posted on 9:30 PM | permalink

I have two daughters thirteen and ten. They both love and admire Miley Cyrus, a.k.a. Hannah Montana. My wife and I admire her as well... We bought our daughters tickets to her world tour (which was also borderline inappropriate... but her parents should be just a bit more careful.

Exploitation is the name of the game in the magazine rags and anything that is edgy and nears child pornography is par for the course. See here for more.

posted on 1:48 PM | permalink

Lighted Candle Society - April Newsletter - Get more documents

posted on 10:32 AM | permalink

by Justin Hart, VP Communications, Lighted Candle Society

There's a debate going on in Congress and on The Corner about pornography and the military. Arguments from people in the military, in the libertarian square, gov/legal perspective, and the common sense conservative outlook are valuable discussions points but there's another perspective: science.

One of the goals of the Lighted Candle Society is to finance and promote scientific studies into the effects of pornography on the brain and on society. A growing mountain of evidence points to the risks associated with pornography addiction. Later this year we will be conducting our own study using ground breaking fMRI technology to examine the effects on the human noggin'!

We've been collecting some prominent studies here, but here's a quick rundown:

• Individuals who have had an extramarital affair are 3.18 times more likely to have used pornography than individuals who did not have affairs.
• Young men who are high consumers of pornography are more likely to engage in anal sex, as well as have sexual relations with a friend (i.e. someone with whom they are not in a loving romantic relationship).
• People who reported being happily married were 61 percent less likely to report using pornography.
• People who have engaged in paid sex (i.e. used prostitution) or had extramarital affairs were three times as likely to have used porn than those who did not.
• Pornography consumption is significantly associated with perceptions of emotional infidelity. People also perceive online acts of infidelity as being authentic and real as offline acts.
• Married women are more likely to experience distress over a partner's pornography use than are women in dating relationships.
• A relationship exists between frequent pornography consumption and sexually aggressive behavior. This relationship is especially strong for those with the highest "predisposing" risk level for sexual behavior.
• Results also revealed associations between pornography acceptance and use and emerging adults' risky sexual attitudes and behaviors, substance use patterns, and nonmarital cohabitation values.
  

To use a common neocon analogy: not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslim. Not all porn addicts are rapist and pedophiles but most (if not all) rapists and pedophiles are porn addicts (see here for a two week example).

posted on 3:31 PM | permalink

There are two debates raging in congress which have little to do with each other but illustrate the serious misgivings that many have about the "trojan horse" nature of our elected officials.

One debate concerns the question of putting the polar bear on the endangered species list. We all love polar bears but listing this creature on the ESL is just a means to an ends. The back story here essentially dictates that CO2 emissions can be regulated from the Fish and Wildlife department. In short, the effort to save the polar bear is a ruse for a bigger and wider agenda that effects every American.

The second debate (which begins in force tomorrow) pits consumers against themselves in a chicken match of mixed benefits and scary consequences. The notion of "Net Neutrality" has made its way to Capitol Hill. In short, this initiative would mandate that ISPs (Internet Service Providers) provide one set rate and one set speed for all internet users, period. But, here's the trojan horse part again:

On the face of it this seems like a worthy endeavor. After all the entrepreneurial spirit of companies like YouTube and Facebook started garage-style with a simple internet connection. But, the fine print behind this initiative is a bit disconcerting. Essentially, it would prohibit ISPs from regulating or discriminating against any content across their wires. This is where we share some serious concerns with other who oppose Net Neutrality.

With the growing use of advanced technologies (such as Peer-to-Peer and Bit Torrent) eating up bandwidth for the rest of us... one has to ask... what is all that stuff being downloaded? According to one study, over 60% of the bandwidth hogging is all about extreme sexual content.

So, given that Net Neutrality would prohibit ISPs from putting bandwidth hoggers in a separate lane on the information highway and given that Net Neutrality would prohibit groups like the Lighted Candle Society from putting the crunch on porn distributors... I can say this much: I don't like it and I don't trust it.

posted on 10:05 AM | permalink

AdvanceUSA, a non-profit organization, recently interviewed Justin Hart, Vice President of Communications for the Lighted Candle Society.

Read the interview here.

posted on 12:17 PM | permalink

The swath of porn-related crimes continues unabated. We bring you (again) a litany of professions and people from every demographic you can imagine.

Note: this doesn't take us very long to do, these cases have been in the news over the past two weeks only:

• Australian police officer caught with child pornography
• UK Burglar caught in the act
• California county auditor
• Handy man suspect in child rape and pornography
• New Mexico Deacon for producing child pornography
• Nebraska softball coach
• Ontario cop caught with child pornography
• Phoenix grade school teacher
• Virginia radio station owner
• NASA engineer
• Texas pastor

Labels: child pornography, crime

posted on 4:18 PM | permalink

This about takes the cake for excuses:

Fredericksburg.com - Molester claims he was victim of Bigfoot: "A man who claims that he was molested by Bigfoot as a child was ordered to serve 20 years in prison yesterday for his own molestation-related activities.

Gene R. Morrill, 57, of New Ipswich, N.H., had previously pleaded guilty in Stafford Circuit Court to 20 charges stemming from his efforts to solicit 13-year-old boys over the Internet.

Defense attorney Terrence Patton cited Morrill's mental health issues in seeking leniency from Judge J. Howe Brown.

Morrill told an investigator preparing his pre-sentence report about being sexually assaulted by the legendary Bigfoot, a North American folklore character said to be between 7 and 10 feet tall, and covered in dark brown or dark reddish hair. Patton said Morrill really believes the assaulted happened."