It's true you know. The introduction of visual images really does make you want to copy the images received. You don't have a choice. Just ask Catharine McKinnon or Andrea Dworkin.

I mean, I watched a movie on concentration camps once, and now I want to kill Jews. It is clearly inevitable that when a person sees a visual image they lose all sense of will and reasoning. That's why I buy every product I see advertised. Does hell for my credit card, let me tell you...

Wait a minute... Perhaps our original poster is trying to suggest that only the brains of the aboriginal race is somehow thus afflicted?

(Nota bene: I've really got to stop taking the piss out of easy targets)

Authoritarian feminist crap. Evidence? Nah, we don't need that. Correlation equals causation? Sure, why not?

Generalizations tend by their nature to be rather sweeping, but this one's a little over-broad, I think.

>>The really toxic poison to many cultures around the world has been the european culture<<

Culture? Are we talking libraries, opera houses, art galleries here? The intellectual reach of a Galileo, the reasoning of a Socrates or the spiritual insight of a Michaelangelo? If so, I'm not sure that "european culture" has that much to swipe at - at least until you reach Stockhausen and Damien Hirst.

What does cause problems in "differently historied" cultures is the sheer arrogance of those who believe so fiercely that they are morally and intellectually superior, and therefore automatically "right".

The destruction of the aboriginal culture is almost complete. The process started in 1788 and has continued in various guises ever since. In a sense it is a little unfair to place all the blame on the do-gooder christians who destroyed family life in the name of their god, when so many other factors have conspired over the years to achieve the same end.

It is an omelette, and there is no way to reconstitute the eggs. But to place so much emphasis on pornography is to completely misrepresent the problem.

Cornflower well said.

The author sees hard core pawn as a cause rather than an effect. Are otherwise happy and well adjusted people turning into violent child abusers because they watched violent/abusive porn or are they watching violent/abusive porn because they were not so well adjusted in the first place.

The author claims "Up to a third of child sex offenders said they had viewed pornography prior to offending." - that could be read to suggest that two thirds of child sex offenders didn't look at porn prior to offending. Watch out for those who don't watch porn, it would appear that they are twice as likely to sexually abuse children as porn watchers (In case anybody misses it I've joined Lev in taking the piss and and not seriously interpreting the authors claims that way). Would less have offended if they had looked at porn rather than seeking out a victim?

On the other hand those who fail to make responsible decisions about how children are treated should loose some options. If they choose to show porn to children then I've got no issue with porn not being available to the individuals concerned.

R0bert

As usual those caught in the bondage of pornography defending their right to be perverts despite the clear evidence that many people act out what they watch when given the opportunity. Once again the rights of the most vulernable (young children) are ignored while the selfish gratify themselves by watching porn. To deny the link between pornography, rape and child sexual abuse is deceitful at best. I am sure the defenders of pornography would love their daughters performing on screen. How proud they would be to tell others that their children are porn stars.

Oh, what the Hell. I'll bite.

runner, what is the "clear evidence" that people act out what they see in pornography? How does that make one a pervert? What is the evidence that there is a link between pornography, rape and child sexual abuse?