The Problem With Porn

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THE PROBLEM WITH PORN Pornography is like a       drug
Pornography is not what       it used to be
Porn can be very       addictive
Porn shapes attitudes       and values
True stories: the porn       industry revealed

THE PROBLEM WITH PORN

Pornography is like a drug
Pornography is not what it used to be
Porn can be very addictive
Porn shapes attitudes and values
True stories: the porn industry revealed

PORNOGRAPHY IS LIKE A DRUG
Viewing Internet porn and/or engaging in cybersex chat, coupled with masturbation, cause the brain and body to release drugs back into its own nervous system. Based on its ability to produce self-medication, mask pain, escape reality and provide the means to achieve orgasm. Internet pornography has been placed in direct competition with illicit drugs!

Internet pornography is considered preferable to traditional drugs in many ways. It can more easily be hidden from view. Achieving a high through Internet porn or cybersex won’t cause you to stagger around, slur your words or pass out. What other drug can you sample for free as long as you like? (There are enough “free” and “sampler” porn sites and thousands of cybersex chat rooms available through standard Internet services to keep an addict occupied for years.) And if the free or sample drugs aren’t strong enough, what other drug could you purchase in large enough quantities, not to mention a constantly changing variety, to satisfy your changing mood, craving or preference, all for just the cost of your Internet connection?

It’s easy to see why addicts of Internet porn eventually will outnumber cocaine, crack or meth addicts! Consider how the Internet porn/cybersex “drug” eclipses and outperforms common street drugs:

• The drug is free or relatively cheap.

• It can be used as often as desired.

• Regular users of the drug don’t manifest embarrassing outward physical signs.

• The drug, with rare exceptions (i.e. child pornography), is completely legal.

• No prescription is required.

• The drug producers (Internet pornographers) are shrouded in anonymity.

• Producers are able to pump the drug right into a home or office.

• The drug supply is endless and instantly available at the push of a button, 24 hours/day.

• Unlike other drugs, porn leaves behind no trace of physical evidence (no smell, no residue, no paraphernalia). Any physical hint of its use vanishes when the computer is turned off.

• The addict has access to a constantly changing variety of drugs. With thousands of choices, he/she can switch to a new, different or harder drug with the click of a mouse. (excerpted from The Drug of the New Millennium, Mark B. Kastleman, p.9)

PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE (i.e., Playboy or Penthouse)
Pornography distributed on the INTERNET today can be termed “hard-core.”
Examples include:

• Sadism: depicts pain as being pleasurable
• Body-piercing, torture and mutilation
• Rape: emphasizes the “rape myth”
• Incest: females or males reportedly initiating and enjoying sexual abuse inflicted by family members
• Snuff films: low-budget films in which the actor is sexually abused and then murdered
• Combining human excrement with sexual activity
• Orgies/group sex
• Necrophilia: sex with a corpse
• Bestiality: sex with animals
• Ritualistic sexual abuse
• Degradation of pregnant women
• Crossover videos: depicts serial progression from heterosexual acts to bisexual acts to homosexual acts, the latest fad in the pornography market

PORN CAN BE VERY ADDICTIVE

• Images viewed for only a few seconds can produce a structural change in the brain and body that may last a lifetime.

• Through the law of strength, pornographic images gain immediate entrance into the brain and body and can be allotted enormous amounts of storage space.

• Pornographic images are stored in the cells of the brain and body as cellular-memories. These images then become “tangible” memories, literally changing the viewer on the “inside.”

• The brain and body immediately seek to link the stored pornographic images with other cellular-memories. These links are determined by the meaning that the pornography has to the viewer. Meaning is everything in the human brain and body.

• Because of the powerful meaning and response pornography can evoke in the brain and body, it is often linked to a vast array of other cellular-memories. This vast network of links wields a tremendous impact on the physical and chemical makeup, attitudes and behavior of the pornography viewer.

• Because of this dramatic change in the structure of the brain and body, severe addiction can result and the pornography addict can become a significant burden and risk to family, friends and society as a whole.

PORN SHAPES ATTITUDES AND VALUES
Just as 30-second commercials can influence whether or not we choose one popular soft drink over another, exposure to pornography shapes our attitudes, values (and often) our behavior. Replicated studies have demonstrated that exposure to significant amounts of increasingly graphic forms of pornography has a dramatic effect on how adult and child consumers view men, women, teens, children, sexual behavior, sexual relationships, and sex in general.

When experimental subjects were exposed to as little as six weeks’ worth of non-violent pornography, they:

• Began to trivialize rape as a criminal offense, or no longer considered it a crime at all.

• Developed distorted perceptions about sexuality.

• Developed an appetite for more deviant, bizarre or violent types of pornography. (Normal sex no longer seemed to satisfy.)

• Devalued the importance of monogamy and lacked confidence in marriage as either a viable or lasting institution.

• Viewed non-monogamous relationships as normal and natural.

(The Drug of the New Millennium, Mark B. Kastleman)

TRUE STORIES: THE PORN INDUSTRY REVEALED
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