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Raquel Welch: the ‘era of porn’ has ‘annihilated’ men
Life Site News ^ | March 13, 2012 | KATHLEEN GILBERT

Posted on 03/13/2012 4:05:32 PM PDT by NYer

March 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As one of America’s most revered sex symbols, she might not be the first celebrity to jump to mind as a crusader against pornography. But Raquel Welch, who rose to icon status as the beauty in the leather bikini from the 1966 movie One Million Years BC, told Men’s Health Magazine in an interview posted online March 8 that today’s sex-saturated culture had sapped the meaning out of sex, and damaged countless men through the pornography industry, which she called “an exploitation of the poor male’s libidos.”

“It’s just dehumanizing. And I have to honestly say, I think this era of porn is at least partially responsible for it,” Welch said of rampant sexual addiction. “Where is the anticipation and the personalization? It’s all pre-fab now. You have these images coming at you unannounced and unsolicited. It just gets to be so plastic and phony to me.

“Maybe men respond to that. But is it really better than an experience with a real life girl that he cares about? It’s an exploitation of the poor male’s libidos. Poor babies, they can’t control themselves.”

Welch criticized men’s modern habit of “equat[ing] happiness in life with as many orgasms as you can possibly pack in,” and described the concomitant loss of real masculinity in vivid terms.

“I just imagine them sitting in front of their computers, completely annihilated. They haven’t done anything, they don’t have a job, they barely have ambition anymore,” said the 71-year-old actress. “And it makes for laziness and a not very good sex partner. Do they know how to negotiate something that isn’t pre-fab and injected directly into their brain?”

When Eric Spitznagel of Men’s Health interjected that Welch’s views could come across as “prudish,” the aging sex icon said she was “fine with that” and pined for the days when bedroom fantasy was a private matter.

“Can you imagine? My fantasies were all made up on my own,” she said. “They’re ruining us with all the explanations and the graphicness. Nobody remembers what it’s like to be left to form your own ideas about what’s erotic and sexual. We’re not allowed any individuality. I thought that was the fun of the whole thing. It’s my fantasy. I didn’t pick it off the Internet somewhere.”

This isn’t the first time Welch has been critical of the culture that helped fuel her lengthy career: in a 2010 column for CNN, she lamented the effects of contraception on society, particularly its enervating effect on marriage, the “cornerstone of civilization.”

“Seriously, folks, if an aging sex symbol like me starts waving the red flag of caution over how low moral standards have plummeted, you know it’s gotta be pretty bad,” she wrote.


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KEYWORDS: communism; homosexualagenda; porn; sin
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To: Psalm 144

“It is a bigger industry than Hollywood at present.”

It’s been a few years, but I heard that porn was the only real money-maker on the internet.


61 posted on 03/14/2012 1:53:04 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: AlmaKing
Old granny hag can shut her mouth along with the majority of folks here.

Then who will be left for you to talk to, your mirror? I am in awe of your marvelous sense of civility...

62 posted on 03/14/2012 3:18:30 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: POWERSBOOTHEFAN

You know you’re getting old when you watch a soft core porn movie with a bunch of guys and at the end you find out the “cave people” the Time Travelers meet were really from Outer Space and the highlight of the movie is that their space ship was the Jupiter 2 that someone found on the back lot at the studio.


63 posted on 03/14/2012 9:36:45 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Jonty30
My experience has been rather bloody, to the point, where it’s not worth my time or attention.

you need to learn to stay away from women that time of the month

64 posted on 03/14/2012 9:46:41 AM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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