Earlier this month columnist Naomi Wolfe of New York Magazine wrote an artice entiltled
The Porn Myth
In the end, porn doesn't whet men's appetites—it turns them off the real thing.
Ms. Wolf continue to outline some of the effects of internet porn on men and their desires toward women. The fact that internet porn is wildly addicting is well known. Studies indicate that the same areas of the brain aere stimulated by porn as by crack cocaine and that the addiction can be almost immediate.
Another assertion is that internet porn has developed behaviors in men that are completely deviant in their nature. The general availability of porn as caused men to bring sexual practices home to the wives that are insane. The use of bottles, machines, animals, sado masochistic behaviors such as whipping and bondage. The worst of these is the crazed idea that virtual rape is somehow OK.
What is not debatable is that the level of sexual crime includng pedopelia, abduction of teenagers and children through chatroom liasons has skyrocketed. The incidence of rape has also exploded largely, in my opinion, due to the easy availability of violent sex content on porn sites.
I was reading the comments following Ms. Wolfe's article and noticed one by a person identified only as BRS. His coments is as follows:
" I can't wait to find you, rape you in the ass and then make you taste your own shit. You are going to love it, you little whore."
That this cowardly pervert posted this in a public arena is mind boggling in itself, but the rage that is shown to the author and her article is insane. I would hope that law enforcement is already tracking this man down.
Internet porn has a way of triggering hidden flaws in our psyches that we never knew were there. The program "to Catch a Predator" invariably showed the the perpretrators as saying that they didn't know what came over them. Even as the child of an alcoholic has the predisposition to alcoholism he will never be an alcoholic if he never drinks. Once he takes a drink then the trigger is pulled and he may descend into alcohol addiction.
The same with sexual disorders, a man may never know he has a hidden sexual appetite for children until he stumbles onto a child porn site, the same for violent sex. Even those who were heterosexual found that they had storng homosexual impulses only after they first saw graphic homosexual porn.
The European Union is in a furor today about the unlikely possibility that online porn will be outlawed. The detractors of this idea are screaming freedom of speech yet the reality is that they are afraid to lose the fuel for their addictions. We should do all of our nations a favor and outlaw pornography for the madness that it is.
