Rodney asks: “You want Marriot to go out of business? How does it help the anti-porn world if Marriot goes out of business and the other businesses, selling porn, take over Marriot’s hotels? Why do you care so much anyway if some business traveler watches the porn?”
In order...
1. No, we want Marriott to join Omni, Days Inn, and other hotel chains that refuse to profit from the sale of pornography and still somehow manage to stay in business.
2. If Marriott discovers — unlike Omni, Days Inn, etc. — that it can’t remain in business without selling porn, we’d prefer that Omni or Days Inn buy their properties.
3. Only a partial response:
* A University of Calgary Study reported: “The results are clear and consistent; exposure to pornographic material puts one at increased risk for developing sexually deviant tendencies, committing sexual offenses, experiencing difficulties in one’s intimate relationships, and accepting the rape myth.” http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/mar/02031203.html%20
* Law enforcement officials confirm these findings based on their prosecution of sex crimes against women and children. They report that pornography is a major motivating factor in the crime of rape and a startling 100 percent correlation between cases of child sexual abuse and the child molesters’ use of adult-oriented or child pornography.
* The United Nations Commission on Human Rights appropriately labels pornography “a form of violence against women that ‘glamorizes the degradation and maltreatment of women and asserts their subordinate function as mere receptacles for male lust’.” http://www.un.org:80/rights/dpi1772e.htm
Gov. Romney himself — in his recent Regent University commencement address — said pornographic and violent movies were responsible in part for the horrific violence that occurred at Virginia Tech. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/05/romneys_speech_at_regent.php
The Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, Utah, in March interviewed former California Lt. Gov. John Harmer, chairman of The Lighted Candle Society and author of the recent book “The Sex Industrial Complex.” According to the Clipper: “’Pornography creates a chemical addiction in the same way cigarettes and alcohol do,’ said Harmer. In his book, Harmer cites sources from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the British National Addiction Centre to describe how dopamine, a key drug released by the brain during arousal, has the same effect as cocaine or speed and can create the same addictions in the brain. For children and teens, Harmer feels that the addiction could be even stronger and more damaging.” http://www.lightedcandlesociety.org/newsletters/LCS%20%20March%20Newsletter%20For%20Email%20Edition.htm
1. No, we want Marriott to join Omni, Days Inn, and other hotel chains that refuse to profit from the sale of pornography and still somehow manage to stay in business.
I didn't know that, thanks.. and it makes your argument less "absurd" to me.
You just hate the whole idea of freedom, don’t you? If you don’t like the idea of being in a hotel room with a TV that might have been used to watch soft-core porn at some point in the past, then go somewhere else. Some people object to bibles in hotel rooms. You’re just as bad as they are.
As so too does strenuous exercise, sex (of course only that sex blessed by marriage)and any number of other activities (like freeping)
I believe this kind of thinking was tried out earlier in Afghanistan by the Taleban Morality Police.
That is either a lie or the writer doesn't understand the meaning of 100 percent correlation. If it were, then everyone who ever watched pornography would have molested a child. It would be a perfect predictor, and it is not.