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Children and Pornography Online
Original article here: http://www.pureintimacy.org/piArticles/A000000582.cfm As more and more children access the Internet, they are being exposed to pornography and predators of the worst kind. by Daniel Weiss Despite the persistent efforts of the U.S. Congress to shield children from such offensive and addictive materials, online pornography has been allowed to flourish. As more and more children [...]
$23 million bond set for teacher accused of ‘bondage’ photos of kids (NEWS)
Originally reported by CNN here: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/01/justice/california-teacher-bondage/?hpt=hp_t3 By Alan Duke 01/01/2012 Los Angeles (CNN) – Bond was set at $23 million Wednesday for a Los Angeles elementary school teacher who allegedly took bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom — $1 million for each of the 23 counts he faces of lewd acts [...]
Can Pornography Trigger Depression? (Research)
Article originally posted in Psychology Today here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-heart-porn-addiction/201111/can-pornography-trigger-depression By Kevin B. Skinner 11/2/2011 Do you think that people who frequently view pornography are more prone to depression? Or do you think that depressed people are more prone to view pornography? Why am I talking about pornography and depression? Pornography is a pretty hot topic in our society (pun intended). [...]
Is porn really destroying 500,000 marriage annually? (Opinion)
Originally posted at Psychology Today here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-porn-addiction/201112/is-porn-really-destroying-500000-marriages-annually By Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D. 12/12/2011 In a 2004 testimony before the United States Senate, Dr. Jill Manning shared some interesting data regarding pornography and relationships. In her research she found that 56 percent of divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites.1 Another source, the American Academy of Matrimonial [...]
Inside Porn Addiction – Influence on Sexual Intimacy (RESEARCH)
Article originally posted on Psychology Today here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-porn-addiction/201201/pornographys-influence-sexual-intimacy By: Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D 1/31/2012 Pornography’s Influence on Sexual Intimacy Is porn helping or hurting sexual intimacy in relationships? Published on January 31, 2012 by Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D. in Inside Porn Addiction Have you ever wondered how many couples use pornography to enhance their sexual relationship? I haven’t seen too [...]
MEDIA MUST DO BETTER ON PORN DEBATE (Opinion)
Article originally appeared here: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/02/01/3420737.htm By: Emma Rush 2/1/2012 The media is conspicuously failing to live up to its role with respect to the porn debate. The latest exhibit: recent coverage of Melinda Tankard Reist and her work against pornography. The great liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that freedom of speech matters because it is [...]
Fifth of kids have accessed porn on phones – Scotland (NEWS)
Article originally posted here: http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/01/30/fifth-of-kids-have-accessed-porn-on-phones/ MORE than one in five children in Scotland have accessed inappropriate web content on their mobile phones, a new survey says. Around 25% of children inScotlandalso reported being a victim of bullying on their mobile phones in the survey, well above the UK average of 12%. The study, carried out [...]
Woman says child saw ‘hardcore porn’ at Lake City library (NEWS)
Article originally posted here: http://mynorthwest.com/11/620022/Woman-says-child-saw-hardcore-porn-at-Lake-City-library By: Brandi Kruse 01/31/2012 A Seattle mother told a neighborhood blog Tuesday that her young daughter saw a man watching “hardcore pornography” at a Lake City library, and there was nothing she could do about it. Julie Howe told Lake City Live that she asked the librarian to move the man to a [...]
Lawyer Demands Twitter Stop Porn Peddlers From Tweeting Disney Characters and Porn to Children (News)
Article posted here originally: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-demands-twitter-stop-porn-174200814.html December 20, 2011 ROCKLIN, Calif. , Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As millions of children get ready to open their iPhones, iPads, and other smart devices Christmas morning, SkM Consulting sent an urgent “tweet” and letter to Twitter’s CEO demanding that the popular social networking site immediately delete Twitter profiles targeting [...]
Porn blamed for children’s problem sexual behaviour (OPINION)
Find article originally posted here: http://www.theage.com.au/national/porn-blamed-for-childrens-problem-sexual-behaviour-20120113-1pzhh.html#ixzz1kylnfAJI By Adrian Lowe January 14, 2012 VICTORIAN children as young as five are being referred to specialist programs to address sexually abusive behaviour – and the number of minors exhibiting such behaviour is exploding. The availability of pornography through portable devices drastically affects a child’s understanding of acceptable sexual [...]
‘I Was Drugged And Forced To Do Porn’: Surviving The Sex Trade (NEWS)
A look at how human trafficking victims fare in life and love after surviving the sex trade. Samantha* is 30 years old. She is a makeup artist, a nanny, a professing Christian and an advocate against human trafficking. This cause is near and dear to her heart because she has been there herself. At the [...]
Sex Addiction: Are Pastors More Vulnerable to Sexual Temptation (Opinion)
Find complete original post here: http://www.christianpost.com/news/sex-addiction-are-pastors-more-vulnerable-to-sexual-temptation-67935/ By: Alex Murashko Date: January 25, 2012 Although no one is immune to sexual temptation, a pastor leading an online pornography addiction recovery ministry says that church leaders may be especially vulnerable to sexually moral failure. Pastor Jeff Fisher, whose past secret addiction to pornography was discovered while pastoring a [...]
How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls (Opinion)
Find full, original post here at New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/how-pimps-use-the-web-to-sell-girls.html?_r=1 By: Nicholas D. Kristof In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn. When a surprised woman answered, the girl pleaded for a phone. She called her mother, and then dialed 911. Damon Winter/The New York Times * The girl, whom I’ll call [...]
Candidates Respond to Obscenity Law Inquiry (News)
Politics and Government Bill Bumpas January 12, 2012 Three of the Republican presidential candidates have told a leading organization that fights against pornography and indecency that they are committed to enforcing the country’s pornography laws. Morality in Media launched an effort in October to contact the 2012 presidential candidates, including President Barack Obama, to get [...]
Gay Men Forgotten in the Anti-porn Debate (News)
Online Opinion by Matthew Holloway January 9, 2012 Over the past decade there has been a revival of debate surrounding the ethics of porn; during the 1970′s through to the 1980′s there was strong opposition to pornography from both the left and right of politics. Opposition on the right was from a conservative perspective focused [...]
