MAKE_IT_UP_AS_YOU_GO.....imMORALITY...

and..... I rest my case.

Steve.. "kiddie porn, we have laws".... I'm sorry mate that is the joke of the century.

There is a political party in the Netherlands ADVOCATING child porn now.

The only question I have is...'how many times' does a community have to be told "Reap...what you sow"...or.. "If you hit that dog with a stick, it will BITE you"...before the scales or moral blindness are removed from our eyes ?

Let me take on the role of Micaiah the prophet, who was once asked by an ambitious, militarist king about whether he should 'go up against' another king.

[Fale Prophets/yes_men] ... "Yes oh King.. go up against them and surely they will be given into you hand"

[The King (doubting this 2good2btrue assessement)] "Is there not another man of God around who can give his opinion ?"

[Court Advisers] "Yes oh King..there is Micaiah"

[King} "HIM ! ? aaah.. he ALways gives me bad news.. I don't like his prophecies at all"

[Micaiah is called]

[King} "Sooooo... what do YOU think about this plan Micaiah"?

[Micaiah] "Oh king.. yes yes.. of course..go up against them and they will surely be given into your hand"

[King.... looks sideways.. rolls eyes...] "What"!

Readers will have to read 1 kings 22:8-39 to see full details.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=11&chapter=22&version=31

So.. "I" say.. "Sure.. put pornography in libraries, in schools, in PRE schools.. put it everywhere.... and surely you will be blessed"

But read the link above. See what happened to the king. I'ts better than an Agatha Christie. It mentions HOOKERS which is on topic.

This lawyer has taken two statistics and attempted to relate them in a roundabout manner. The increased availability of pornography is not related to a decrease in rapes. There is no causality! Statistically, rapists are more likely to view sexually violent pornography which is what separates them from people who do not commit rape. Ridiculous.

The incidence of rape is vastly underreported, and if reported, not fully subject to conviction, and if subject to conviction, underpenalized.

If males are raping sexually trafficked females who are underage does that count as rape? If males are snatching children who "disappear" permanently does that count as rape or as rape and murder undetected?

What about the rape of girlfriends and spouses, does that count as rape? What about incest, does that count as rape?

Does sex + a few slaps counta s rape, or as just rough sex?

Does rape count if you can't find the victim, and prove it happened, as in Aruba?

Finally, what is the rule of law if it does not apply to the underreported and underconvicted crime of rape as it applies to females? Is it the rule of law or something else?

Rape is not about sex. It is about power and violence. I was bashed to a pulp and then raped by two men. They admitted that they " ... went out that night to bash and rape ..." because they hated women.

One got 200 hours community sevice - the other, six years - then reduced to three and a half years. The DPP challenged this. The primary offender got six years. The Magistrate apologised in the paper - but not to me - that he had made a sentencing mistake - he said he was using a "20 years old" guideline - and that he would not do this again.

Two days ago I took on board a "free" internet cleaner. It told me that I had entered 620 pornographic sites! I have NEVER entered a porn site.

I have a deep and loving relationship with my husband. We donot need porn to sustain the beauty that we have.

Kay

Just as 'Rape' is not so much about 'sex' (though I assert it is a big factor) and more about 'power' and 'self actualization' it is a scream from inside the deprived and depraved individual "meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" but at the expense of all else. It is a point of ultimate confrontation with a world without God.

"When God is dead, all things become morally permissable." is something that either J.P. Sartre or F. Neitchze said.

Pornography is gratification of that part of us, which we all know only too well.... which we are repulsed by, yet lured towards. We hate it...but sometimes love it ?

Paul described the unrenewed man as follows

21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Fortunately for all of us, he finishes with the following:

25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans7)

Porn takes that which is beautiful at the deepest level of our beings, and re-packages it in much less responsible wrapping.
It's "pleasure without responsibility"

It is the ultimate power trip. "Here.. USE this person as you please, look, she will do all that you desire, your wish is her command, you want such and such.. she will do it.. "

Can anyone deny seriously, that the promotion of such a view of our fellow men and woman is anything but destructive ?

I'd be much more interested in how violent hollywood films affect people's relationships with guns. America has the greatest level of church attendance in the western world, its interesting that it is also the most gun-filled, violent nation on earth - a phenomenon which seems to be spreading - is this because Hollywood dominates cinematic culture?

Virtually every film that comes out of hollywood glorifies violence and the machismo of posessing guns.Would much rather this was researched, debated and understood.