Good to see you here brother!

You do bring up a good point - reference should be supplied!

I hope you stop back from time to time. We might get this blog’s readership up to double digits!

More porn=Less rape?

Right…..

As the song says, I got some Oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you.

Dr. Eric

Write this one down.

Make a record of it.

You won’t see this again!

St. Thomas was, in this instance, blessed with naivete and a lack of imagination for the reality that has unfolded.

Yes, brothers and sisters, I just wrote that, St. Thomas pray for me.

What do I mean?

Sorry, but the sodomy that has gained respectability in this land - the gay movement - has simply ridden the wave and been the little brother of the “Straight sexual revolution.”

What came first - Playboy or Stonewall? With the divorce of love from marriage, and procreation for sex, “whatever’s clever”.

Prostitution is money for sex. Pornography is money for sex in front of a camera. Do the math.

E. Michael Jones wrote about the correlation between the rise in instances of oral rape in the aftermath of “Deep Throat” enjoying box office success.

From the article:

The bottom line on these experiments is, “More Net access, less rape.” A 10 percent increase in Net access yields about a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes.

Other studies have demonstrated that fewer and fewer rape victims are coming forward these days. What is reported and what is happening - two different things.

I guess I have seen too much other studies to conflict with the subtely implied notion America is masturbating the rape away.

“Porn as positive social reforming influence.”??? I don’t know that there is a big enough bottle of bourbon in all the world to get me to a point where I could almost believe that.

This is cold comfort.

Basically this says pornography as an industry will be less powerful because it will all be free - people will just be trading content online.

Do the math. Conservatively, we could probably average 9,000 titles per decade for the last ten years, or 90,0000 titles.

The fact that people won’t be buying new, but rather file sharing the filth brings little comfort.

These aren’t like the old “loops” of 8mm that dissolve with age and disappear. This stuff is out there forever.

Some consolation may be taken in the idea that less new product is being offered. Fewer new people may be getting roped into “staring” in them, and a little less money is going into Tony Soprano-type’s pocket.

But short of actually starting to really combat it with discussion and preaching… (it is FAR FAR TOO LATE to outlaw - one might as well try to outlaw dandelions)

Well, the fact that less is being made two things come to mind:

1) it is far more readily available for free

2) at even a quarter of the current production levels - some 11,000 titles - we would be seeing alsmot 7 “adult films” for every “Hollywood” title. 2750 new on top of as many as 90,000 or more already out there for free? I still don’t like those odds.

Parents, TALK TO YOUR SONS.

http://www.slate.com/id/2152487/

Don’t get me wrong, pornography is obviously evil. Yet I wonder about this, through analogy to prostitution. Even Augustine of Hippo held that: “What can be mentioned more sordid, more bereft of decency or more full of turpitude than prostitutes, procurers, and the other pests of that sort? Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will unsettle everything on account of lusts”. Or, as Aquinas put it: ““Take away the sewer, and you will fill the palace with pollution. Take away prostitutes from the world, and you fill it with sodomy.”

May this verse, and the whole of scripture, guide us as we navigate the internet.