Posted on 10/16/2024 11:02:57 AM PDT by Morgana
To some of us, the unholy marriage of the Democratic Party and the pornography industry may seem like an obvious one, almost an inevitability, but it was still “newsworthy” that a coalition of pornography producers, distributors, and “performers” officially launched an online ad campaign urging porn-watchers to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
The $100,000 ad campaign is based on the fear that former President Donald Trump — according to The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a program which Trump has repeatedly disavowed — might ban pornography and jail porn producers if he were returned to office. The ads label Trump and his supporters “weirdos” for even considering outlawing pornography — as if sitting alone in the dark watching other people pretend to have sex were somehow a normal activity. The only surprising thing about this bit of news is that the porn industry isn’t more heavily involved in pro-Democrat politics. Why? Because porn is the twin sibling of the Democratic Party’s favorite policy plank.
The Democratic Party once espoused and championed a number of appealing policies and principles, from supporting the working class to protecting consumers from corporate corner-cutting. But especially over the past several years, nearly every position that once earned the party the respect and even loyalty of American citizens has been jettisoned or forgotten, replaced with the party’s singular master-passion: abortion.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its disastrous Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973, the Democratic Party has increasingly made abortion activism a key tenet of its platform. Initially, there was some opposition to abortion even within the party, largely led by its then-strong Catholic wing, but pro-life voices were ignored and eventually silenced over the decades and the Democratic Party’s abortion position went from “safe, legal, and rare,” as coined by then-President Bill Clinton in 1992, to anytime, anywhere, for any reason, and all on the taxpayer’s dime.
Now, in the just-over-two-years since Trump’s Supreme Court appointees reversed Roe, Harris is essentially running on a platform comprised entirely of abortion. She is unable to coherently articulate policy positions on the economy (although she assures us that she has a plan, as evinced by the oft-repeated claim that she grew up in a middle-class family) and largely avoids the hot-button issue of immigration, which has become an unmitigated crisis under her tenure in the Executive Branch, threatening the very existence of the American nation. But she travels the country to deliver lectures on the necessity of abortion, makes appearances on sex podcasts to discuss “reproductive rights,” and shamelessly visits abortion facilities, where unborn children are brutally eviscerated in the name of what Harris calls “freedom.”
What’s diabolically ironic about Harris and her ilk calling abortion “reproductive rights” or “reproductive freedom” is the inherent admission that sex and pregnancy are reproductive. No, it’s not a “clump of cells,” no it’s not some “fetus” of undefined species, it is a human being reproduced. One would think that, after thousands of years of human beings having sex and making babies, it would be obvious by now that the two go together.
If that were not the case, human history would have ended perhaps thousands of years ago. The Greeks and Romans of old may have asked Demeter or Ceres for a bountiful harvest, but they knew that they had to go out into the fields and till the earth. The Norse may have asked Odin or Thor for victory in combat, but they knew that they had to take up their swords and shields. The Egyptians may have asked Thoth to bless their writing, but they knew that they had to take up pen and ink and papyrus themselves. Just so, all knew that even if they prayed to their respective gods for fertility or a large family, they had to have sex first. This is where pornography and abortion intersect.
Porn may not be a phenomenon unique to the 21st century — one of the earliest cited examples of possible pornography, an illustrated Egyptian scroll, dates from roughly 1,100 years before the birth of Christ — but the advent of the internet has made it almost inescapable, and the ready availability of photo and video technology has opened the floodgates to depictions of more and more depraved and explicit material. Now, practically every cell phone and every laptop has access to pornography. No scrolls need be purchased, no seedy shops need be visited, no magazines stockpiled in shoeboxes under beds: millions of ultra-HD videos are available at the mere click of a button.
One of the chief effects — if not purposes — of pornography is the separation of sexual pleasure from the sexual act. Mere masturbation may, of course, yield some degree of sexual pleasure, but what if it were enhanced with graphic visual stimuli? What if one could return to that visual stimuli time and time again, every night, or even several times a day? And what if there were no consequences? No awkward phone call the next morning to explain that, although the sex was great, you’re not really looking for anything serious right now; no walk of shame from one dorm building or one apartment complex to the next, with messy hair and last night’s outfit; and, of course, no chance of getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant. Remember, all this is spread out before you, as Satan spread out “all the kingdoms of the world” (Matthew 4:8) before Christ, all at the click of a button.
Of course, pornography is not consequence-free; that is merely one of its many poisonous promises. Addiction, psychological devastation, social impairment, and (at least in men) porn-induced erectile dysfunction are just a few of the many maladies that accompany porn use, not to mention the damage that pornography use wreaks upon one’s soul. For in separating sexual pleasure from sex itself, and thus from the loving gift of self that God designed sex to be, pornography is marked as unnatural, a mere perversion of the great good crafted and promised by God, an attempt to remake what God has made, but in the image of Hell, not of Heaven.
Pornography is also, inevitably, never enough. Just as masturbation on its own pales in comparison to the stimulating use of pornography, so pornography eventually pales in comparison to real sex. But after years of addiction (nearly three quarters of teens had been exposed to porn before the age of 12 and a majority watched porn regularly, according to a 2023 survey) to this thing which promises no consequences, facing the possibility of “accidentally” bringing a new human life into existence and having to care for this little creature which shares your own DNA seems terrifying. Thus, one of the greatest joys of the sexual act — greater even than the profound spiritual, emotional, and physical union which sex is meant to be, in the context of a committed, lifelong marriage — becomes a terror, a source of dread.
And thus pornography is revealed as the incestuous twin of the Democratic Party’s chief policy commitment: abortion. While abortion, in its malice and violence, promises the pleasure of sex without the resulting child and contingent responsibility, pornography promises the pleasure of sex without even another human being present. The one is hard and cruel, an insurgent slaughtering those whose rightful home is the womb, while its twin is lethargic and apathetic, sterilizing the sexual act and removing the one component needed to possibly bring a child into the world: someone else.
At their root, both pornography and abortion share the same view of sex, a supremely selfish one: this is no act of love, of freely giving oneself in complete surrender to the beloved, but an act rather of consuming, of the ravenous sexual appetite being fed yet another meal. And that sexual appetite, gluttonously fed and obeyed at every turn, will become the dominating force in one’s life, will not be denied, and will not be tamed. No child will be permitted to infringe on the sexual appetite’s constant feasting. Abortion kills the child. Pornography ensures that there never will be a child in the first place. The two vices are, to borrow the words of William Shakespeare, “two yoke-devils sworn to either’s purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them.”
The evil of both abortion and pornography stems from the fact that each rejects the design of God, each hubristically declares the self to be a higher authority than God, each declares the self to be God. Of course, God’s design for sex necessitates openness to children, achieved through the giving of oneself to another in that sexual act. Abortion rejects God’s plan by removing the child: sex is degraded, from a gift of both body and soul to simply using the other person, and any child which may result will be slain. Pornography rejects God’s plan by removing the necessary two-ness of sex: masturbation before a digital altar replaces the gift of self and thwarts the conception of a child.
It only makes sense for the pornography industry to be openly campaigning for the Democratic Party, the champion of pornography’s violent twin.
Fact is they’re not going to “do” anything with it other than promote more of it.
one of the earliest cited examples of possible pornography, an illustrated Egyptian scroll,..
Gotta get my hands on that.
Seriously though, the lie that the girls in porn aren’t being forced or at least coerced is just that...A LIE.
The idea that any prostitute (MAYBE there are exceptions) isn’t owned by organized crime or kicking up to a pimp is a LIE.
Pornography...how honest can we be here? I was up overnight in my mid 20s when it was first possible to download a picture ...even if it took over 2 hours!!
It can consume your life! Skip meals, skip chores, go to work exhausted, expect sex on the first date because hey...that’s what the porn girls do.
I broke the habit by getting a life :) Working a lot, going back to school, getting a great girl.
The TOUGHEST part was saying “OH MY GOODNESS, I’M ADDICTED TO PORN!”
I didn’t say it with such clean words...but you get the point.
It affects the same area of the brain as gambling, food, drugs...but even GOOD THINGS affect that area of the brain...
giving, praying, believing in God, sharing, loving, striving, learning, working at a job you like...God knows what he’s doing :)
If we choose to take the bad ones and run with them....and Lord knows I have....gambling, benzos, alcohol, fooling around, binge eating..it ENDS BADLY.
Feel free to tell grandkids about this dope online who went down ALL the wrong roads at one time or another.
TWO STEPS off the straight and narrow path....and brother you need 10,000 steps to find the narrow path again.
it doesn’t make sense....but it’s definitely true.
I know.
God bless.
Pornography is a vice. But abortion is a crime—murder!!
If you think women in porn are goddesses then watch this video “140 Female Pornstars Who Have Died”. Women in porn are really messed up. Very sad.
https://youtu.be/ZqTZgOY-JsU?si=_vrEm3aqgfFQAR0l
I remember when Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian Immigrant. The news media went BERSERK placing blame everywhere. Toy Guns! Saturday Night Special Guns. Glorification of Violence on TV and movies! Pulp fiction! Comic Books and called for government intervention!
So all TV shows for adults, but safe for kids, dumbed down to kiddie shows. Movies on TV were butchered to remove “violence”.
Pulp fiction novels changed their covers to less gritty sexual ones, toy guns vanished from toy shelves, Real guns were saddled with the 1968 Gun control act.
But movie makers got a pass! They said they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system and dump the Hays Code. GMRX was the first.
Instead of reigning in violence and sex on the screen it opened the floodgates to the most vile, reprehensible blood soaked movies that ever escaped in Hollywood to get the now coveted “R” and “X” ratings. Some movies actually had new scenes shot adding more blood, guts, sex to the screen.
Sexual movies that would only be shown at “art” theaters were now shown on the major Big Screens.
The SCOTUS decision on porn just made it worse and the abortion decision created new business for abortionists.
Not long ago I found some old Randolph Scott movies on DVD. The store refused to sell them to me UNTIL I prove I was 18 or over. I was 66 at the time. The reason is those 1950s movies and others back then were considered “UNRATED” and got the same treatment as NR rated porn today.
Part of it is that men are not getting laid as often, because working women are being more picky (since they feel that they either don’t need a husband, or can wait into their 30s)
The 6 foot investment bankers are getting lots of attention, the fast food workers are not.
One, erectile dysfunction -- even young men -- when in bed with a real woman. The studies are showing that their brains somehow have been rewired from watching a lot of porn and somehow the hot naked babe next to you is not enough, or as good, as the woman on the screen.
Two, women are reporting more incidents of when they're having sex with a guy there is slapping, choking, urinating on ... i.e. fringe violent behavior. The more they porn, the more extreme that porn needs to be for them to get off and they're bringing that with them in sexual encounters with real women.
So true. Bless you for your testimony and having accomplished so much distance on your journey. You are courageous!
You are correct from one angle. But from another, the production of porn is laden with crimes as well as sins, and the consumer of porn participates in making those crimes lucrative.
Margaret Sanger promoted sexual freedom, knowing full well that abortion clinics would follow.
“””””The 6 foot investment bankers are getting lots of attention, the fast food workers are not.”””””
Not true at all, getting laid is a talent and a personality and a guy who has it will do well while one who doesn’t won’t, and a young guy who has it and is around young women does great, and fast food is full of young girls, on both sides of the counter.
What the Democratic Party Has to Do with It
On the list of bad things their name isn’t on it.
There is nothing wrong with porn. And Trump will be the last one to ban porn after banging porn stars.
The rats are the ones who want to censor everything -let’s keep the focus on the prize.
“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”
― WC Fields
Do you think a billionaire would f### Stormy Daniels? I just can’t imagine someone who could buy his way into most women’s beds going for an unattractive nasty cow like her.
Don’t belive stupid lies about Trump.
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