Epidemic Growth of PORN!!!

[Leogeddon]

'Epidemic' growth of Net porn cited

Congress must ensure that obscenity laws are enforced so that children are not exposed to pornography on the Internet, researchers and advocates of Internet safety said Tuesday.

Speaking at a briefing at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, researchers said because obscenity laws have not been upheld or enforced, illegal adult pornography has flooded and polluted the Internet.

"Today we are calling on Congress and the Department of Justice to ensure that the enforcement of our current obscenity laws is a priority," said Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough Is Enough, a Virginia-based nonprofit that works to make the Internet safer for children and families. "Our children's innocence is worth fighting for."

Under the law, illegal adult pornography is known as obscenity. Obscenity is defined as graphic material that focuses on sex or sexual violence, and it includes lewd exhibition of the genitals, close-ups of graphic sex acts and deviant activities such as group sex, bestiality and incest.

"It continues to grow and to spread and has reached epidemic proportions," Mrs. Hughes said. "We are facing a national crisis that is every bit as damaging to our citizens and our culture as the oil spill is to the Gulf and the Gulf community."

Statistics show that seven in 10 children have accidentally accessed pornography on the Internet and one in three have done so intentionally. Forty percent of children accidentally access Internet pornography through innocent word searches such as "water sports."

Statistics show that the average age of exposure is 11 years old - some start at 8 years old. Any child is too young, Mrs. Hughes said.

"Imagery definitely affects children," said Dr. Sharon Cooper, a forensic pediatrician and faculty member at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "Adult pornography is a good example of giving children unhealthy sexual images."

Pornography normalizes sexual harm, Dr. Cooper said. It shows children a lack of any kind of emotional commitment or relationship between two consensual partners, shows unprotected sexual contact and visual examples often of violent rape.

"When a child sees this image of adult pornography, the mirror neurons that are in their brain will convince them that they are actually experiencing what they are seeing," she said.

Children are very vulnerable as compared to adults because of the presence of mirror neurons in the brain, Dr. Cooper said. Mirror neurons are part of the brain that convince us that when we see something we are actually experiencing it.

According to the American Psychological Association, over the past 12 years, girls have changed in their thinking. They are beginning to see themselves as having their only value in sexuality.

"When a child sees herself only as a sexual object, she is no longer able to demand the kind of respect she deserves," Dr. Cooper said. "The new definition of 'love' these days is sending a sexually explicit picture."

Oh, how society changes... Whatever happened to Truth or Dare?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...et-porn-cited/

[plastroncafe]

OH NOES! SOMEONE PROTECT THE CHILDREN!
Because it's clear as day their own parents aren't doing it.

Don't even get me started on the whole myth of innocence...

[Leogeddon]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

OH NOES! SOMEONE PROTECT THE CHILDREN!
Because it's clear as day their own parents aren't doing it.

Don't even get me started on the whole myth of innocence...

No no, we should for some fun.
lol, yeah I agree with you, it's become part of society, hell across the globe not just North America and East Asia, it's acceptable to see people cycle through "lovers" like a woman cycles monthly!
YES, I JUST WENT THERE!

[Cowabunga Kiefer]

Wow, they're comparing this to the BP oil spill? That's low.

[Candy Kappa]

internet filter 'nuff said

[Koi]

Dude, if the kid was so innocent how would the kid know about porn let alone be on the internet looking it up? Who looks up that crud anyway?

[愛]

I remember the days that I actually had to hide my porn. Now I just leave it on the desktop.

[Toonami Tom]

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women. There are a lot of guys that look at women as sexual objects. To them it's like having a car, a video game, or a box of cookies.

It's disgusting, and on par with racism in my opinion. Everyone should see each other as equal, and have respect.

I'm not going to compromise what I know is right, just because a percentage of society is engaging in it.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women.

and video games are murder simulators

[Koi]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women. There are a lot of guys that look at women as sexual objects. To them it's like having a car, a video game, or a box of cookies.

It's disgusting, and on par with racism in my opinion. Everyone should see each other as equal, and have respect.

I'm not going to compromise what I know is right, just because a percentage of society is engaging in it.

... I never thought about it like that. That is a really interesting opinion.

I really want a box of cookies now though.

[Toonami Tom]

Originally Posted by Kiwamu The Kappa

and video games are murder simulators

In my opinion, some video games are, actually.

[Powder]

All I can say is they shouldnt worry about the porn right now. Sexual innuendos and promiscuity are all over the place. Magazines, billboards, TV, radio ads, video games. Look at the way some of the female characters in cartoons are dressed, even. Plenty of kids watch MTV which is basically sex disguised as beauty/glamour. Childrens pageants where they judge them in bathing suits, make them dance like strippers & sh!t blah blah blah... Girls are bred to be pieces of meat in this generation. As for the boys, those kids didn't find porn on accident. They looked for it, got caught and lied. They only feel interested/stimulated by being exposed to innapropriate things at a young age via TV. Don't worry about us losers who needa jack off now & then, worry about what your kids are being brainwashed into thinking is acceptable.

...As bad as the oil spill eh?

So, every time I bust a nut at pornhub I'm killing sea turtles? Damn.

[愛]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women. There are a lot of guys that look at women as sexual objects. To them it's like having a car, a video game, or a box of cookies.

It's disgusting, and on par with racism in my opinion. Everyone should see each other as equal, and have respect.

I'm not going to compromise what I know is right, just because a percentage of society is engaging in it.

Yeah, I have no clue where you get this idea from. Maybe you've been watching too much Jersey Shore.

[Spitfire]

Porn helps people relive built up sexual tension and video games help relive stress. Both are things that cause people to be violent so I hardly view them as negative.

When I was like 12 we got internet in my house and my Dad had website blockers in place on our internet. If he was using that **** 10 years ago to stop me from looking at porn wtf is stopping parents from doing that now?

[Toonami Tom]

Originally Posted by Ai

Yeah, I have no clue where you get this idea from. Maybe you've been watching too much Jersey Shore.

I have that idea based on what I have observed in society. I don't watch Jersey Shore.

People that look at pornography enjoy it, so I don't expect them to stop.

Mostly, I don't care what people do behind closed doors. I do have my opinions, and sometimes I like to tell them. I don't know why I bother tell my opinion though, it doesn't change anything. It probably just pisses people off.

[plastroncafe]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women. There are a lot of guys that look at women as sexual objects. To them it's like having a car, a video game, or a box of cookies.

It's disgusting, and on par with racism in my opinion. Everyone should see each other as equal, and have respect.

I'm not going to compromise what I know is right, just because a percentage of society is engaging in it.

Misogyny fuels the mistreatment of women, not porn.
Oh sure, you can find misogyny in porn, just as you can find it in just about anything. To try and pass them off as one in the same is to take away a woman's agency in fulfilling her own sexual desires.

What I love in this article is the idea that it's only been in the last twelve years that girls have been "programmed" to see themselves as sexual toys for the menfolk. As if Western Culture hasn't been turning that crank for the last couple of thousand years.

Hell you don't even have to go to a history book, go look at the thread: Do you prefer your women in make up. Wear too little make up and you're not desirable and unworthy of attention. Wear too much, and you're one of those horrible social outcasts: women who enjoy having sex.

[Toonami Tom]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Misogyny fuels the mistreatment of women, not porn.
Oh sure, you can find misogyny in porn, just as you can find it in just about anything. To try and pass them off as one in the same is to take away a woman's agency in fulfilling her own sexual desires.

What I love in this article is the idea that it's only been in the last twelve years that girls have been "programmed" to see themselves as sexual toys for the menfolk. As if Western Culture hasn't been turning that crank for the last couple of thousand years.

Hell you don't even have to go to a history book, go look at the thread: Do you prefer your women in make up. Wear too little make up and you're not desirable and unworthy of attention. Wear too much, and you're one of those horrible social outcasts: women who enjoy having sex.

You make some good points.

Overall, I don't know what the hell is going on here, or why I decided to post in this topic.

Most of the people here probably don't care what I think.

I'm glad this forum has the Role Playing Game section, because that's my favorite section. That's the only reason I even come to this website anymore. Once that's gone, I will be gone too. I'm just not getting any enjoyment out of the other parts of the forum. There are not any new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes to discuss with others anymore.

[愛]

Sounds like you got some self-confidence issues there, buddy. I'd take you seriously if you didn't stake your whole opinion on the cookie-cutter "everyone makes me sick" mentality. But whatever.

[Toonami Tom]

Originally Posted by Ai

Sounds like you got some self-confidence issues there, buddy. I'd take you seriously if you didn't stake your whole opinion on the cookie-cutter "everyone makes me sick" mentality. But whatever.

Self-confidence issues? Yeah, I might have some. I'm not sure about that. I'd like to be taken seriously.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Iron Man

Pornography fuels the mistreatment of women. There are a lot of guys that look at women as sexual objects.

Because women don't watch porn. Right? RIGHT?

What about gay porn? Surely that is ripe for mistreatment of women, right there.

Yeahhh.