Good blog, I've watched this Dines a few times now and get angry every time. I think she just hates men and maybe all of humanity in general. She makes stuff up to convince herself that her position is based on reason. I think she has fooled herself but not too many other people.

The pervert industry is a protected species. To many have become enslaved to their lusts and want to defend their 'right'to remain there. The same people that scream so loud about cigarette packaging are often happy to turn a blind eye to this poison leading to the suicide of our young and the degradation of the human race. No other industry so demonstrates the depravity of the heart of man. This food for the corrupt nature of man leads to child abuse, spousal abuse, rape and degradation. Don't expect any Government funded studies to come to these conclusions. It would be easier to get truth on the man made gw nonsense which is nigh impossible.

Viewing pornography lead to abuse, does it, Runner?

Where is your evidence?

ozbib

use your brain. When a man watches men and woman having sex and then goes to work with all these images in his mind he is not thinking about how pretty his secretary's dress is. A certain percentage of men and woman will go on to commit every act of indecency you can think of. Paedophile Priests, School teachers, sports coaches have all been known to feed on this poison before abusing, raping or sodomising. I suggest you visit Prison and talk to any sex offender. You are unlikley to find one who isn't into the pervert industry. Evidence is ample but a deceived heart will never accept plain truth.

I think the moralisers that Jennifer so well describes broadly have a problem with sex full-stop.

There is a paradoxical alliance between hardcore feminists and rightwing politics. The rightwingers attempt to prove their pro-female credentials by backing the hardcore feminist anti-porn mantra.

Porn (if there is no violence or coercion) is a form of useful escapism which may well serve to reduce rape by acting as a celluloid substitute.

If someone is arguing "watching leads to doing" then how about the hundreds of shoot-em-up police, action man dramas watched by kiddies on TV, cinema and computer games. They haven't lead to sky high gun violence in Australia.

In talking to my female friends who view heaps of porn "Sex in the City" movie, series, Cleo and the Internet etc, they don't sense any male-rogue-chauvanism-pre-rape in it.

Conservative religious backed Senator Conroy's porn filter campaign is the thin end of the politicly correct censorship wedge that liberal and Labor Australians should fear.

Pete

runner wrote: "The same people that scream so loud about cigarette packaging are often happy to turn a blind eye to this poison leading to the suicide of our young and the degradation of the human race."

Dear runner,

You have made similar statements starting out with 'the same people'. Please be specific and name one or more persons 'that scream so loud about cigarette packaging' and 'are often happy to turn a blind eye to this poison leading to the suicide of our young and the degradation of the human race.'