
I'm fairly new to the cultural war against pornography but one of the things that shocks me is the wide swath of people caught up in serious degrading pornography and the criminal behavioral that typically follows.
In the past, pornography was a rich man's game, available only to those who could afford the luxury of back-alley materials. Today, its not just the down-on-his-luck fellow who was abused as a child... its the teacher, the couple, the judge, and the teenager.
For example, there's no evidence that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner has a porn problem but methinks he doth protest too much. Apparently,
he's concerned that Google Street View (an application that embeds people-level snapshots onto Google maps) will embarrass some folks that may be patrons of adult book shops. My guess is that if you set up a camera in front of "a store of repute" you'd be shocked at who you would find.
Here's the sad part. Every one of these stories crossed my desk within the last 24 hours. And, in truth, this is just a sampling.
This is unlike any drug on the market: free, reusable, no physical outward effects, with few exceptions completely legal, no prescription, and 24-hour push-button access.
Listen, we can all agree that women are beautiful and that these temptations play on natural human capacities. But the effects of serious porn addiction cannot be taken lightly or simply dismissed.
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