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 [...]
Ex-Portland cop: Stress led to sex crimes (News)
Seattle Pi December 18, 2011 KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Stress from an on-duty shooting prompted a former Portland, Ore., police officer to start committing sex crimes, he wrote in a letter to Washington prison officials. Ryan Graichen served as a Portland Officer from 1998 to 2006. In 2000, a 71-year-old lawyer suffering from dementia pointed [...]
Careful, Addicted to Pornography (News)
Socyberty by Nurul Sakinah December 27, 2011 Currently estimated at more than 420 million adults regularly accessing pornographic sites. The rapid development of technology, particularly the internet, it makes pornography can be accessed easily and cheaply without sounding sleazy. Unfortunately, the site’s special adults also accessed by children. In 2004, the board of experts in [...]
Nigeria: Stream of Pornography On Our Streets (News)
A casual stroll through the streets of Abuja and other Nigerian cities will reveal a disconcerting trend of insidious pornograpy slowly creeping in. A young man within the age range of 30-35 years walks slowly towards a group of vendors selling DVDs and VCDs along the long stretch of road leading from the Nyanya expressway, [...]
Coping With Sex Addiction (News)
The Telegraph Sally Williams January 7, 2012 ‘I close the curtains, take the phone off the hook, turn off my mobile, and if I have plans – say a dinner with a friend – I just cancel. Then I log onto various websites and look at images, look at movies. It’s pure, unadulterated physical enjoyment. [...]
Md. duct-tape rapist pleads guilty in 5th case; sentence adds 50 years to his prison term (News)
Washington Post Associated Press January 3, 2012 HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An acknowledged pornography addict convicted of four sexual assaults in two states pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fifth — the 1998 rape of a woman whose hands were bound with duct tape by a man hiding in her car. Cambodian immigrant Pov Srun, 40, is [...]
The Women Who Love Men Who Love Porn (Opinion)
Fearless Blog December 20, 2011 Let’s be real. Everyone’s uncomfortable right now. I know, and I’m sorry. But the purpose of Fearless has become to talk about the things that no one will talk about. So let’s do this. Deep breaths.{disclaimer: this isn’t about my relationships. k? I don’t want this to look like I’m [...]
Addicted to Online Porn (News)
Marine Corps Times By Jon R. Anderson Mar 31, 2010 The Marine staff sergeant knew things were spinning out of control. What he once thought was a harmless flirtation with online porn had become a full-blown obsession. But looking at photos and videos of men and women having sex wasn’t hurting anyone, he tried to [...]
Ominous News for Porn Users: Internet Addiction Atrophies Brains (News)
Psychology Today by Marnia Robinson & Gary Wilson June 25, 2011 Here’s some headline news for anyone who has been trained that Internet porn use is harmless: Physical evidence of addiction processes is showing up in the brains of avid Internet video-gamers. What’s more, use of online erotica has greater potential for becoming compulsive than [...]
Pornography and Attitudes Supporting Violence Against Women: Revisiting the Relationship in Nonexperimental Studies (Research)
Gert Martin Hald, Neil M. Malamuth, and Carlin Yuen University of California, Los Angeles, California University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark New York University Law School, New York City, New York Abstract: In this study, we examined the unique contribution of pornography consumption to the longitudinal prediction of criminal recidivism in a sample of 341 child [...]
The Social Costs of Smut (News)
First Things December 8, 2011 Matthew Schmitz A study by British researchers has found that men and women are unable to detect any difference between statements on women made by convicted rapists and those drawn from so-called “lads’ mags.” The research due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology also revealed that most [...]
Two Men Convicted of Luring, Drugging, Raping Women for Porn (News)
Orlando Sentinel Dec. 7, 2011 By Wayne K. Roustan Two men, one a former police officer, were convicted in Miami federal court Wednesday of luring, drugging, raping and videotaping women to sell to pornography websites and stores, according to U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer. Lavont Flanders Jr., 40, of Miami Gardens, and Emerson “Jah-T” Callum, [...]
Pornography—or Persons as Objects (Opinion)
CatholicCulture.org By Dr. Jeff Mirus December 06, 2011 Did you know that more than 80% of all pornographic web pages originate in the United States? As with so many other things, we Americans are the chief exporters of pornography to the world. One could make a powerful foreign policy case against pornography, as it is [...]
Military Sexual Trauma Related to PTSD (News)
Psych Central By ROBERT WEISS LCSW, CSAT-S Many military veterans suffer from PTSD related to experiences of sexual trauma. An even greater concern is the alarming amount of stigma surrounding the discussion and treatment of PTSD and addiction within the military community. In recent decades, these addictions and coping mechanisms have become more sexualized, manifesting [...]
Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children (Research)
by Victor B. Cline, PhD (c) 2002 Abstract: Whether pornography has any significant harmful effects on consumers continues to be a controversial issue, not only for average citizens but also for behavioral scientists. Some social commentators claim that pornography is mainly a form of entertainment, possibly educational, sometimes sexually arousing, but essentially harmless. Or, [...]
