Boaz
I would suggest that most people who look at porn would'nt even know what the colour of the participants hair was, never lone the facial expressions.

The fact is that many persons and couples, use porn as a 'sexual aid' which when you think about it comes into the 'what ever floats your boat' senario.

You are well within your right to criticise those who use porn, providing you are one who accepts critisisum equaly.

I would also like posters to leave their religious beliefs out of threads as there are vast differences in this area as well.

You don't have to believe in god to be what the bible portrays as a 'good person'. It is just that most belivers don't respect the rights and beleifs or 'non belivers'. And that's a fact

Interestingly recent research has shown that a significant predictor of adults with tendancies to sexual violence (and a preference for kinky sex) is being spanked as a child.

Murray Straus has recently released findings which appear to be quite clear about this. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080228220451.htm
“These results, together with the results of more than 100 other studies, suggest that spanking is one of the roots of relationship violence and mental health problems. Because there is 93 percent agreement between studies that investigated harmful side effects of spanking, and because over 90 percent of U.S. parents spank toddlers, the potential benefits for prevention of sexual and relationship violence is large,” Straus says.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=straus+spanking+violence&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

As someone who has been spanked and has used spanking in discipline the findings are disturbing but I've seen enough of Straus's work to pay attention when he expresses confidence in a finding.

Porn may not be the question.

R0bert

Dave here I've watched porn & I cannot see where it causes a person to do one thing or another it is the make up of the person it is time we worked out one thing all people are individuals & it is okay to be such.While ever we keep making laws our crime rate is going to keep rising & this making laws to combat anothers beliefs or conviction is only going to cause trouble it is time to accept others as we expect others to accept us live & let live do unto others as we would have them do unto us etc
May your Lord shine on you all well
God Bless from Dave

Banning it! That's a laugh. Censorship, yes. Some of the content is very questionable, and is knocking on the door of insanity. Better laws and harder ways to access some this material wouldn't go astray.

But people, this is the 21 first century, and if you don't like what you see, DONT WATCH IT! But for the young, it should be treated like a safe! You need a combination code to access it and the whole porn industry should become one entity and if persons becomes a member of that world, then no-one else can get into it. or allow only one visit per site and down load at your pleasure, and no screen viewing until the down load is completed, or time frame for viewing! Midnight till 6am. These are just a few ideas.

Because of population being what it is, you cant stop it, and it's a monster, 70% of the net,I believe, but we can make it safer.

Just a thought.

The author writes 'Pornography, then, acts like a release valve, channeling male sexual aggression into fantasy worlds that are sometimes ugly or grotesque, but which prevent those fantasies from ever being enacted in the real world.'

Sound like a line from the EROS mob. Try convincing the multitudes of children who have been sexually abused. Try telling the little girls and boys who have been abused by those who have watched this perversion and then act it out on their cousins and relatives.

Sebastion should pull his head out of the sand and stop living in denial. Promote perversion if you like but don't deny the obvious effects.

Runner, I hate to have to tell you this, but sexual abuse of children was around long before porn became available on the internet.

David