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[Ecumenic] Sexual Junk Food: Porn's Degrading Effects
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| Tuesday, June 29, 2010
| Paul Strand
Posted on 06/29/2010 7:27:56 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON -- A group of scholars, social scientists, and psychologists are sounding alarm bells that pornography is much more harmful to society than most people think.
The group recently revealed before the National Press Club startling new evidence of how widespread porn has become in the U.S.
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TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: addiction; dopedealers; family; health; libertarians; medical; medicalmarijuana; moralabsolutes; parenting; pornography; research; science
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:28:04 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
To: GonzoII
"pornography has begun a widespread warping in many Americans' private lives." The end effect is the culture at large.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:28:27 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: GonzoII
A group of scholars, social scientists, and psychologists are sounding alarm bells that pornography is much more harmful to society than most people think.I'm quite sure they will be ostracized by their peers because of this.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:30:25 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: GonzoII
The problem is how do you objectively define porn?
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:30:49 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: Perdogg
“You know it when you see it” is the best our legal minds have come up with in 200 years. Definitely not easy!
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(It's Islam)
To: GonzoII
Cueing libertarians to complain that the Religious Right is trying to take away their nudie books in 5...4...3...
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:33:18 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(When fascism came to America, it was wrapped in the Democrat platform and carrying a welfare check.)
To: Teacher317
we have a legal definition, but how does one do a scientific study that cannot accurately defines something that may be “harmful”?
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:33:55 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: GonzoII
"Particularly on the Internet, where much of pornography today is consumed, the type of sexuality depicted often has more to do with violence, extreme fetishes, and mutual degradation than with fun, much less with sexual or emotional connection," Paul wrote.
.....needed repeating.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:34:14 AM PDT
by
Banjoguy
(Barack H. Obama, the Democrats and the MSM are at war with the American people.)
To: GonzoII
And? Evangelical Christians have been warning us of this since the Internet went mainstream.
To: GonzoII
Get ready for the SWITCH !
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:39:22 AM PDT
by
traumer
To: Perdogg
The problem is how do you objectively define porn?
Anything that you would be ashamed for your Mother to see you reading in the bathroom.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:40:09 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
To: GonzoII
Porn's Degrading EffectsToo much can cause blindness....
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:43:10 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: GonzoII
One should be judged by their actions, not their thoughts. Thats got to be the bottom line in all of this.
To: Teacher317
Yet that is the best definition of it, and it’s pretty much universal. But the “clearly define it first” crowd are just using that as a shield to defend their habit. Sad, but that’s how our society is now.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:44:08 AM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
To: Perdogg
The problem is how do you objectively define porn? Do you want to stand in front of your Maker reading it?
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:44:32 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: mkjessup
Anything that you would be ashamed for your Mother to see you reading in the bathroom...If my mother is liberal then National Review falls into that category!
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:47:37 AM PDT
by
Bull Man
To: Perdogg
I don’t think you do, unless you want to turn over power to someone to do your thinking/feeling for you.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:50:52 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
To: Nonstatist
"One should be judged by their actions, not their thoughts. Thats got to be the bottom line in all of this." Of course, the viewing of pornography is an action. ;0)
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:52:31 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: DJ MacWoW
Well it’s sure not like He doesn’t already know, is it?
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:52:44 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
To: DJ MacWoW
"Do you want to stand in front of your Maker reading it?" That should settle it.
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posted on
06/29/2010 7:55:19 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
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