Porn Is Like Heroin In The Brain

Focus On The Family ^ | Nov. 19, 2004 | Stuart Shepard

[Lindykim]

ping

[Experiment 6-2-6]

burned? Is that like seared?

[Wolfie]

"That image is in your brain forever," she explained.

Ding! BS Alert!

[oldleft]

Dude, I usually try and refrain from commenting on the socially conservative posts here, but this is a little creepy.

Checking a criminals house for porn? There goes your freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

Banning pornographic material? Goodbye freedom of speech!

Why don't we let the market determine what is and is not appropriate. The point of conservatism is that the government can't adequately make decisions for the individual. I think that applies in this case.

[Dead Corpse]

We've been getting inundated with this same bogus crap over teh last few days. I think some church group may have had a council meeting or something...

[Leroy S. Mort]

Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover described how pornography is analogous to cigarettes

Regular or King Size?

[trek]

What does the government have to do with this? Isn't encouraging people to avoid morally destructive behavior the province of the church? Why aren't people focused on getting the clergy back into this fight? We do not need the secular authorities to become the final solution for every moral problem. That will inevitably lead to the final solution.

[yellowhammer]

Pictures please

[Ksnavely]

The reason that the clergy aren't in this fight is because half the preachers and ministers are also looking at this stuff on the internet.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Porn Is Like Heroin In The Brain

So is sex, sugar, caffine and chocolate, what's your point...

[ThinkDifferent]

Experts on pornography's effects on brain chemistry testified at a Senate hearing this week where a key point of discussion was whether porn is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment or addictive material that should be unlawful.

Regardless of what "addictive" means in relation to porn (people like sex, film at 11), if being addictive is sufficient cause for making something illegal, we're well over the nanny state line. Consider caffeine, for example.

[onedoug]

Marital aids.

[Viking is a verb]

"Modern science," Satinover said, "allows us to understand that the underlying nature of an addiction to pornography is chemically nearly identical to a heroin addiction."

So what? Religion does the same thing. Do you want to outlaw that too?

[Dead Corpse]

Use this next time...

[trek]

"The reason that the clergy aren't in this fight is because half the preachers and ministers are also looking at this stuff on the internet."

Well, at least it's only half. All the Senators and Congressmen are hip deep in the stuff.

[Paperdoll]

An addiction for which there is no cure; the outrageous tragedy is the introduction to young and curious minds.
Once something is SEEN, the mind can never forget, and the rest you go figure, hence the Jeff Dommers (spelling?).

[hleewilder]

They need to be more specific about what they're talking about. Child pornography, where a small, obviously young child is shown with having sex with adults should be pursued relentlessly and the perpetrators given the maximum penalty.

If, on the other hand, a woman or man is of the age of consent and can sign legally binding contracts on their own to perform in a pornographic movie or other medium, so what? As long as nobody's getting hurt, and there are no underage children involved, who cares?

[mowkeka]

Let the market determine what is and is not appropriate?
So if the market determines that the age of consent laws should go out the door, you think they should? If the market determines that child pornography is okay, I guess it is, huh? At least, according to your bogus defintion of pornography.

[BlueNgold]

I'm guessing this is a fake, and it may get me banned, but you only live once: