Posted on 02/18/2002 11:57:50 PM PST by Cindy
"ADULT CONTENT"
by Cindy Furnare
The term "adult content" should bring to mind an informative document of substance. Unfortunately, just like the word "gay" has been perverted; so has the term "adult content."
Truly it is disgusting to be bombarded by "adult content" e- mails which you would NEVER sign up for. There is nothing "adult" about these "adult content" e-mails. As a matter of fact, the term "sick and perverted" accurately describes these "adult content" e-mails.
Well, the internet search engines which include "adult content" are not any better. Perverts on the internet are not behaving like "adults" and their "content" is outright pornographic. Why "adult content" is included in any search engine is beyond me.
So, shut off your computer and turn on the TV. You have to search around a bit with the remote and finally you find a good program to watch. Unfortunately, as you channel surf; you realize that disgusting movies and "adult" channels are becoming more prominent as television enters the "adult" stage for at-home viewers.
Frankly speaking, our politically correct society has given the nod to the normalization of perversion. How much perversion will our society tolerate before we grow up, act like adults, protect our children and save our society?
Will all the men and women of high moral fiber stand up now and XXX out the obscenity in our society? You can start at home by tolerating only decency and honesty. Make this the normal standard in your household. Be an upright person filled with integrity. Carry your high moral standard with you at all times --- at home, at work, at church and in your community. Let your character shine as a beacon of light in this dark world filled with evil.
Maybe someday, we can gayly define the term "adult content" in a bright light that won't bring shame upon our society.
Maybe....
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DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS:
adult: "A person who has attained the age of maturity or legal majority."
content: "Subject matter; substance, as of a document" gay: "Happy and carefree; merry"
pervert: "To turn to an improper use or purpose; misapply"
pornography: "Obscene literature or art"
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Conservative Education Forum "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." -from THE BIBLE: I Corinthians 15:57
I receive several hundred or quite a bit more (depends on what day is) e-mails. Sometimes an e-mail subject line may read for example "a message from Robert."
Sometimes, it really is a message from Robert or Linda or John etc. commenting on a web site or article, etc. Many times though, it's just another bulk/garbage e-mail.
I guess the point is though, from the "You Can Find Anyone, Anywhere" to "Hot Chicks in Action now" to "Enlarge your penis 3 sizes;" I never signed up for this garbage. I semi-appreciate those messages that put the term "ADV." in the subject line. I delete those right away.
Possibly the most insidious effect of pornography and purposefully non-procreative sex is consistently overlooked at our peril though it provides an excellent explanation as to why Hollywood agit-prop artists drape the likes of Larry Flynt in an American flag as an icon of dumbed down "Free Speech".
Both porn and contraception destroy man's natural sovereignty over himself and reduce him to a Thing to be Manipulated.
Is it any wonder our government is only too interested in our being consistently conditioned thus?
Best regards.
I don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do, it's like CSPAN, music programs, special programs, news programs.....
I didn't even know where NBC was on our satellite dish - had to look it up. I enjoy watching some of the Olympic shows. HOWEVER, I absolutely cannot believe some of the garbage shows that are advertised between the regularly scheduled program. Who would want to sit down and watch that stuff?
"If decent human beings don't stand up and fight for our foundational culture, our republic will be lost, because as moral values are tossed aside, the government will be there to regulate the behavior produced by those loss of morals. A climate of immorality only gives the government an opportunity to expand."
You're quite right about that. Freedom lovers should pay careful attention to the last sentence of your paragraph.
I was thinking the same thing when I wrote this piece.
I think you're blaiming the wrong people for the "perversion" of the language. In America gay has meant homosexual pretty much forever who knows where it came from, probably a slur to start with. As for "adult content" unfortunately your definitions show that it is the right term; the subject matter is for people who have reached their legal majority. And really it came from the ratings people, not the smut peddlers. What's the warning you see on TV for a "racey" movie? Contains strong language, violence and adult situations. See, it's you church ladies that started calling smut adult stuff. And now the peddlers are using it.
Languages evolve over time. Usually the evolution is a softening. George Carlin has a great bit talking about how "shell shock" (an aggressive term that effectively transmits the horrors the person has gone through) changed to "post traumatic stress disorder" (a completey jargonized term almost completely without meaning). Everything changes like that. When Jesus was around people without legs were "cripples", by my mother's generation they were "poor unfortunates" and now they're "differently abled".
And you folks are never happy. First you complain that words are dirty (getting rid of those 7 dirty words and all). And now it's too clean?! Which words are "just right"?
Further down on this thread there's a prediction that TV (I'm presuming network TV) will have frontal nudity in 4 years. I heard that prediction too... in 1978. Don't hold your breath.
This is where the anti-contraception folks lose me. How am I losing sovereignty over myself by controlling whether or not I procreate? If anything I am extending my svoereignty over myself because I am now controlling something that used to be part of me when it is no longer inside of me.
Oh, and you better check your non-G rated history books. People have been having sex for fun for a VERY long time, and it's a good guess that the VAST majority of sexual acts that humans have performed on this planet were done for fun not to procreate. God made sex fun for a reason. If that reason was to tempt people into sin then God needs a shrink. I'm betting He made it fun because He actually likes us and wants us to enjoy life (either that or He's tricking us into having kids). God also allowed me to reach adulthood without an urge to breed. I don't see a problem with using technology to combine those two gifts.
By removing the natural consequence and potency of your actions, you deconstruct the judgment and will applied thereto.
I think anyone (particularly good Catholics who exercise restraint as a means of natural family planning) is well aware of the scientific proofs that sexual relations are more often than not "non-procreative".
Sex is ordered BOTH to that deeply intimate giving of self (the WHOLE self) to each other and -- by its nature -- is procreative.
As an example ... who is the stronger-willed man?
The fellow who seeks out disease-free and contraceptive saturated sexual partners so that none of his actions have any consequences and he can rut with the freedom -- if not the natural consequences -- of dumb animal sex?
Or is it the man who exercises the discerning and discipline necessary to limit his sexual union to a woman with whom he enjoys the absolutely full measure of giving and taking that is sexual union in no way divested of its natural potency?
As for your self-control "example" that is so typically full of judgmental condemning BS with no actual understanding of what goes on. The majority of people using birth control are not trolling the world looking for quick bangers, those people usually aren't bright enough to use protection (if they were VD and abortions would be history since it's the trollers that are the big transmitters). The majority of people using birth control are people in long term relationships, often within the bounds of marriage, who want to have a normal sexual relationship with the person they love, but they don't want some kid screwing things up; they're happy with how their life works childless and don't feel a need to change it at the whims of random chance.
There is no question, however, that the advent of chemical and surgical contraception which rendered the notion of procreative sex somehow medieval has resulted in the breakdown of marriage, increase in promiscuity, reduction of woman to an object for self-gratification, the disordering of natural human relationships including that of the person to himself and -- possibly most dangerous of all --
place[d] a dangerous weapon ... in the hands of those public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies (urgent situations).”As we have since discovered, eugenics didn’t disappear with Nazi racial theories in 1945. Population control policies are now an accepted part of nearly every foreign aid discussion. The massive export of contraceptives, abortion and sterilization by the developed world to developing countries -- frequently as a prerequisite for aid dollars and often in direct contradiction to local moral traditions -- a thinly disguised form of population warfare and cultural re-engineering.
Why? Because the "progress" you cite in man's ability to manipulate reality is not true progress but rather a deconstruction of BOTH the sexual act AND the man's sovereignty over his own actions and a degradation of our human nature.
And we have sex without risk of pregnancy. It's just a natural progression of mankind constantly expanding the boundaries of his control.
You need to rethink who is controlling whom here and whether the divesting of sexual union from its essentially procreative aspect results in the dumbing down or strengthening of human regard for sex.
They don't call it "population control" for nothing, Discostu ... we are but long pigs suitable for culling and sterilization like any other dumb animal population.
The fact we've managed to view human life in strictly materialistic/economic terms, the fact we accept the notion it's better to be dead than unwanted and the fact that we ignore all of the evidence suggesting that our government is intensely interested conditioning us to the precepts of population control should alarm you.
We need to make population and family planning household words. We need to take the sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be used by militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather, are using it as a political stepping stone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter.
Rep. George Bush, 1969
Most important is that legislation be recognized as ... a health-care service mechanism and not a population control mechanism.
Rep. George Bush, 1970
"While the agencies participating in this study have no specific recommendations to propose on abortion, the following issues are believed important and should be considered in the context of a global population strategy...Certain facts about abortion need to be appreciated:
- "-- No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion". [Page 182]
- " -- Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today." [Page 183]
- " -- It would be unwise to restrict abortion research for the following reasons: 1) The persistent and ubiquitous nature of abortion. 2) Widespread lack of safe abortion techniques..." [Page 185]
Population control came to Puerto Rico in the early 1900s [...] The Neo-Malthusian program was openly eugenic--to improve, what the WASPs perceived as "inferior human stock" (principally through direct sterilizations). (11) This island served as the United States' first experimental model for "the intelligent and scientific control of population," the key element of which was the "education of the people and overcoming the prejudices of the Catholic Church." (12)
The rationale for the Neo-Malthusian campaign in Puerto Rico was candidly expressed by Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, a physician at San Juan's Presbyterian Hospital, operated under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation:
The Porto (Puerto) Ricans ... are beyond doubt the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever inhabiting this sphere .... What the island needs is not public health work but a tidal wave or something to totally exterminate the population. I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more .... (13)President Roosevelt made his contribution to the on-going dialogue concerning Puerto Rico's "population problem" by jokingly telling Charles Taussig, his advisor on Caribbean affairs:
"I guess the only solution is to use the methods which Hitler used effectively." It is all very simple and painless Roosevelt said--"you have people pass through a narrow passage and then there is the brrrr of an electrical apparatus. They stay there for twenty seconds and from then on they are sterile." (14)
In 1977 Robert McNamara, as head of the World Bank, saw in population growth the "gravest issue" short of nuclear war and in a particularly prophetic statement lamented that the decisions that had led to this growth were"not in the exclusive control of a few governments but rather in the literally hundreds of millions of individual parents who will determine the outcome."
This is not to say that population control has made no headway in Asia. Pushed incessantly by figures like the World Bank's McNamara, the idea that nations could become rich only if they moved to control their population rates became an article of faith among Western and Western- educated intellectuals in Asia-a faith backed up by aid dollars linked to the willingness of recipient countries to develop control measures. In the Philippines, for example, the U.S. Agency for International Development obtained a provision in the Marcos-era constitution granting the state authority over population levels. The Western missionary fervor once directed at Christianizing Asia has been channeled, in the second half of the twentieth century, into proselytizing for fewer Asians. -Population and the Wealth of Nations
Of course, the World Bank is not technically a US government office. But before joining the World Bank, this fellow was none other than Robert S. MacNamara, US Secretary of Defense.
You're defending the indefensible here -- how can it be remotely OK to send e-mails to my kids promising things like "extreme farmyard action?"
1] Prostitution--One wrestler is named "The Godfather" and he comes out with the "Ho train." These women wear very little. A wrestler will occasionally brag that the Godfather had hooked him up and it was "all good."
2] Homosexuality--One pair of wrestlers are "friendly" with each other and their preference toward each other is stressed.
3] Degredation of women--The daughter Stephanie is constantly greeted by a crowd chanting "slut" at her. There is also the fact that all the women on the show look like porn stars, with the exception of one, and even she wears her pants pulled down so low that you can see her g-string.
4] Violence against women--I've seen several women get power bombed by guys, or hit. I understand its just pretend, but youth are impressionable.
5] Degredation of human beings--One wrestler gives what's called a "stink face." He's this big Samoan guy with a huge rear-end. He wears one of those sumo outfits--then when his opponent falls down in the corner he goes over and smashes his butt in the guys/girls face. That is perverse--Jerry Springer type garbage.
This show comes on 3 times a week and is sold out everywhere it goes. This is what we're up against. We've got to take back our roots and stand up for truth before we collapse internally.
If you like porn, that's your problem --- not mine. As where you hang out on the internet is no concern of mine.
The problem here is that perverts are spamming decent folks like me with their pornographic garbage. We didn't sign up for it, we don't want it, and we don't it want it in our faces.
You said, "I almost never smut-spam." Hey buddy, you should never spam --- smut spam or regular spam, it's all garbage to me.
"Pretty much forever" is patently incorrect. Even up to the 30s and 40s, kid's books used the term to denote carefree happiness.
So it has not "meant homosexual" except for the past few decades, at most.
It sure isn't adult, it's juvenile...it's sophmoric, it's adolescent, it's all anything but adult.
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