[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.

[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

[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?

[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?

[Billthedrill]

"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.

[goldstategop]

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

[PeterFinn]

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.

[SaltyJoe]

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.

[orangelobster]

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.

[Helms]

Dr. Milkman and Dr. Sunderwirth, in their book Craving for Ecstasy [8] , discuss neurobiochemical responses in the brain during the pursuit of self-gratification. They discuss arousal, satiation, and fantasy. Arousal is often associated with the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and dopamine, satiation with gamma-aminobutyric acid and endorphins, and fantasy with serotonin. Dr. Schneider states, "It is important to observe that sex can easily fit into any or all of the foregoing categories, making it an extremely powerful mood-altering activity." [9] Thus, although a person does not get "addicted" to pornography per se, they may get hooked on the mood-altering experience facilitated and triggered by the use of pornography.

http://www.contentwatch.com/learn_center/article.php?id=101

[PISANO]

While I may agree that PORN is addictive like acohol or drugs etc. I also believe that everyone is responsible for their OWN actions and thereby all this nonsense trying to make everything known to man an ADDICTION and thereby excusable is so much CRAP.

Senator Brownback get on with reforming the tax code and stay out this garbage.