Pornography is a "dirty little secret" and people are logging on to look at it, more than ever

WZZM News-Grand Rapids ^ | February 1, 2006 | Sarah Sell

[jwparkerjr]

re: "By God's grace, people lifting me up, I've been able to get a hold on it."

OK, that posting has been pretty well used up. Let's move on from the guy who gave the stripper a hand he had stolen from the cadaver.

[FreedomCalls]

"It creates unrealistic expectations and unrealistic ideas to what normal really looks like," said Karel.

And the photoshopped super-skinny waif models in Vogue, Elle, and Glamour doesn't creat unrealistic expectations and unrealistic ideas of what women want to look like? And watching the steroid-inflated men of the NFL and MLB doesn't unrealistic expectations and unrealistic ideas of what a man should look like?

[jwparkerjr]

Sorry, even with your generous offer of giving me $9.95 a month I don't think I'd be interested. Thank you anyway.

[Eccl 10:2]

yeah - nice helpmate.

[L.N. Smithee]

In other words, it's exactly the same as it was 40 years ago when I was a kid, except for the "logging on" part. Back then, it was the pile of Playboys found next to some neighbor's trash can.

It's not the same at all.

In past years, if you wanted porn, you had to go somewhere to see it. At the least, to your attic or basement or a friend's house; perhaps to a Pussycat theater or a roadway adult bookstore in a raincoat, or the section of the local video rental place with the drapes around it. Nowadays, you can watch porn on cable TV or at XXX websites, and nobody has to know but you and you-know-who.

But the biggest difference of all is this: if you have email, you have received at least one time an unsolicited obscene message inviting you to view online porn. Even if you have no interest, it's been put in your face to spur your curiosity. You used to have to go get porn; now, it comes to get you.

[pandoraou812]

That is pure nightmare material ....I know I am going to have bad dreams tonight. lmao

[backtothestreets]

"Pornography on the internet is a 57-billion dollar industry. It's larger than all professional sports. There are 4.2 million pornographic websites."

That 57-billion dollars is most likely the reason Congress has for years shunned requests to create the xxx domain to go along with com, gov, org, net and the others. It would be too easy to filter by parents, businesses and email providers if all pornographic sites were relegated to xxx domains.

[elmer fudd]

Actually I'm not so sure that internet porn creates unrealistic images at all. That was true of the pornography of 20 years ago, but if you view any of the online stuff today you quickly discover that there are literally millions of old, fat and ugly people out there doing everything but turning themselves inside out on camera. A lot of times it's too damn realistic. Like I really needed to know what an obese sixty year old looks like spreadeagled in lingerie.

[ModelBreaker]

Dr. Paul Critelli sees patients who have all kinds of addictions. He's not surprised that pornography addiction is becoming more common. He says Americans have a different view of sex and nudity compared to people in other countries. American beliefs that nudity and sex should be kept out of view, create an addictive urge for some to get their eyes on it.

Yeah. That's it. It's American hang-ups about nudity that cause addiction. If we would all just be more Swedish, no one would ever look at pornography.

[GregoTX]

you are a terrible terrible person for that.

[freedomdefender]

That 57-billion dollars is most likely the reason Congress has for years shunned requests to create the xxx domain to go along with com, gov, org, net and the others. It would be too easy to filter by parents, businesses and email providers if all pornographic sites were relegated to xxx domains.

I think you're right. And when a social conservative was nominated for AG - John Ashcroft - the fear that he would crack down on porn merchants made him subject to a firestorm of hate from Feinstein, Feingold, Shumer and other front-people for degeneracy, on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

[SmoothTalker]

Upshot is that men like looking at boobs. Real shocker.

[jdm]

I love it!

[DakotaRed]

Tax the daylights out of it, like they do smokers.

That cures everything, right? *sarc*

[zarf]

How the hell did flashbunny get on a porn thread?

Ah, looking for those Rudy candy shots!

[Slings and Arrows]

Upshot is that men like looking at boobs.

Hmmm...

Nope, doesn't do a thing for me at all.

[LowOiL]

Pornography's link to rape

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674672/posts

Larry Flynt's Daughter Blasts Pornography

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3819eab51d8a.htm

[Dr.Zoidberg]

That's not funny man. Not funny at all.

/retch

[IIntense]

Keep in mind: God made us and that includes Helen.

Got any complaints? Ask God!

Really, it's one thing to view anyone as "unattractive". Making public jokes at their expense? Could we say that is cruel?

Without facelifts, makeup, etc., we are as we were made.

Sorry. I've thrown cold water on the fun. Forget I said it.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Actually I'm not so sure that internet porn creates unrealistic images at all. That was true of the pornography of 20 years ago, but if you view any of the online stuff today you quickly discover that there are literally millions of old, fat and ugly people out there doing everything but turning themselves inside out on camera. A lot of times it's too damn realistic. Like I really needed to know what an obese sixty year old looks like spreadeagled in lingerie.

Some of those more realistic women have been the biggest turn-ons for me. Something about having a personality that shows through in pictures does a lot more for me than silicon and "the perfect look."