Thank you for sharing this article. the situation is same in india too. - karthik navayan
On 2/24/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > As a suggestion it would be helpful to make a distinction between > normal curiosity about the opposite sex, art that shows nudes in studio > poses, > classic erotic arts, light-hearted humor, and visuals that married couples > > may enjoy together, vs. actual hard core porn. Otherwise the article > makes telling points, > BR > . > . > . > > > > Christian Post > > > Pornography's Tragic Price > > > > By _Karen Gushta_ (http://www.christianpost.com/author/karen-gushta/) , > Op-Ed Contributor > February 23, 2013|6:21 pm > This is not a subject I enjoy writing about. Yet is it so serious, that as > > Christians, I believe we need to shine a light on it and do our utmost to > combat it. It's not "someone else's problem." It's a problem that is > corroding the soul of America and it has probably touched the life of > someone you > know-maybe someone in your own family. Statistics show that 9 out of 10 > teens have been affected by it. > I'm talking about the problem of pornography. Writing for the Baptist > Press, (bpnews.net, 5/17/2012) Doug Carlson calls it a "pandemic." "In this > > digital age, the images are no longer limited to salacious magazines or > adult > stores. Such content is readily available on the Internet, on smart phones, > > on cable and satellite TV, in hotels." The problem is, writes Carlson, "No > > longer do viewers have to actively look for it; it looks for them." > Yes. Pornography is a stalker. One has to be vigilant or you'll > inadvertently walk into one of its traps. Perhaps, like me, you've done a > search and > found images that could only be judged pornographic. > Carlson says that at $13 billion a year, the porn industry piles up more > revenue than any of the major _sports_ > (http://www.christianpost.com/topics/sports/) organizations. Are Americans > becoming bigger fans of pornography > than of major league sports? > Well, there's nothing "sporting" about how pornography is affecting our > _youth_ (http://www.christianpost.com/topics/youth/) . As the website, > ProtectKids.com points out, exposure to pornography: > • May incite children to act out sexually against other children > • Shapes attitudes and values > • Interferes with a child's development and identity. > These effects should not surprise us, considering the powerful grip > pornographic images can get on impressionable minds. But reading the > stories of > young boys who were caught in its snare at the tender ages of 10, 11, and > 12 > brings these facts home. > One boy said it led him to have sexual intercourse at age 13; another said > he started downloading the images and trying out the "weird things" he saw. > > The 10 year old boy, now age 14, wrote that it caused him to picture every > > girl he saw naked. > In an interview in the February issue of World,Donna Rice Hughes, the > originator of the ProtectKids.com site,explains how pornographers are > seducing > kids. > Nine out of 10 kids have seen pornography on the Internet. The > pornographers put free pictures and free videos and everything else on the > Internet in > order to get people to come to their site and get hooked on the material > before they ever get charged for it. We have today, in this country, > absolutely no regulation with respect to softer-core material. > Thus images that would have made us blush a couple of generations ago are > so commonplace that we now see them on taxi-cab ads. How do we begin to > protect our children from this flow of filth? > Hughes says, "The harder-core material, including sex acts or any deviant > material like bestiality, group sex, and rape, violence, everything else, is > > prosecutable for adults as well as for minor children."But, as > Politico.com reported (1/17/2013) the U.S. Department of Justice has > stopped > prosecuting adult pornographers. It has prosecuted some child > pornographers, but > since the end of the Bush administration, the DOJ has not filed any new > charges against purveyors of adult pornography. > It's good that the Obama administration is going after child pornographers. > > The problem is the easy access youngsters have to adult pornography.In a > 2010 interview with Truth in Action Ministries, Hughes, who works with > Enough is Enough, a non-profit dedicated to making the internet safer for > children and families, pointed to one of the major loopholes. "There have > been > very few prosecutions over the past 16 years of any type of obscenity on > the > Internet. So what this means is that kids can get for free what adults > couldn't even get in a triple-X-rated bookstore." > Sexual imagery is pervasive in advertising, TV programs, magazines, and > yes, even taxi-cab ads, causing youth to experiment with sexuality at > younger > and younger ages. "Worst of all, says Zachary Gappa, Director of Research > for the Center for a Just Society, "parents are complicit in all this. They > > accept [the] idea that their children will act-out sexually and that there > > is nothing to be done about the barrage of sexual images fed to them every > > day." Yet although more parents are now using internet filters to protect > against pornography, almost 50 percent do not. > "Sexting," sending naked pictures of oneself through text or email, is now > > becoming common among teens. A study reported in the September 2012 JAMA > Pediatrics found that 28 percent of the students in seven southeast Texas > high schools said they had sent a "sext." The percentage of those who had > been > asked to send one was almost twice as high-57 percent. > In an article in The Telegraph (1/27/2013) Cole Morton wrote about boys who > > "have explicit images of up to 30 different girls on their phone. They > swap them like we used to swap football cards. If they fancy a girl, they > send > her a picture of their genitals. As one teenage girl said after the report > > came out, sending pictures of your body parts is 'the new flirting'" > Parents need to be pro-active to protect their children from this type of > peer influence and pressure. They should not apologize for actively > monitoring their children's interactions online, on Facebook, and on their > phones. > There is no way to undo the harm done if your child succumbs to the > pressure to respond to a sext, as a number of girls have tragically found > out. > One way to stop the filth is to go after the producers. According to > Patrick A. Trueman at MercatorNet.com, "A handful of companies control > large > numbers of porn sites, so a few well-placed prosecutions would go a long > way in > cleaning up the Internet, where most kids find hardcore pornography." > Donna Rice Hughes says that we need a three pronged approach to protect our > > children. The Department of Justice should prosecute pornographers to the > full extent of the law. In addition, citizens can expose those businesses > that promote or make pornography accessible. > And finally, the most important step is for parents to take an active role > in protecting their children. For more information on how you can do so, > visit ProtectKids.comand PureIntimacy.org, where you can also find articles > > on how to talk with your children about social media > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- B.Karthik Navayan, http://karthiknavayan.wordpress.com/ -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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