The plague of porn...Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/21/hagelin-the-plague-of-porn/

Interesting tidbits.

"We have never before raised an entire generation on porn, so we don't know how damaging the far-reaching effects will be."

"Their research shows that the images "encourage and stimulate anger and aggression" in users and causes them to treat other people as objects"

"According to Miss Manning, the type of porn viewed today by adults and children is "deviant, vile and graphic." ..."

"How to save your family from becoming pornography's victims"


So is your decadent porn ways harmless? According to this Washington Times article, your porn ways will destroy civilization lol...must have been a slow news day

I am probably more violenly jerking off, yes

I'm pretty sure whoever wrote that watches porn.

Maybe if they didn't teach us that being naked and having sex is bad, we wouldn't have this porn problem, now would we?

True. Everyone does. At least Once. Or twice.

The Washington Times is a paper that is funded by Sun Myung Moon and run at a substantial yearly loss. The paper has editorial independence, but it is really intended to be a subsidized paper that pushes an ideological agenda, in contrast to the Washington Post or New York Times, which while commonly criticized in the US for liberalness, exist primarily to make money.

It's also not read by very many people. The article, while perhaps interesting in some ways, is not likely to be important or make much of an impact.

Though I don't agree with it, it is true. This will be the first generation raised seeing pornography and graphic images regularly and not being affected by them. It will be interesting to see what we do when we are the ones in power.

most likely any one who has even discovered this site *thats right, you, reading right now*

Just some control-freak, Chan-whore channeling, WASP-bitch spouting off.

I jack it to guro, this article is probably right. The person who wrote it should get prize of some sort.

Now that I've seen all this deviant, vile pornography I feel like breaking into a family's house and jerking off in their faces.
/sarcasm

I see no harm in the fact that this generation has access to porn. It's not going to make much of (if any) difference in the way that people grow up. Sex and porn shouldn't be something that should be feared and hated, everyone has sex and everyone masturbates at some point in their life.

Rape will be rampant, and no longer a crime.

Actually, I don't think it will have a huge negative impact on the people who will actually be in control of important things. If you are smart enough to gain a position of power, you are probably smart enough to think for yourself.

The biggest influence I can see it reasonably having is sortof... desensitizing people to things like nudity and sex; but I think people with reason and common sense will not look at violence and shit more casually.

Sounds like a plan for the New World.

Well... I dont know, but it does seem like they are making much more of a big deal on pornography lately. Sure they cant lessen the number by a few... but just a few....

there's worst stuff than porn, come on fucking fat kids, gangster those r real problems

Porn, no matter ur race, language or gender u'll like it

Xactly! Now those are real problems!

I would never use my computer if it weren't for porn.

something i agree on =w=

Being fair after reading all the responses, I asked my wife about why she hates me watching porn and she said it was okay to put some of what she said here. So here we go.....

She told me that she hates it b/c it lowers general cultural standards. She said that the magazines at the grocery stand catered to women are borderline pornographic in the stuff they write about, and she blamed it on the normalization of porn.

She told me that she has trouble unconsciously and consciously of accepting her sexual flaws in world where standards of women are increasingly being determined by the unrealistic and flawed depiction of women in porn.

She told me she is insecure that the stuff we are doing isn't really private, that "lovemaking" is just turning into sex. That the characteristics of our moments together, is degraded or cheapened due to me watching porn.

I see what she is talking about. I mean when her friends come over, I am really afraid of what they are going to talk about. I know that her friends and her are pretty explicit, and even "pornographic" describing their love life. I don't personally don't want my wife comparing...just like how she is "displeased" when she catches me with porn

For the sake of not getting into fights and giving her space, I never pry into conversions. But So yeah, I don't think porn as significant problem on the individual level, but i do see how internet revolution driven by porn is profoundly changing sexual and cultural standards. Whether that change is a negative, positive or little bit of both is why we have debate and must keep open minds.

I can understand your wife's concerns, and they are probably valid in a lot of cases, I just don't think that they work as generalizations. Personally, I realize porn is in the realm of fantasy and fiction, and that even in real porn, the people are not real. I don't expect real women to be like pornstars, and I don't expect real sex to be like in porn. It's like watching a violent action film. They aren't real people, and the situations in the film are not my life.
I fear, though, that maybe most people don't make such clear distinctions. For personal reasons, I separate all fact and fiction very clearly in my own mind, and I don't expect everyone to do so as deliberately as I do, but I like to hope that most people can at least tell the difference.
I like to hope...

Hehe, makes me laugh. I bet they said something similar when porn magazines first came out. They really will try everything they can to blame the corruption of society instead of looking at the obvious culprits.