Posted on 04/15/2006 10:35:45 AM PDT by wagglebee
Millions of men and boys are falling for the destructive myth that looking at "adult" porn is normal, healthy and harmless for "regular guys." Way too many are finding themselves handcuffed between two cops, under arrest for sexual conduct with a kid. The hook-ups with kids are occurring on the main streets of U.S. cities and the dark alleys of the virtual world.
Experts estimate that 50,000 sexual predators prowl the Internet for children every day. As long as myth trumps truth, the next estimate could be 10 times what it is today. Stopping predators before they ravage our kids and grandkids will be insurmountable.
The easy access to millions of pages of online porn is speeding up the dependence and escalation to harder-core material and more.
The centerfolds no longer gratify? There's an unending supply of harder-core images instantly available within a few mouse clicks and free for the taking. Want deviant? There's deviant beyond anything uncorrupted minds can fathom. Want some younger "stuff"? There's "pseudo" child porn where young-looking adults dress and act like teens and even toddlers sucking a pacifier and hugging stuffed animals. Want real child porn when the pretend doesn't do it anymore? It's traded for free by perverts in Internet chat rooms and encrypted Web sites, and for sale, and raking in billions. Want kids? There's a virtual playground full of kids ready to chat, instant message, and eager to send digital photos and videos to other "kids." Want a pimp for a hook-up with a kid? No need to risk being seen picking up a kid in a red light district. Their pimps and slave masters are online.
"'Men fly in, are met by pimps, have sex with a 14-year-old for lunch, and get home in time for dinner with the family," said Sanford Jones, the chief juvenile judge of Fulton County, Georgia."1
Stop and read it again until you get it. Men are flying home to dinner with the wife and kids after having sex with a kid. Who does that?
Most people can't even handle thinking about it, so they mix more myth and some truth to relieve their discomfort:
Not every guy who has sex with a minor is a pedophile. Most aren't. You may need to read that again too.
There is a difference between pedophiles who prefer to have sex with children and child molesters who prefer to have sex with adults but will have sex with a child if the situation presents itself. And it presents itself big time on the Internet.
For the kids' sake, educate yourself by reading Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis, authored by Ken Lanning for The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. spent 27 years investigating and apprehending child molesters of all types and training thousands of law enforcement officers the skills to do the same. America's parents and children are forever in his debt.
For the child, it couldn't matter less what the clinical definition of his or her molester may be. What should matter to the rest of us is stopping "regular guys" from becoming child molesters.
According to Gates and Goodman:
Half of the street-level prostitutes in Atlanta are believed to be under 18, according to experts. Others are booked through Internet sex sites and from social sites like Black Planet, where girls innocently post profiles. … In March, police arrested a Canadian man meeting a 14-year-old girl he found through the Internet. … Another man drove from North Georgia, with a bag containing a teddy bear, a love note and condoms, snorting methamphetamine on the way. He expected a 13-year-old girl, but instead found Heather Lackey, a corporal with the Peachtree City Police Department. … During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, one man kept boys and hosted sex parties nightly.2
Just last week a congressional committee heard the gut-wrenching testimony of a 19-year-old telling how he began operating his own commercial Web site where men could view sexually explicit photos he took of himself. Justin Berry's nightmarish story is that of a 13-year-old boy in a broken home allowed unsupervised access to a Webcam and the Internet. A lonely boy looking for friends and love in all the wrong places immediately "found" adult males who seduced him with attention, gifts and money. Personal meetings led to his sexual abuse, which led to him sexually exploiting other boys by encouraging them to join the sordid business.3
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's latest weekly report indicates that its Cybertipline has received "2,589 complaints of unsolicited obscene material sent to a child" from September 1, 2002, through April 9, 2006. Worse yet are the "15,995 complaints of online enticement of children for sexual acts" in the last six years.
Here are just two recent media reports:
Men and boys: Beware before you click the mouse one more time and take a step closer to becoming one of the bad guys.
Part II will show how the porn industry is paving the road to the perversion it pretends to condemn by pandering "teen porn," with advice from lawyers who help them cash in on the big demand and skirt the law.
Jan LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America, the nation's largest public policy women's organization, is an expert in pornography law. She has covered this issue for 14 years.
This article first appeared on Human Events Online.
This is just so much nonsense. The Christian church is eaten up with guys who use the stuff. Ask any pastor. There have been stories posted here about how seminary students are huge porn viewers.
All these guys struggle with guilt. They aren't pedophiles, nor in most cases will their conduct escalate beyond looking at girly pictures. If every guy who looked at smut in some form was a sex criminal, all you'd have is sex criminals in this country with a very small remnant of righteous men left over.
Women don't like porn. No big news here. I don't blame them. But the fanatics saying all porn leads to sex crime is the same as all the libs' hysteria about guns, not people, causing crime as a whole.
Fry the sex criminals and pedophiles. Execute them. The heck with all this "I did it because...."
I have said before, and I'll say it again: pornography takes something which God has given freely to us (i.e., sex) and twists and perverts it into something which is poisonous to the soul. Sex is intended to be the highest possible expression of love between a man and a woman, it is NOT a recreational or "extreme" sport, in which the only goal is the physical gratification of the senses.
Sex can be a wonderful servant, or it can be a terrible master, and those who "have" to get their porno fix on a regular basis already know how their minds can become enslaved, even when they are unable to admit it to themselves, let alone anyone else.
Yes, but should it require the iron boot of the state to correct them?
Agreed. Mohammed was a pedophile.
I think the number of older men trying to pick up young girls might drop if our malls would enforcea dress code . I was at the White Marsh Mall in MD last night and believe me, even the Pope would have been in conflict.
True. Where I live, parents are buying their daughters breast implants for their 15th birthdays. About once a week, you'll see something in the paper about a 20 or 21 year old guy who got involved with one of these girls. I suspect that 10 times as many of these incidents are simply covered up.
Somebody here posted last week that CFA isn't conservative but rather authoritarian. I believe I agree with that.
They really dont seem to get the difference between what is done by choice by adults versus what is done by force to women or is done to children too young to consent.
"Damaged and unstable men often look at pornography; pornography does not in and of itself create damaged and unstable men."
Pornography is the plaything of immature and emotionally troubled men. There's nothing "adult" about it. It's for sexual retards. And the big trouble with it is that it hooks right up to perversion, pedaphelia (as has already been mentioned) and every other sexual deviance.
The speed increases the longer one is into it, and leads to crashes (serious trouble in one's life).
The most censored book in America is the Bible.
"Since more married men are pedophiles, then single men, does that mean damaged and unstable men often seek out marriage?"
I don't see why not. They could hide in it or honestly hope to be cured by it, both mistakes.
"ornography is merely a symptom. The core problems are lack of identity and purpose, and in desperate fashion this yawning gulf inside the soul is filled with perversion.
Belief in God, not censorship, is the solution to the problem. But the modern American is too sophisticated for such a simplistic, backwards answer to his questions about the nature of the universe and his place within it."
You are right. Jesus fills that hungry space and nothing else does for long.
You are of course, right, but a LOT of people are incapable of separating cause and effect.
"Treating adults like children seems like a bad idea to me."
But men who go for pornography are not adults, though their bodies might be grown up.
[The easy access to millions of pages of online porn is speeding up the dependence and escalation to harder-core material and more.]
This story is baloney.
There is NO PORN on the Internet.
"The culture and sex education also makes children more vulnerable to sexual predators. "
Really, I think sex education made me less vulnerable. Good sex education is the only positive thing that came out of my mother's flirtation with the unitarian church - they dealt with EVERYTHING, including risks and consequences.
Treating adults like children seems like a bad idea to me.
Laws against porn are not treating adults like children. It is protecting society from the fall out of porn.
I believe this story could be told over and over again, just change a few details. Children are SO VULNERABLE. Watch out particularly for the lonely child. That's why it is so tragic that the government, in the name of social services and even education and "character development," is corrupting the minds of children and damaging their moral sense with all this amoral, homosexual/bisexual/transexual/etc nonsense. And it is also why we cannot participate by simply demanding our own "free speech" time with the kids. They are being desensitized and corrupted with this non-stop sex stuff, not just with pornography. When kids get the right to vote and drink and be independent of their parents, then we can talk about free speech and free choices in moral matters. Until then, where are the adults whose job it is to supervise and protect the young? Why is the government the enemy of children in terms of their development of a moral sense and virtue?
Huh?!
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