Former porn actress to men: Stop looking at porn or you will destroy your life
“Jennifer Case left the sex industry three years ago by the grace of God, she says, and her message to men is very clear: ‘There is a real person on the other side of the images you are seeing, and you are destroying her life and the lives of her children.’”
Defiant judge takes on child pornography law
Defiant judge takes on child pornography law
New York Times, A. G. Sulzberger, 5.21.2010
“In his 43-year career as a federal judge, Jack B. Weinstein has come to be identified by his efforts to combat what he calls ‘the unnecessary cruelty of the law.’ His most recent crusade is particularly striking because of the beneficiary: a man who has amassed a vast collection of child pornography.”
Gail Dines: Living in a porn culture
Living in a porn culture
New Left Project, Alex Doherty, 4.15.,2010
“The question I pose in Pornland is, what does it mean to grow up in a society where the average age of first viewing porn is 11 for boys, and where girls are being inundated with images of themselves as wannabe porn stars?”
Social Costs of Pornography: Statement of Principles, DVD available from Witherspoon Institute Consultation
The Witherspoon Institute’s 2008 Consultation on the Social Costs of Pornography “assembled leading experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurophysiology, philosophy, sociology, law, and political theory to present a rigorously argued overview of the problem of pornography in our society and to make recommendations. The primary purpose of the meeting was to examine the real nature of pornography in its moral and social consequences.”
Internet porn is “sexual revolution times 1,000,” ex-official says
Salt Lake Tribune: “About 1,000 Utahns were told to join the ‘war on pornography’ Saturday at a conference aimed at teaching them how to protect themselves and their children against it or how to get help if they are addicted. ‘Internet pornography is the sexual revolution times 1,000,’ said Patrick Trueman, former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Criminal Division under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.” | Pornography Harms
Rebecca Hagelin: Web 2.0 runs wild
Rebecca Hagelin writing in the Washington Times: “Your child no longer has to be ‘bound’ at a desk in front of a computer screen to have the world — and everyone in it — at his or her fingertips. Every day, children who visit interactive sites interact with strangers. And, more and more often, homespun Internet porn has been appearing everywhere from the school bus to the back seat of Mom’s minivan.”
Teenage boys watching hours of internet pornography every week are treating their girlfriends like sex objects
Daily Mail: “‘Boys just want us to do all the stuff they see the porn stars do,’ one 16-year-old girl told me. ‘It’s as if we have to pretend we are in a movie’ . . . Latest figures suggest that boys spend as much as three hours a week gazing at porn; absorbing unrealistic images of aesthetically enhanced people, many of whom are engaged in multi-partner, violent and perverted sex acts.”
Pamela Paul: The cost of growing up on porn
Pamela Paul, author of Porn Generation, writing at the Washington Post: “An entire generation is being kept in the dark about pornography’s effects because previous generations can’t grapple with the new reality. Whether by approaching me (at the risk of peer scorn) after I’ve spoken at a university or via anonymous e-mails, young people continue to pass along an unpopular message: Growing up on porn is terrible. One 17-year-old who had given up his habit told me that reading about porn addicts ‘was like reading a horrifying old diary, symptoms, downward spirals, guilt, hypocrisy, lack of control, and the constant question of to what degree fantasy is really so different from reality. I felt like a criminal, or at the very least, a person who would objectively disgust me.’”
Janice Shaw Crouse: What’s wrong with legalizing prostitution?
Janice Shaw Crouse writing at The American Thinker: “Any discussion of prostitution must center on a basic fact: Control and exploitation of another person is slavery. Pimps control 80%-95% of all forms of prostitution. Nearly 70% of those in prostitution entered before age 16. In the U.S., the average age of entry is 12. Twelve!”
Should the obscenity standard for internet speech be national, or local?
FindLaw: “Obscenity law has always had weak underpinnings. Now, due to the advent of the Internet, it may be toppled entirely, if courts truly begin to take seriously the due process and First Amendment problems it raises. If it is not toppled, then significant injustices – like the injustice perpetrated in the Paul Little case – will only continue.”
