Go get 'em runner!! All those deviated preverts are obviously maliciously spreading their preversion among the innocent and weak-minded. Good thing you've tumbled to their devilish plan.

@runner.

I wonder what sort of person you are who wouldn't be proud of whatever choices your progeny made - as long as it was with their own free will and with consideration.

You remind me of the sort of parent who wouldn't let their daughter marry a black man, or a Jew, or a hippie etc, and would have kittens if they turned out to be a lesbian..

As for your "clear link" research to date indicates an inverse correlation between sexual violence and the availability of erotic material.

There was some sort of saint, maybe St Augustine who started the original book of sins. Basically it kind of became the bible for sins.

Gradually all sorts of sexual behaviour became a sin. There may have been a stage that only the missionary position wasn't a sin, as long as it was with your husband/wife. Thus ended paganism.

This probably set the scene for Freud etc.

Now I wonder what has created the market for porn?

When porn was available only on the black market (no pun intended) of cause violence was associated with it, because violence is part of the criminal element.

Rape and child abuse existed for a long time before porn ever came on the scene. So did violence, murder and robbery.

Several observations have been made by people charged with sex offences. Among them are that pornography portray that women want to and need to be raped. Pornography increases the belief that children enjoy having sex with adults (or should I say deviants).

Pornography is about selfishness, violence and manipulation. This is the opposite to a man and a women giving themselves to each other.

Again many of the posters here deny the corruption of man's heart that leads to child sexual abuse and many other perversions. Pornography leads many to base their self esteem on how much sex and how many partners they can have. No wonder our mental institutions are have so many guilt ridden broken people.
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You ar right that I would be heart broken if my daughter chose to be a lesbian. I would however still love her.You however reveal yourself to be a very judgemental person assuming I would not want my daughter marrying a black man or a Jew.

If Melinda is right and sexual criminal behaviour is because of pornography and to solve it is to ban it, then the high rate of violent offences committed by and large by men (more than 80% ABS) can also be solved. Ban all movies, rap songs, videos, games etc that portray violence. Result: no more violence.

Now we know what makes those men commit murder, assault, bank robberies etc. They're acting out what they've just seen at Birch, Carroll and Coyle!

What a meaningless and unhelpful article addressing the break down of remote communities.

Boazy, if you think it is only in isolated cases that these things happen in our cities you are living isolated from what is happening here in your own back yard.

As to that there are girls who did not understand they could refuse sex. Where exactly is the link to porn in that?

"Up to a third of child sex offenders said they had viewed pornography prior to offending."

"Research shows that significant exposure to “standard” pornography...increases men's self-reported likelihood to commit sexual abuse." (NB: SELF-REPORTED)

So what are we to say fellow bloggers? Let's just ignore those statistics?

From what I read, it's you bloggers doing the generalising.

Melinda has every right to say what she's saying.

JamesH - Rape and porn may have always existed but never in my face before like it is today.

Yvonne - I think you've worked it out..."They're acting out what they've just seen at Birch, Carroll and Coyle!"

Johnj - you've got it in one. "All those deviated preverts are obviously maliciously spreading their preversion among the innocent and weak-minded." That's how they make their money.

The pornography industry is starting to encroach on my family's public space and I have had enough. The ABC radio news bulletin is constantly reporting the explicit details of yet another sex abuse case against children. Simply driving down the street I am confronted on every corner by billboards and buses with photographs of sultry and erotic looking naked or half dressed women.

X-rated pornography is simply the darkest extreme of a sinister industry stopping at nothing to make money at the expense of our family's safety, freedom and right to undisturbed public space.