Ezhil My skepticism of government,

The“moral credibility” of the Keating government included everything from adultery (Evans/Kernow), avarice (Richardson) to pedophilia (Collins) and I am sure some of them would have been unsafe left around a zoo (thus a-z) but I never voted for the swill.


“Children see pornos in the internet because it is available”

I run essential anti-virus software on my computers called “VET”.

It includes, for those who need it, a censorship package which locks out all porn and chat sites etc. so parents can intervene to stop their children from viewing what is generally considered “adult material” or to protect them from the danger of engaging in “friendships” over the net through Chat rooms etc.

Any parent supplying a child with computer access should not do so without -

Virus protection (or the PC will not run the following day – my present note book collected 200 viruses in a day when I was using a previous product which failed on me and ceased to function. Because of it, I had to get the hard drive purged and re-installed)

Thus your claim of “children seeing pornos through the internet” is clearly and simply 100% avoidable.

“Let the issue be discussed by a panel of psychologists, psychiatrists and social activists.”

“psychologists, psychiatrists” I have met some who are as crazy as cut snakes, complete loons.

Since I am neither a psychologist (although my partner is and she did so enjoy seeing the movie “Story of ‘O’” , very adult, very kinky) nor a psychiatrist, I guess I can include myself among the “social activists”, rather than leave the panel to be populated by a bunch of do-gooder wannabes and dikes with hairy armpits (excuse my humour, it is a somewhat “acquired” taste).

I await being called to this “panel” you are proposing.

But believe me, I will vigorously protest against any government imposing censorship or bans on pornography, which I do use, from time to time.

Just as I will protest against any attempt to re-criminalize prostitution, although I have never used such services and never will.

I've just tracked down a link to Todd Kendall's paper on "Pornography, Rape and the Internet" http://www.toddkendall.net/internetcrime.pdf

I've posted some other links on Gibo's new tread.

If Todd's findings are correct the anti-porn lobby is unwittingly pushing an agenda with a likely outcome of increasing sexual violence in society.

R0bert

Dear Col Rouge,
Thank you for your comments. Let us not make others feel that porno is an indispensable human activity.
Even the regular cinema is causing immense harm to to the society.Love is portrayed very cheaply.Love will be divine in the minds of the youth only when is read or heard from literature.Once it is enacted by a male and a female, as in cinema,it becomes basal. Because of the obscene portrayal of women, youth will not develop respect for women. Instead they all will look at women as sex symbols. The women in society have lost their respectable status because of cinema and the glamour girls who sell their physique for huge money.
When this is the case with regular cinema, one can imagine the negative role of pornos in affecting the status of women.Let us not misuse the the great invention, the cinema and the camera, to the detriment of human beings especially women.
Ezhi

Dear Col Rouge,
Thank you for your comments. Let us not make others feel that porno is an indispensable human activity.
Even the regular cinema is causing immense harm to to the society.Love is portrayed very cheaply.Love will be divine in the minds of the youth only when is read or heard from literature.Once it is enacted by a male and a female, as in cinema,it becomes basal. Because of the obscene portrayal of women, youth will not develop respect for women. Instead they all will look at women as sex symbols. The women in society have lost their respectable status because of cinema and the glamour girls who sell their physique for huge money.
When this is the case with regular cinema, one can imagine the negative role of pornos in affecting the status of women.Let us not misuse the the great invention, the cinema and the camera, to the detriment of human beings especially women.
Ezhil

Ezhil” The women in society have lost their respectable status because of cinema and the glamour girls who sell their physique for huge money.”

Show me the evidence

I am the father of two adult daughters, aged 27 and 23 years.

They both have incredible self esteem which developed from the unconditional love which they have received from the moment of their birth.

Neither has experienced any “loss of their respectable status” because of movies.

My fiancé would not stay with me, nor I with her, unless we both respected each other.

We both enjoy watching and reading, separately and together, what many may class as “pornography”.

So I think you are wrong in your presumption to how women are viewed in society.

“.Let us not misuse the the great invention, the cinema and the camera, to the detriment of human beings especially women.”

Before cinema and videos and even before Greeks and Romans painted salacious and pornographic scenes on pottery, God bestowed upon us all free will and a conscience.

To repeat back to you your own words

“Let us not misuse the great” gifts of freewill and conscience by censoring peoples right to make up their own mind over what they watch, what they read and what they choose to do with other consenting adults.

The greater danger is censorship more than pornography.

I accept censorship as being necessary to protect the immature minds or children, just as I believe children have to be protected from many matters and things which adults deal with in their stride.

But that does not apply to the developed mind of adults. Censorship constructs the authoritarian societal organizations which destroys free will and conscience.

Basically put, no one can exercise conscience when not given a choice. Thus censorship stunts personal growth and works against experiencing the fullest quality of life possible.

I am sure you are not in favor of restricting any ones right to that full and rich quality of life and personal growth which is only developed through being responsible for making decisions for oneself?