Pornified
How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
From Introduction
It's difficult, therefore, to approach a subject like pornography from a fresh perspective. Both men and women have some many preconceptions: a person is either for pornography or against it, a prude or a player, a religious fanatic or a radical feminist, Larry Flynt or Andrea Dworkin. There is no middle ground on the playing field of consumers and abstainers, civil libertarians and Comstockian curmudgeons. Yet framing the debate in terms of distorted polarities ignores the vast middle ground where pornography plays a significant and growing role. One need not be a prude or a religious zealot to experience revulsion at the sight of certain pornography, just as one need not be a depraved pervert or a lefty activist to use pornography.
The fact is, none of the current assumptions reflect how pornography really affects people and their relationships— and to continue to abide by them would mean ignoring an issue that is transforming most Americans' lives. Instead of relying on political posturing and abstract arguments, I have sought answers to some simple questions: Who uses pornography and why? What do men see in it? Are more women indulging? How does pornography affect people? Will looking at online pornography at age nine affect boys and girls when they reach sexual maturity? What is the impact of a pornified culture on relationships and on society as a whole? —Pages 9-10
Saying for this Day
Louise
12-04-08 10:34 am
What a humbling thought it is, that so often there is earnest prayer in
which the desire for our own joy or pleasure is far stronger than many
desire for God's glory. No wonder there are so many...
Verse for this Day
Louise
12-03-08 10:04 am
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. —James 4:7
Saying for this Day
Louise
12-02-08 8:03 am
Try so to live in the light of God's love that it becomes a second
nature to you, tolerate nothing adverse to it, be continually striving
to please Him in all things, take all that He sends...
Verse for this Day
Louise
12-01-08 7:58 am
For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. —1 Corinthians 2:11
Happy Thanksgiving!
Louise
11-27-08 3:01 pm
May The Lord bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Saying for this Day
Louise
11-27-08 8:52 am
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
Verse for this Day
Louise
11-26-08 8:27 am
The LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. —Isaiah...
Saying for this Day
Louise
11-25-08 7:45 am
I believe that we all have this dark underestimation of ourselves.
Sometimes it is masked as arrogance, overestimation, superiority, but
underneath the brashness he problem is insecurity and only...
Verse for this Day
Louise
11-24-08 8:33 am
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly...
Saying for the Weekend
Louise
11-21-08 4:11 pm
Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time...
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