Here are my brief comments. You can read some additional comments on our web site and select the Pornography button. I have an article posted there entitled "Sexually Pure or Sexually Porn?" to encourage our readers to give serious thought to what they mentally feed on daily when porn is so openly available.

1. Purpose of Pornography:

Pornography, as opposed to Art (Film or Photographic), is designed appeal to treating the human body as a source of visual meat ... something to be consumed, used, and discarded. The porn industry thrives on the inability of the laws to adequately draw the line between gratuitous use of sex as artistic license and the various levels of degrading pornography. Even Hollywood self-censoring cannot draw the line with their own producers for general audience films.

2. Unsatiated Desire:

It is largely purchased by men, many of whom become addicted to the images, seeking ever more cruder displays up to and including 'snuff' films (where the victim is killed after being sexually brutalized). Since a loving relationship is not established with a real person, this visual sex never satisfies the inner longing of that consumer's heart. He must purchase ever increasing amount, more violent as possible, and more bizarre to feed his ravenous visual addiction. Some act out on this mental diet using the morals presented as the baseline for normalcy in society. The 'harmless' baseline promoted by the porn industry however is treated as criminal in the California Penal Code. This unsatiated addiction is the main reason the Porn industry thrives.

3. Serious Crimes:

No woman feels safe when a stalker/rapist is making the rounds in California. It is front page news for weeks while woman after woman is assaulted and raped in their own homes until the criminal is arrested. His possessions often, if not always, consists of stacks of pornography (film, video, and print photos). The same is true of molesters of children except their pornography is largely teenaged or younger.

4. Hidden Victims:

(a) The American Psychological Association (APA) still has not refuted its' radical study in the original journal in which it appeared. They have denied it elsewhere but their scientific journal is still on record for promoting adult-child sex as healthy ... unless the child 'feels badly afterward'. The laws currently protect the sexualization of children for the porn industry under the age of 18. Yet porn web sites frequently promote 'Teens-on-Teens' and adult-child sex to flaunt their ability to do so despite the laws. Very few are prosecuted.

(b) The children are the losers. The APA opened the floodgates for criminals to say that the child did not 'feel badly' before the sexual act and therefore the criminal had no way of knowing the child would react adversely to the crime. This puts the burden of 'feeling badly' on the child apriori to the sexual act despite efforts by the adult in preparing the mental state of the child to be receptive to sexual abuse.

(c) Wives and girlfriends of men who have a steady diet of porn cannot hope to measure up to the fantasy held within their sexual partner's brains. They become something used and to be discarded, like an old car, when a newer model on a better chassis catches his eye. Some women live in unfulfilled relationships because their partner has been having an affair with airbrushed, oiled, and primped visual images on his TV. Wives are not getting the lifelong commitment they deserve. They are getting second best or worse.

Summary

The porn industry, like the illegal drug trade, will continue to thrive because of the customers, in an addicted state, do not want to be held responsible or accountable to a higher moral code. We as a society and especially in films must stop treating good as evil and archaic vestiges of morality. We as a society must stop promoting evil behavior as healthy and natural to the victims. The wild oats we have sown since the 1940s yielded the sexual revolution of the 1960s and which has yielded the recent morals of this generation that would make even our grandfathers blush.

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