the private sector, the number of people who started smoking went down. My hope is that once people realize the negative effect that pornography has on individuals, their children, their wives, and society as a whole, there will be a mind-set shift."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: busybodyamerica; corruptionofyouth; liberaltarians; moralabsolutes; moraldepravity; nannygohome; noneyadambusiness; pr0n
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1 posted on 01/24/2006 2:50:40 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker
A bikini-wearing Jessica Simpson bumping and grinding in the music video for ''These Boots Are Made for Walkin.

I must be jaded because Jessica Simpson is about as sexy to me an Lisa Simpson...not too, that is.

2 posted on 01/24/2006 2:53:51 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: SmoothTalker

This comes from The Boston Globe, who's ideal woman is Maureen Dowd.


3 posted on 01/24/2006 2:54:00 PM PST by Panerai
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To: Dark Skies

Lisa Simpson is 10 years old, dude.


4 posted on 01/24/2006 2:56:15 PM PST by billybudd
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To: SmoothTalker

Countdown to "filth is free speech" porn freaks in 3-2-1....


5 posted on 01/24/2006 2:56:40 PM PST by balch3
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To: Panerai
This comes from The Boston Globe, who's ideal woman is Maureen Dowd.

Oh, you mean Madame Gutterfly has admirers?


6 posted on 01/24/2006 2:57:30 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: balch3

Don't look at me!


7 posted on 01/24/2006 2:57:47 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: SmoothTalker
......Erstwhile child star Lindsay Lohan appearing barely.....

I guess "Erstwhile" would be a good word to use. I could think of a few others.

8 posted on 01/24/2006 2:58:10 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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I think that was his point.


9 posted on 01/24/2006 2:58:33 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: SmoothTalker
I admit I didn't even hear the word "pornography" until I was 21 and then it was mentioned on a TV show and I had to look it up in the dictionary. I am not kidding! And I am not THAT old! I can't believe it is so ubiquitous.
10 posted on 01/24/2006 3:00:14 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: Dark Skies
"I must be jaded because Jessica Simpson is about as sexy to me an Lisa Simpson"


11 posted on 01/24/2006 3:00:16 PM PST by Panerai
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To: SmoothTalker

BLAME LIBERAL MEDIA.


12 posted on 01/24/2006 3:00:21 PM PST by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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To: VU4G10
"BLAME LIBERAL MEDIA."

Blame the consumers. Big media is a business. If consumers weren't buying the filth and supporting its purveyors, the filth wouldn't be as widespread.
13 posted on 01/24/2006 3:03:11 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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If someone tapped that, and hard, she'd be a different person IMHO.


14 posted on 01/24/2006 3:03:24 PM PST by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: in hoc signo vinces

You might find someone blind enough, but I don't think you could find anyone desperate enough!


15 posted on 01/24/2006 3:06:29 PM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: Panerai
Here's my idea of sexy (she's got brains and looks)...


16 posted on 01/24/2006 3:07:40 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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They can not be any worse that the "characters" on Soul Train. I was changing channels and came across that station. Disgusting, to say the least.


17 posted on 01/24/2006 3:09:05 PM PST by MamaB (mom to an Angel)
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To: Dark Skies

Nice body, shame about the face. That nose needs its own zipcode.


18 posted on 01/24/2006 3:09:53 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker
Blame the consumers. Big media is a business. If consumers weren't buying the filth and supporting its purveyors, the filth wouldn't be as widespread.

You are correct. It doesn't matter who thinks it up, produces it, stars in it, or distributes it. If there was no market it would not exist. Regards,

MoodyBlu

19 posted on 01/24/2006 3:12:10 PM PST by MoodyBlu
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This guy is coming to this realization about 35 years late. And I love the way he tries to blame Conservatives for porn because he sees them as playing "repressive games" that only encourage pornography. I don't think there is a single subject where liberals thought processes run normally. I guess that's why they are liberals. Anyway, a little late in the day to turn back the hyper-sexed society. It has only gotten progressively more lurid and more generally accepted with each passing year.


20 posted on 01/24/2006 3:14:05 PM PST by speedy
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