Won't somebody puh-leeze think of the children!

Sure Gibo, why not Pornography is killing the children. Much like greenhouses gases, people who speed, fast food outlets, addictive video games, chocolate, cigarettes, a decline literacy rates & sporting involvement, the internet and aggressive dogs.

In fact, I'd argue cigarettes are much worse. But there isn't as much moral outrage from the christian lobby over that one. It's rather confusing to be honest.

In relation to my name - I find it ironic you see it as abrupt. The concept behind it is essentially rejecting the adoption of either a left wing or right wing view in favour of sensible discussion of both - which to my way of thinking, is manifestly unconfrontational. If it's hard to type, by all means use an acronym.

Is Porn killing women and children?? No.

Sex crimes are essentially a crime where the perpetrator is displaying their power over their victim, from the reading that I have done it is this display of power over their victim that really turns the offender on, not the act itself. Pornography is often used as a tool to prime the juvenile victim for what it about to happen, to normalise it for them in order for the offender to instill a feeling of self-blame on the victim and protect themselves following the abuse.

Offenders are in the main those who have suffered abuse themselves as children, or have an overwhelming need to impose their power over someone else. Porn does not trigger this. If all porn was banned and destroyed today the crimes would still occur. Offenders (and may I say a Church that tells the offenders that they only need to ask God for forgiveness and then it is all alright and they will be protected within that Church) are what is destroying that trust between men, women and children.

With the confession also comes the repentence, the turning away Meelamay. Committed christian churches will preach both if they expect to stay under Christs banner.

The legal definitions of being raped have also changed, and I believe that in times gone before if a woman was wearing a miniskirt then she was 'asking for it' and the perpetrator would not be convicted. It is not pornography that has increased this, we just have a greter awareness of this particular crime nowadays.

I agree with CJ, Gibo is funny.