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[canuckistan]

Speaking of Conservatives...anyone familiar with the "Focus On The Family" organization?

Just as sanctimonious, hateful, and intolerant as the rest of those movements. They're big in Colorado and their pet project these days is trying to convince everyone being gay is an abomination

I saw a great bumper sticker a few days ago:

"FOCUS ON YOUR OWN DAMN FAMILY!!!"

Oui!

[RACETRAITOR]

Every bit of research I've read about porn points to the conclusion that it makes people safer.

Once I was working security at an airport hotel. There was a drunk dude who was causing a bit of trouble. We sent him to his room and helped him turn on some pay-per-view porn. We didn't hear from him again that night.

I call it a monogamy-aid.

[Delirium's Brother]

[mindmetoo]

I do believe the Bush agenda before 9-11 was to continue the Edwin Meese crack down on porn. That's why Bush's Attorney General used to have the curtains drawn on the topless lady justice statue. Hard to argue nudity = porn and never art when you're standing in front of a nude work of art.

If you recall, Meese got 7-11 to pull Playboy and Penthouse off the shelves after he wrote them a letter basically giving them a heads up. It went a bit like "we're doing a report on child porn... we believe Playboy and Penthouse are gateways to child porn... so if 7-11 doesn't want to be associated with pushing child porn... stop now."

7-11 dutifully complied in an America very much in love with The Gipper.

[JongnoGuru]

I remember years and years ago staying at yogwons in Korea that would pump prawnographic movies into the rooms for free. No selection, of course, anyone interested would have to watch whatever they happened to be showing. Prawn films were completely illegal in the country, though yogwons would often have them. Once I was on a commuter bus for Korean government employees, and the driver had a hard-core prawn movie playing on the bus TV. I was surprised, but the Koreans packed onto that bus, the young women civil servants included, were all very ho-hum about it. Nobody commented, and some of them watched it with a look of boredom. Maybe it was a rerun of one they'd already seen on a previous long commute home. ("Oh, not The Truckdriver & the Hitchhiker again! ")

And I was surprised once again to find prawn suddenly available all over hotels in the West. Why the uproar now? Why didn't religious or other groups opposed to it put their foot down long ago, when it first started?

[Delirium's Brother]

[RACETRAITOR]

[mindmetoo]

[fiveeagles]

[huffdaddy]

[fiveeagles]

Oh, I thought he wanted some help. There's no research on it? I thought there would be.

Here, how about this?

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=46523&highlight=

The Documented Effects of Pornography

11/90

In the September issue of The Forerunner (Vol. X, No. VI ), we examined the relationship between pornography and violent crime in an article entitled "Mass Murder and Pornography - Are They Related?"

Since the publication of the September issue, we have received a number of responses challenging the claim that pornography and violent crime are related. These responses implored us to use real, honest and acceptable facts in defending this position. As a follow up to the many questions generated by this article, we have decided to give a more complete overview of the research that has been done in this area.

The Effects of Pornography

Defenders of pornography argue that it is not harmful, and thus should not be regulated or banned. Citing the 1970 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, they conclude that there is no relationship between exposure to erotic material and subsequent behavior. But two subsequent decades of research based on the increased production of more explicit and violent forms of pornography has shown the profound effects pornography can have on human behavior.

Psychologist Edward Donnerstein (University of Wisconsin) found that brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior. Male viewers tend to be more aggressive towards women, less responsive to pain and suffering of rape victims, and more willing to accept various myths about rape.1

Dr. Dolf Zimmerman and Dr. Jennings Bryant showed that continued exposure to pornography had serious adverse effects on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes toward women in particular. They also found that pornography desensitizes people to rape as a criminal offense.2

These researchers also found that massive exposure to pornography encourages a desire for increasingly deviant materials which involve violence, like sadomasochism and rape.3

Feminist author Diana Russell notes in her book Rape and Marriage the correlation between deviant behavior (including abuse) and pornography. She also found that pornography leads men and women to experience conflict, suffering, and sexual dissatisfaction.4

Researcher Victor Cline (University of Utah) has documented in his research how men become addicted to pornographic materials, begin to desire more explicit or deviant material, and end up acting out what they have seen.5

According to Charles Keating of Citizens for Decency Through Law, research reveals that 77 percent of child molesters of boys and 87 percent of child molesters of girls admitted imitating the sexual behavior they had seen modeled in pornography.

Sociologists Murray Straus and Larry Baron (University of New Hampshire) found that rape rates are highest in states which have high sales of sex magazines and lax enforcement of pornography laws.6

Michigan state police detective Darrell Pope found that of the 38,000 sexual assault cases in Michigan (1956-1979), in 41 percent of the cases pornographic material was viewed just prior to or during the crime. This agrees with research done by psychotherapist David Scott who found that "half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim."

The Final Report of the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography lists a full chapter of testimony (197-223) from victims whose assailants had previously viewed pornographic materials. The adverse effects range from physical harm (rape, torture, murder, sexually transmitted disease) to psychological harm (suicidal thoughts, fear, shame, nightmares).

The Facts on Pornography

A day-care director, now serving three years for three counts of first-degree sexual assault, confessed the he had "started picking up pornographic materials occasionally, going to bookstores ... no one knew, not even my wife ... now I do recognize fully the shocking facts about pornography and how it will draw you into its clutches away from God into sinful fantasies ..."

Multiplied incidents like the above graphically illustrate how the $8 billion-per-year porn industry has carved inroads into American life:

* Nearly 900 theaters show X-rated films and more than 15,000 "adult" bookstores and video stores offer pornographic material, outnumbering McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. by a margin of at least three to one.

* Each year, nearly 100 full-length pornographic films provide estimated annual box office sales of $50 million.

* Approximately 70% of the pornographic magazines sold eventually end up in the hands of minors.

* About 1.2 million children are annually exploited through child pornography and prostitution.7

God's Purpose in Sex

The tragedy of sex apart from God's ideal standard was no more forcefully presented than by this young lady who testified in Chicago before the 1986 Commission on Pornography:

"I am a former Playboy Bunny ... I never questioned the morality of becoming a Playboy Bunny because the magazine was accepted at home. [During my time with Playboy] I experienced everything from date-rape to physical abuse to group sex and finally to fantasizing homosexuality as I read Playboy magazine.

"I was extremely suicidal and sought psychiatric help for the eight years I lived in a sexually promiscuous fashion. There was no help for me until I changed my lifestyle to be a follower of Jesus Christ and obeyed the biblical truths including no premarital sex."

The agony of this young lady - and others like her - could have been avoided through an understanding of and obedience to God's purposes in sex.

Pornography attacks the dignity of men and women created in the image of God.8 It also distorts God's gift of sex which should be shared only within the bounds of marriage.9 And it frequently promotes sexual perversion (rape, incest, sodomy, bondage, torture, pedophilia) which is condemned by God.

From a biblical perspective, sexual intercourse is exclusively reserved for marriage for the following purposes:

* First, it establishes the "one-flesh" union.10

* Second, it provides for sexual intimacy within the marriage bond. The use of the word "know" indicates a profound meaning of sexual intercourse.11

* Third, sexual intercourse is for the mutual pleasure of husband and wife.12

* Fourth, sexual intercourse is for procreation.13

The Bible also warns against the misuse of sex. Premarital and extramarital sex is condemned.14 Even thoughts of sexual immorality (often fed by pornographic material) are condemned.15 Various forms of sexual perversion are also condemned in the Bible.16

Contrary to popular opinion, the Christian lifestyle of purity and abstaining from premarital and extramarital sex is not repressive or legalistic. People who have adopted this standard of purity can testify to the liberating power that it has had in their lives. Sexual purity not only is a defense against sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, but it also can help to bring about stable and happy marriage and family relationships.

In hoping to live our lives according to biblical standards and obtain the happy benefits of this lifestyle, we must do two things. First, we must keep pure by fleeing immorality and thinking on those things which are pure.17 Second, we must work to remove this sexual perversion of pornography from society.

If you have any questions or comments about this subject, please contact us at The Forerunner, P.O. Box 4103, Gainesville, FL 32613

1 Pornography and Violence Against Women, 1980.
2 "Pornography, Sexual Callousness, and the Trivialization of Rape," Journal of Communication, 1982.
3 "The Effect of Erotica Featuring Sadomasochism and Bestiality of Motivated Inter-Male Aggressions," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1981. 4 Rape and Marriage, 1982.
5 "Where Do You Draw the Line?" 1974.
6 "Legitimate Violence and Rape: A Test of the Cultural Spillover Theory," 1985.
7 Henry Boatwright, Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Board of Social Concerns. 8 Genesis 1:27. 9 1 Corinthians 7:2-3.
10 Genesis 2:24-25; Matthew 19:4-6. 11 Genesis 4:1.
12 Proverbs 5:18-19. 13 Genesis 1:28.
14 1 Corinthians 6:13-18; 1 Thessalonians 4:3.
15 Matthew 5:27-28. 16 Leviticus 18:6,23; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
17 1 Corinthians 6:18; Philippians 4:8.

[huffdaddy]

[mindmetoo]

There are lots of forms of free speech that can (probably) cause harm if employed by stupid people. Lots of people might read the Turner Diaries and get some ideas. No? Do we ban bad revenge fantasy literature boarding on racism? Freedom and prefect safety are not synonymous, last time I checked. The key is there are great laws that punish crimes caused by porn users. No? The other key is a rational human being shouldn't read porn and then go out and rape women. The state gives parents absolute control for 18 years over a human being. If the parents of America can't raise rational human beings, no law against porn is going to make a hill of difference.

They don't have porn in the middle east. Women don't get raped and abused with regularity there?

[On the other hand]

From 5 Eagles link: