Predators got porn??
How do they see what the chick Predator is trying to show, with those invisibility suits?
Posted on 05/19/2005 11:05:47 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
On February 2, 2003, when seven-year-old Danielle van Dam disappeared from her family home in the middle of the night, every mother’s nightmare was played out on national television for almost a month while authorities searched for the girl. When Danielle’s body was found at the end of that month, the police and prosecutors discovered a frightening story about a neighbor of Danielle’s who had computer files filled with child pornography and even a sickening cartoon video of the rape of a young girl.
According to a report by Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, on the link between pornography and violent sex crimes, the prosecutor in the Danielle van Dam case said “The video represented [the defendant’s] sexual fantasies and inspired the abduction, rape, and murder of Danielle.” According to Raymond Pierce, a retired NYPD detective who worked on the sex-crimes squad for many years and is now a criminal-profiling consultant, about 80 percent of rapists and serial killers are heavy pornography users. I was a victim of an attempted rape by a disturbed man who turned out to be involved in pornography.
May is Victims of Pornography Month. Today Senator Sam Brownback (R., Kan.), Rep. Katherine Harris (R., Fla.), Rep. Joe Pitts (R., Pa.), and leaders from the values community will participate in a summit to explore the troubling connection between pornography and violence against women and children.
Florida attorney general Charlie Crist advises parents that “we must never lose sight of the fact that sexual predators make the online world a dangerous place for innocent children. Parents must be ever-vigilant to make sure their children are not exposed to images and messages that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago.” Crist warns that we cannot allow the Internet to be a “pipeline for pornography aimed at children.” But while parents can use available means to protect their children when they are in their own homes, there is a cultural climate surrounding our children that threatens them the way Danielle van Dam was threatened. Because of the availability of pornography online, there is no way of knowing what lurks in the hearts of our neighborhoods.
More needs to be done to evaluate the connection between violent predatory behavior and pornography, and to crack down on these violent predators. Police and law-enforcement officers across the country report brutal instances in which those addicted to pornography utilized its sadistic images on their female and child victims.
Just this past February, the New York Times reported a story about a teenage babysitter who had raped three young children he was watching in their homes. According to the Times, his pattern was to watch pornographic videos with the oldest of the children, a 12-year-old boy, and intimidate them all by torturing them with a knife and threats to their family members. Perhaps one of the most notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy, participated in an interview with Dr. James Dobson shortly before he was executed. In the interview, Bundy explained, “I’ve lived in prison for a long time now. And I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence like me. And without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography — without exception, without exception — deeply influenced and consumed by an addiction to pornography.”
Since 1956, the Supreme Court has made clear that the First Amendment does not protect obscene materials. If we know from the perpetrators themselves how obscenity contributes to violence against women and children, what can we do?
We need to fund more studies of the addiction to pornography and its effects on violent behavior. Parents can install filters on any computer used by children and keep the family computer in a central location, not in a child's bedroom or someplace where parents might not regularly see it. We need to demand tougher law enforcement on the state and federal level. The Bush administration is stepping up federal enforcement of obscenity laws. This is a good first step. Contact the U.S. attorney for your district and ask what they are doing to enforce the laws. We need tougher state penalties against both possession and distribution of child porn and passing any kind of pornographic material to kids. Experts indicate that pornography is often used by pedophiles to break down the resistance of child victims. Parents should check out their state’s penalties for child rape and make sure offenders are going to jail and staying there for these offenses. Florida, for example, just passed a tough new law after the tragedy involving Jessica Lunsford, whose killer was a recently released violent offender. We should pass legislation to address the threat to children on the Internet. This includes chat sites, websites, spam, and peer-to-peer networks. Peer-to-Peer networks are of particular concern because they are widely visited by kids and offer porn for free without any age verification.
As Rep. Katherine Harris has pointed out, "Pornography displays human beings as objects, obliterating the wall between an individual's sick fantasies and the compulsion to act upon them. Often, the monsters who hurt women and children start with this malignant desensitizer." We need to all work together to find better ways to protect women and children against this violence.
LOL! That's a new one for me. I'm not into censorship so that makes me a Marxist? Just wait until they come for your choice of books or websites, XR7; you'll be singing an entirely different tune.
This is where you keep getting it wrong, over and over again. I've never said I wanted unlmited access to pornography. What I want is intelligent discourse about where the lines should be drawn. Hard and fast lines, not something nebulous like "back to 1957". I want to know where folks stand, what exactly would have to go etc.
Because it destroys your argument that any graphic representation of sexuality -porn- is inherently "lustful" and therefore biblically proscribed.
Who determines when craving becomes "inordinate?". Your definition of lust places limits on how much one can enjoy the act, in marriage - absurd.
Look up "inordinate."
Look up "pretentious".
Predators got porn??
How do they see what the chick Predator is trying to show, with those invisibility suits?
Guess I should have left well enough alone. They got my "number" again. Two showed up in my mailbox the next morning from Sussanah and Andrew, offering the usual enhancement to an anatomical piece of equipment I don't possess.
Got a couple of more of those since then
More disburbing is that I have gotten a couple child porn spams. I've never gotten those before. Guess I'll have to pester some people I prefer to leave alone about the second one.
People into porno are about as bad as sexual predators. Both also feel what they're doing is morally acceptable.
A mirror is a "graphic representation of sexuality"? It's "pornography"?
graph·ic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (grfk)The essence of pornography is the fact that it is a tangible representation of sexual imagery.
adj. also graph·i·cal (--kl)1.
a.) Of or relating to written representation.
b.) Of or relating to pictorial representation.
por·nog·ra·phy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pôr-ngr-f)Who determines when craving becomes "inordinate?".
n.1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
Who determines when a craving for a Twinkie becomes inordinate? The determination depends on particular circumstances. The difficulty in determining the dividing line doesn't obviate the difference in principle between ordinate and inordinate desire.
Your definition of lust places limits on how much one can enjoy the act, in marriage - absurd.
If it's so absurd, then it should be easy for you to explain to me why lust is impossible in marriage.
The difference, as you well know, is that everyone involved in the production and consumption of legal pornography is a consenting adult.
Comparing private, consensual adult viewing of pornography to rape or child molestation just makes you look foolish.
I agree with you. Porn is like any other adult vice- it can lead to bad consequences for the individuals involved, but since they are adults such consequences are their's to live with.
Certainly it's possible - in a dysfunctional, pseudo-marriage.
In a loving marriage, where both partners are in agreement, only Catholics would posit that you can be too hot for each other.
The difficulty in determining the dividing line doesn't obviate the difference in principle between ordinate and inordinate desire.
That's an elegant sentence. Only on FR.
Reality shows this to be an utterly false statement.
Obviously God gave us the freedom to commit harmful, gross, immoral and self destructive acts. If not, they'd be impossible.
Under Lucifer's plan, rejected by God, all such acts would have been impossible, thus guaranteeing the "salvation" of all.
Of course, free will, one of God's greatest gifts, goes right out the window.
Here's a simple example. When couples choose to sterilize themselves temporarily (using "birth control") and engage in intercourse, they are lying with their bodies, on the one hand, acting in "union" but at the same time rejecting the natural flowering of that expression. Such a sexual union is like masturbation in that it is a selfish, self-directed choice for the pleasure of intercourse without regard for the proper object of intercourse, similar to binging and purging.
People into porno, like you, probably, will try to justify it in many ways.
The problem with pornography is that you constantly have to be "upping" the sexual level of the photos, in order to get the same satisfaction.
It's just like a drug.
This is why many people eventually get into gay or child porn.
The title could as easily read: "Watching baseball and sexual predators; a disturbing link."
You can create a link between anything popular and anything unsavory. Doesn't mean the link is scientifically valid.
My money is on childhood sexual abuse by a sexual predator as the leading cause for creating sexual predators.
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