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To: wbill
Whether kids will be desensitized to the indignity of it, or whether they'll just lose interest.

My bet is that it will be the glorification of sex for its own sake with a concomitant inability to form a true male-female bond. It will include the growth of homosexuality and polyamory and an increase in heterosexual divorce.

Oops. My bad. Already happened. Can't use that as a prediction.

I know, I know. I can't prove porn had a hand in those things. I still believe it.

Shalom.

173 posted on 04/11/2006 10:41:24 AM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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To: ArGee
I would agree that porn had a part in what you're describing, but I'd also say that there were a lot of other pieces playing a role, as well.

I think that acceptance of what you describe is cyclical. Late 60s and 70s were pretty liberal, and the 80s went conservative. Nineties (that's me...) went pretty liberal (sometimes I felt like a lone voice at college). The generation coming up in school now is comparatively conservative, from what I've seen.

I *also* think, that liberalism and conservativism constantly get redefined. For instance, a stance for or against gay marriage in this day and age is pretty much a well-defined point - conservatives (generally) are against it, libs (generally) are for it. In the 60s, the discussion would never even have occurred.

So, does this mean that we're all slouching towards Gomorrah? Not necessarily, IMHO. Society is also progressing in a positive manner - see Civil Rights legislation, greater inclusion of women in the workplace, and so forth. Not withstanding the looney 1% that are constant fodder for discussion here - the ardent feminazis, the Jesse Jacksons, and so forth - I think that society as a whole is *mostly* progressing for the better. Crime is down, divorce rates are down, violent crime is way down.

Unfortunately, illegitimacy rates are way up - that concerns me for the coming generations because society is built upon individual families. It remains to be seen what the ultimate effect of a 'fatherless' society will be, but I can't imagine that it will be good, unless there's a huge backlash (I'm seeing that in the workplace more and more in the past few years...Dads making time for their kids, rather than working the ridculous hours of the late 90s.) I guess that we'll find out.

/random rant off. thx for listening.

190 posted on 04/11/2006 11:07:56 AM PDT by wbill
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