Mo. AG backs plan to let child porn victims sue
“Child pornography victims could sue anyone convicted of producing, promoting or possessing their sexual images for at least $150,000 in damages . . . “
MIM Report Shows How the Explosion of Hardcore Adult Pornography on the Internet and Elsewhere is Contributing to the Sexual Exploitation of Children
“Morality in Media has compiled information from hundreds of news articles and from court cases, social science studies, books, Congressional testimony, and other sources that show how the explosion of hardcore adult pornography on the Internet and elsewhere is contributing to the sexual exploitation of children. The works cited in the report were published from 1980 to the present.”
Dancing with the Pornographers
First Things: “One look at the data reveals the porn-star life is as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short as you get.”
David Ogden and the New Pornographers
Public Discourse: “Pornography should not be regarded as immune from regulation because it is “free speech.” A mounting body of evidence shows that the social costs of pornography can extend to all areas of society, from creating a less productive and more harassing workplace to weakening marriages.”
Social Costs of Pornography
Morality in Media: “Contrary to the perceptions of some, most hardcore pornography is not “just two (or perhaps three) people having sex.” Most hardcore pornography is produced for males, and when males become addicted to pornography, they begin to seek out, in the words of psychologist Dr. Victor B. Cline, “rougher, more explicit, more deviant, and ‘kinky’ kinds of sexual material to get their ‘highs’…”
The Social Costs of Pornography: Witherspoon Institute Conference
Witherspoon Institute: “This meeting 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 Harm from Sex and Violence on Television and Practical Solutions to Protect Society
The author, Patrick A. Trueman: “It is my observation, after my more than 20 years of service to this cause, that there is no good whatsoever that comes from watching pornography – for adults but especially for children.”
Child Porn vs. Child Protection
Townhall: “We’ve reached the point where we blindly ignore gross and horrific child abuse. And we’ve become so comfortable in our upscale communities that we don’t want to acknowledge what the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) calls “the seedy and sophisticated underworld” of child porn.”
Sexually oriented businesses can harm communities
Brian A. Weber, Dodge City Commissioner, Daily Globe, June 13, 2008: “I raise the question that if such businesses do in fact promote negative secondary effects, and if such effects would logically occur in our community, how is it not the responsibility of this community to be proactive in addressing this issue?”
Suicides follow child pornography prosecutions
Law.com: “In the Northern District of California alone, four child porn targets have committed suicide over the past nine months, according to government court filings in two separate cases. One additional defendant tried to kill himself in February, court records indicate.”
