Beware of Pornography Awareness Week [The Puritan Crusade]
The Anti-Porn Campaigners
Memorize these facts: in the real world, porn is NOT connected with violence against women, child molestation, or divorce.In fact, according to the FBI, these have all declined since the country was flooded with web porn in 2000. Porn is cathartic.
Last week saw the start of WRAP Week: White Ribbons Against Pornography.
Sponsored by groups including Concerned Women for America (CWA) and Morality in Media (MIM), the goal of the week is “to educate the public about the extent of the pornography problem and what can constitutionally be done about it.”
The groups involved suggest activities for observing the week, such as urging the Attorney General to enforce obscenity laws.
I totally agree with the idea behind WRAP. I support increasing everyone’s awareness of pornography use in this country - how many people watch it, who these people typically are, how it affects them and their relationships, what are rights are regarding pornography, etc.
Of course, I have a different, more scientific take on the “problem,” so I propose a different set of activities to observe the Week.
To counter the obscene lies our media and legislators will be hearing this week, perhaps you could do one (or more!) of the following:
* If you use porn, talk about it with your partner.
* Thank the clerk in your local convenience store for carrying porn magazines or videos.
* Write a letter to the editor of your local paper explaining that most people who use porn have no problem with it.
* Invite your partner to share her/his concerns about porn with you.
* Instead of a White Ribbon, wear a Plaid Ribbon. When people ask, say it’s for Porn Awareness Week and your gratitude for the First Amendment.
* Start a conversation with someone: “Did you know that the Bill of Rights says nothing about an exception for porn, obscenity, or indecency?
* Send a few bucks to the ACLU, National Coalition Against Censorship or Woodhull Freedom Foundation. They protect your right to read, watch, and jack off to whatever adult material you like.
* Write your mayor or governor reminding them that you vote, and you have no problem with porn.
* Memorize these facts: in the real world, porn is NOT connected with violence against women, child molestation, or divorce.
In fact, according to the FBI, these have all declined since the country was flooded with internet porn in 2000.
* Use some.
* Support 'liberated porn sites like this one.
Bonus: What to say to people who claim that pornography causes most of America’s problems:
* “Of course some rapists and wife-beaters use pornography. So do 50,000,000 other Americans, and it doesn’t make them rape or beat anyone.”
* “Of course some people watch way too much porn. Other people watch way too much football, reality TV, or the Weather Channel. That doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with any of them.”
* “Porn doesn’t make men withdraw from their wives and girlfriends. Men withdraw for a variety of reasons. No pictures or stories can compete with a satisfying sexual & emotional relationship with a live person.”
Read the article you linked to. Whew! That was...ouch. Nice to know the
President's love life is soaring while the economy and the rest of the
American people are in the slums.