Posted on 11/11/2005 7:16:29 PM PST by wagglebee
PS. I will even recommend the nations for her: Norway (68.2% Internet connected), South Korea (65.2% Internet connected), and New Zealand (77.7% Internet connected). There. A few well-connected populations that match with the U.S. in penetration (68.7%) and represent a spectrum of the world.
Let's find the same trends there and then we'll talk.
What is the percentage of men who become "dysfunctional" as it were because of porn addiction? I didn't notice that in the article.
Isn't Kennedy on this sub-committee?
That's more than enough to be scary
and damage the credibility of the
entire group.
I didn't notice that you were already on this thread when I pinged you, you moth to the flame you.
Agree. There is a difference indeed.
You should make me absolute dictator. For life, of course. I'll fix everything up, you betcha.
Sounds like a plan. :)
I don't believe in half-measures :)
hehe - the irony is that I'm supposed to be reading an essay on Christian sexual mores in Late Antiquity.
How the U.S. Senate has any moral authority with the way they behave is what I find astounding. That's like asking Clinton to guard the Playboy Mansion.
I'm all in favor of protection at libraries, schools and areas where children frequent. The big problem, however, is that much internet porn exists outside the boundaries of the United States so the only way to regulate it is to regulate (and tax) the internet itself and I am very much opposed to that.
I also think it is narrow-minded to view pornography as the culprit when teenaged girls dress like hookers and broadcast tv is filled with graphic sexual topics - daytime and nighttime. We've slid halfway down the slippery slope and it will only get worse unless the people, themselves, decide to right it. It can't be done from external forces - only from within, meaning a spiritual reawakening.
Well America might be late antiquity redux, or maybe not, so maybe this thread is relevant to your studies, or maybe it isn't. Was late antiquity cracking down on porn, or giving up the good fight? When exactly was late antiquity? I think that about sums up the issue in a nutshell.
Flipped the finger? Would have been meaningless to the terrorist. Should have given him the thumbs up. To us it means OK but to them it is quite offensive.
Praise the Lord that the federal government wants to decide what's best for me, again.
Another, "I'm from the federal government and I'm here to help save you from yourself." Oh joy.
What was that about getting the government off my back? I remember something about that from a Republican president in the 80's. I think that was the last time I heard it.
Let me look on my own terms. What chaps me bad are these annoying sex ad pop-ups which screw up my browser and tangle my searches. If thoughts could kill there would be lots of dead pervert advertisors. This has to stop.
BTW, I did look into the topic we'd discussed further and found one article in particular that very nicely summarizes the spectrum of recent scholarship in that regard. Fertility control in the classical world: was there an ancient fertility transition?
Here's the money quote (bold emphasis added):
Two points stand out from the recent explosion of demographic analysis of the classical world, particularly that associated with Frier and Scheidel. The first is that much of classical demography, originally deduced from literary sources and burial inscriptions, remains essentially unchanged. Mortality levels, marriage ages, and the age gap between spouses calculated 40 and even 100 years ago remain largely unchallenged, and certainly within the bounds set by recent scholarship. The second point is that, by drawing on new demographic techniques developed for use in the developing world or in analysing the modern Western demographic transition, researchers have been able to adduce limited but important findings tending to show that the Roman population was probably a near-stationary, near-natural-fertility regime. There was probably no decline and fall of the Roman Empire's population. Although urbanization certainly declined from the later centuries of the Empire to the Dark Ages towards the end of the first millennium, total population may not have followed a similar path. It may have remained stationary for a thousand years or followed the gentle upward exponential growth curve that McEvedy and Jones (1978) alone posited, with subsequent agreement by Maddison (2001). Certainly, it was periodically subject to mortality crises, such as resulted from the Antonine plague of the late second century, probably measles (Scheidel 2002), and the Justinian plague of the sixth century, almost certainly bubonic.
If I could remember the person who was posting all that nonsense before, I would pass the link along so maybe they could improve their research.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Okay, imagine this: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin (I know, some of you think he was a rake, but if you've read his autobiography you are familiar with his philosophy of life), John Adams, Patrick Henry, to name a few. Now imagine them entering an "Adult" porn store, or sitting in front of a computer for the first time, and seeing the plethora of graphic pornography on the internet.
What do you think they would say? "Great! This is exactly what the First Amendment is for!" or "My God in Heaven! Is this what the Republic has sunk to?"
The First Amendment was never meant to protect pornography. I personally know a number of people whose lives have destroyed be pornography. And that includes some children.
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Good post, jeremiah.
I'm bookmarking this thread for tomorrow. Then I'll give those Libertine Libertarians some HELL.
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