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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

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Saying for this Day
Louise
03-18-10 4:15 pm
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be. —John Ortberg (This is so appropriate for...

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Louise
03-17-10 8:09 am
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work...

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Louise
03-16-10 7:03 am
Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate and allowed -- are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be...

Verse for this Day
Louise
03-15-10 9:29 am
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. —2 Chronicles 16:9

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Louise
03-12-10 10:22 am
“Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence” —Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Louise
03-11-10 7:53 am
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us...

Saying for this Day
Louise
03-10-10 8:58 am
O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You in the midst of the world's affairs, When we stumble, hold us; when we fall, lift us up. When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us. When we turn...

Verse for this Day
Louise
03-09-10 9:11 am
Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6

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Louise
03-05-10 11:25 am
No matter how disappointed you are feeling or how much you are hurting, know that every heartache and loss has within it the seeds of opportunity. Hidden within each disappointment is a peal of great...

Verse for this Day
Louise
03-03-10 7:54 am
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control,...

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Pornified Books Books Beyond the Cosmos Books by Joel S Goldsmith Christianity is Jewish Everyman's Search How to Find Health through Prayer I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Let Go Pornified Spychips The Divine Plan The Great Influenza The Secret Life of Water This Hebrew Lord Torah Rediscovered Home » Books 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 login or register to post comments	Bloggster Saying for this Day Louise 03-18-10 4:15 pm Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be. —John Ortberg (This is so appropriate for... Verse for this Day Louise 03-17-10 8:09 am For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work... Saying for this Day Louise 03-16-10 7:03 am Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate and allowed -- are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be... Verse for this Day Louise 03-15-10 9:29 am "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. —2 Chronicles 16:9 Saying for this Day Louise 03-12-10 10:22 am “Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence” —Johann Kaspar Lavater Verse for this Day Louise 03-11-10 7:53 am But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us... Saying for this Day Louise 03-10-10 8:58 am O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You in the midst of the world's affairs, When we stumble, hold us; when we fall, lift us up. When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us. When we turn... Verse for this Day Louise 03-09-10 9:11 am Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6 Saying for this Day Louise 03-05-10 11:25 am No matter how disappointed you are feeling or how much you are hurting, know that every heartache and loss has within it the seeds of opportunity. Hidden within each disappointment is a peal of great... Verse for this Day Louise 03-03-10 7:54 am Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control,...
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