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Porn Is Like Heroin In The Brain
Focus On The Family ^ | Nov. 19, 2004 | Stuart Shepard

Posted on 11/19/2004 3:07:51 PM PST by Lindykim

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To: Experiment 6-2-6

If it were burned in our brains, why do people go looking for more, and more, and more...

If you've seen one naked woman, you pretty much want to see them all.


21 posted on 11/19/2004 3:28:45 PM PST by anonymous_user
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To: oldleft
Banning pornographic material? Goodbye freedom of speech!

The New Deal Commerce Clause doesn't recognize individual rights. Witness the Assault Weapons Ban.

22 posted on 11/19/2004 3:28:50 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Lindykim
"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."

No, it isn't. In fact they aren't remotely alike. When was the last time anyone overdosed from porn? When was the last time porn was used as an analgesic? Cause pulmonary edema? When did withdrawal ever cause headache, diarrhea, vomiting, convulsions?

Let's keep our perspective here, please.

23 posted on 11/19/2004 3:30:07 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: hleewilder
As long as nobody's getting hurt, and there are no underage children involved, who cares?

A disturbingly large number on both the far left and far right.

24 posted on 11/19/2004 3:30:29 PM PST by ThinkDifferent (A plan is not a litany of complaints)
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To: Lindykim

Its harmful for young minds... like tobacco and alcohol and other adult pleasures.


25 posted on 11/19/2004 3:30:55 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mowkeka

I meant...according to your bogus definition of morality.


26 posted on 11/19/2004 3:31:43 PM PST by mowkeka
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To: Dead Corpse

Yes... a lot of pics of scantily dressed babes have been posted on FR. Quick, arrest Jim Robinson and ban Free Republic for posting "heroin on the brain!" Hehehehe


27 posted on 11/19/2004 3:32:45 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: oldleft

agreed, keep the government out...yet if it's a sexually motivated crime, like rape it could be seen as probable cause


28 posted on 11/19/2004 3:32:51 PM PST by tai-pan (mainstream WHAT?)
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To: Lindykim

What crap. I agree that porn is a problem but it is an individual matter that individuals need to resolve. It pisses me off to no end that Focus on The Family is pushing a legislation that can easily be turned against Christians and conservatives:

Example the First:

"Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover described how Christianity is analogous to cigarettes, noting that "it is a very carefully designed delivery system for evoking a tremendous flood within the brain of endogenous opioids." It's time, he added, to stop regarding it as simply a form of expression. "Modern science," Satinover said, "allows us to understand that the underlying nature of an addiction to Christianity is chemically nearly identical to a heroin addiction."


Example the Second:

Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover described how talk radio is analogous to cigarettes, noting that "it is a very carefully designed delivery system for evoking a tremendous flood within the brain of endogenous opioids." It's time, he added, to stop regarding it as simply a form of expression. "Modern science," Satinover said, "allows us to understand that the underlying nature of an addiction to talk radio is chemically nearly identical to a heroin addiction."

Here I am a Christian conservative and I am opposed to this because I KNOW it is a matter of time before it is applied to me.


29 posted on 11/19/2004 3:33:03 PM PST by PeterFinn ("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM, they can hate us all they want.)
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To: Lindykim
I have to agree 100%. The sexual behavior the porn industry promotes is very perverted and way beyond normal. As far are the imagery, yes, I can recall quite a bit of the garbage mine eyes have seen. I'd rather be pure considering the crap I've had to endure.

I suppose the similarity is if each of us could recall the details of our first sexual encounter or extreme violent moment. Porn may have less of an indelible nature, but it does put our sex drive on warp speed (mine at least).

There's a difference between porn and tasteful art, and neither should be subsidized. The porn industry should be kept on a very very short leash as it is (and I prefer it to be gone completely). Scientific discovery (like researching the pornographic history of criminals) should reveal the true nature of porn. Likewise, we'd know rather than accept with wisdom the suffering men and mostly women suffer after abortion (of which porn entrepreneurs have always championed).

I hope more women drive this reckless sexual behavior away from what should be model manhood. Eventually, those that vehemently defend all porn of all kinds will expose themselves as the perverts they are.
30 posted on 11/19/2004 3:34:00 PM PST by SaltyJoe
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To: oldleft

In order for true conservatism to work as it should, the citizens should be morally informed and ethical. Such citizens would know better than to allow porn to proliferate in open society where it acts as a poison.


The market is amoral, and will produce anything for sale, even snake oil concoctions, unless there are morality based constraints placed upon it.


31 posted on 11/19/2004 3:34:48 PM PST by Lindykim
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To: Lindykim

What truly ignorent fatheads. I expect the Dems. will continue to push for censorship for the next four years so they can then blame republicans for censoring the airwaves and internet.

It is the Dems. on the FCC that are the biggest sponsors of censorship.


32 posted on 11/19/2004 3:34:48 PM PST by orangelobster
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To: trek

Reminds me of an old joke:

Q: What's the difference between a Christian Activist group and a pervert?

A: A pervert looks at pornography alone while the Christians form a committee and then look at it.


33 posted on 11/19/2004 3:35:27 PM PST by PeterFinn ("Tolerance" means WE have to tolerate THEM, they can hate us all they want.)
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To: oldleft

There has been a lot of discussion about the relevancy of this post. I think it's very relevant. You guys want to critisize the "moral right"...but who do you think got George Bush re-elected? And didn't George Bush agree to a Pornography Protected Day?
The point is pornography is very, very addictive. And most of the porno out there isn't your cute, bunnyrabbit Playboy stuff. Some of it is cruel, disturbing and outright dangerous.


34 posted on 11/19/2004 3:35:56 PM PST by mowkeka
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To: orangelobster

If its Nicolette Sheridan on "Desperate Housewives" don't look or you'll go blind. :)


35 posted on 11/19/2004 3:36:48 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Wolfie
"That image is in your brain forever," she explained.

Ding! BS Alert!

I beg to differ. I still, at 41, have perfect photographic memory of porn that I found when I was 12.

36 posted on 11/19/2004 3:37:05 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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To: PeterFinn
A pervert looks at pornography alone while the Christians form a committee and then look at it.

LOL!

37 posted on 11/19/2004 3:37:36 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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To: 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.

The actual figure is 40% of clergy are porn addicts. Still too high.

38 posted on 11/19/2004 3:38:27 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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To: BlueNgold

If you're banned, you'll go out a hero!


39 posted on 11/19/2004 3:38:50 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I got it saved.)
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To: mowkeka

Dems. were on a big censorship kick prior to the election, just as they were on a pro-draft bandwagon.

Republicans believe in free speech. Let the dems. continue to be the anti-free speech party.


40 posted on 11/19/2004 3:39:27 PM PST by orangelobster
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