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Dennis Prager Is Dead Wrong About Pornography: It’s Adultery, Not Adultery Prevention
The Federalist ^ | 04/21/2023 | Kylee Griswold

Posted on 04/21/2023 9:11:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Ya know I disagree with Dennis on this one but overall all I agree with him and find him a much needed and measured voice.


41 posted on 04/21/2023 10:09:00 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (The “only Trumpers” are just as damaging to the conservative cause as are the “never Trumpers”)
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To: SeekAndFind

When we examine the centers of the brain that porn affects, we find porn everywhere.

And yes, it’s all damaging. People magazine is porn for women. Facebook is porn. Hell - all social media is porn. I get these little blip-verts (Hats off to Max Headroom) about alternate home construction and it does the same things.

“I deserve _________ instead of the garbage ________ that I currently have”

“This guy is getting what I want. I want what he has.”

“Here is video of someone doing something that I want to do. It could actors - I simply don’t know but my mind is telling me these are real people. Look, the title even says it’s real people”

Then the 3 tenets of Narcissism: I deserve this. I expect this. I am justified in doing whatever I want to get this.


42 posted on 04/21/2023 10:10:02 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: DouglasKC

True. I think the writers of the Bible put too much about Mary magnaline who was Jesus’ best friend and was a prostitute. I think that has made many think it’s cool to do since Jesus was eventually ok with it. I think he got mad at first but got over it and they had a life long relationship even to the point she was invited to the cross on the day of Jesus’ death. And I believe she was invited to look in the cave to see that Jesus rose from the dead.


43 posted on 04/21/2023 10:11:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: x

I think you are completly wrong on your supposition that it may reduce serial killers. Child porn doesn’t reduce sex crimez against children, so why would it reduce criminality against adults? In an industry that already relies on human trafficking, drug addiction and physical/verbal abuse to make its product. Not all murder porn is faked.

You are making the same moral error that Praeger does. No moral, spiritual or physical good can come from acts that degrade and objectify human beings.


44 posted on 04/21/2023 10:12:16 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

When it comes sex all have sinned in thought, word and deed.

That having been said I will say experience with looking at naked women is ultimately not a good one whether live or in magazines or books or more modern media.

The mind is conditioned in public at work one tends to want to undress the women all around.

And those women often sense the dirty transaction taking place it’s the spreading of a “lust virus” a sexualization process.

Women being started at bothered incensed often but maybe going over to a darker side in their own thinking and actions from such experiences.


45 posted on 04/21/2023 10:14:45 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: SeekAndFind

“If pornography is a substitute for one’s wife, it’s awful. If it’s a substitute for adultery, it’s not awful.””

During my time in Saudi Arabia, I encountered a Muslim missionary who claimed that engaging in sexual activity with a prepubescent boy was permissible, as it served as a substitute for committing adultery. This is a regular practice in Muslim countries.


46 posted on 04/21/2023 10:16:34 AM PDT by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Men want variety. … If pornography is a substitute for one’s wife, it’s awful. If it’s a substitute for adultery, it’s not awful.”

Incoherent.

47 posted on 04/21/2023 10:20:12 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Dilbert San Diego

RE: Which talk show hosts do you guys prefer to Dennis Prager?

My favorite just passed away about 2 years ago.


48 posted on 04/21/2023 10:20:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DEPcom
with a prepubescent boy was permissible

One is inclined to question how much of his youth was spent polishing eggplants or getting rear-ended. "Do unto others what was done to you" ...

49 posted on 04/21/2023 10:23:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: chajin

Your assessment of Talmudic law is incorrect.
Prager does not yet practice Orthodox Judaism. As pointed out there are scriptural prohibitions, and in the Talmud and post-Talmudic code of Jewish law explicit prohibitions against gazing at anything sexually titillating or salacious. Absolutely prohibited.
He’s usually a great conservative spokesman but is way off the Jewish reservation here.

In Chassidic philosophy— the thinking-sin is worse than the actual in some ways... corrupting core soul-faculties rather than just exterior actions/limbs...


50 posted on 04/21/2023 10:23:28 AM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: montag813
That “wife” was also his brother’s widow and any resulting children would be his brother’s heirs rather than his own and unless there were no resulting sons, it would’ve effected Onan’s inheritance.

It’s a peculiar story that thankfully isn’t culturally relevant to the United States but has been in various parts of the world. It’s too simplistic to claim it’s about contraception or self indulgence.

He took her as a wife but refused to procreate with her. He was motivated by his own financial benefit. He was lustful, greedy and refused to honor the commitment he made in the marriage. Something to consider.

51 posted on 04/21/2023 10:24:34 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Phinneous
Your assessment of Talmudic law is incorrect.

I appreciate your correction. I didn't remember any references in my cursory reading of the Babylonian Talmud, which makes me a complete non-expert 🥸 thank you again

52 posted on 04/21/2023 10:28:24 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: al baby

Ha ha ha!


53 posted on 04/21/2023 10:29:25 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: al baby

“Women watch porn too”

Much of the “romance novel” industry is “chick porn”.

And wives who don’t want their husbands to turn to porn should make their best effort to keep him sexually satisfied.


54 posted on 04/21/2023 10:32:33 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: al baby

Sounds like a Rodney joke.


55 posted on 04/21/2023 10:34:10 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Exactly.


56 posted on 04/21/2023 10:35:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Eagles6

That’s right!


57 posted on 04/21/2023 10:39:20 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Exactly, I disagree with Dennis for once.


58 posted on 04/21/2023 10:40:43 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: x

Are you offering you and your spouse/partners services?
I mean if you really believe what you are saying?


59 posted on 04/21/2023 10:50:35 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: x

Have any daughters who might be interested in a career in movies? Wink wink nudge nudge.


60 posted on 04/21/2023 10:52:34 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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