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Congress must ensure that obscenity laws are enforced so that children are not exposed to pornography on the Internet, researchers and advocates of Internet safety said Tuesday.
Speaking at a briefing at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, researchers said because obscenity laws have not been upheld or enforced, illegal adult pornography has flooded and polluted the Internet.
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Under the law, illegal adult pornography is known as obscenity. Obscenity is defined as graphic material that focuses on sex or sexual violence, and it includes lewd exhibition of the genitals, close-ups of graphic sex acts and deviant activities such as group sex, bestiality and incest.
"It continues to grow and to spread and has reached epidemic proportions," Mrs. Hughes said. "We are facing a national crisis that is every bit as damaging to our citizens and our culture as the oil spill is to the Gulf and the Gulf community."
Statistics show that seven in 10 children have accidentally accessed pornography on the Internet and one in three have done so intentionally. Forty percent of children accidentally access Internet pornography through innocent word searches such as "water sports."
Well. This article seems to infer that internet pornography is just now reaching epidemic proportions. I'd say it's been that way for at least 15 years, maybe longer.
I think internet pornography will be impossible to eradicate, much like the 'war on drugs' will never work. I do think there should be more controls established by responsible websites, though, to ensure that pornographic ads do not pepper their pages. It would be nice if search engines could be more streamlined, for example, though I don't know that it's really possible. I recall, for instance, some years ago when my oldest daughter was around 11 years old and wanted to find some creepy pictures of monsters during the Halloween season; I told her to run an image search on Google for 'monster', and I was appalled at the various images of monstrous organs that were included in the results. No kind of filtering or excluding seems to weed all of those out.
On one hand, it seems that the abundance of pornography on the web will, if nothing else, serve to help destroy some of the silly puritanical values against sex that continue to pervade the world, especially here in the U.S.
On the other hand, there's maybe too much extreme and vile stuff out there. In this era of computers, cell phones, ipods and pad--all connected to the internet--there will be exposure unless you completely shelter your children and sequester them away from any contact with the world.|||Lol, as if anyone is actually trying to do anything against pornography.|||The main issue with pornography is that it's often the first thing some people learn about sex (or at least, how it's done), but what it shows is actually quite unrealistic. I don't just mean body shapes, which can't that good for self-esteem... but it's also setting up unrealistic expectations of how its done, and what it should feel like.
Education is one thing, but this is not educational.|||Meh, the internet is for porn. Everybody knows that.|||Internet Porn stats. Pretty sad commentary on our culture, IMO.
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- 35% of all downloads are porn
- 20% of men [actually] admit to watching porn online at work
- 12% of ALL internet sites are pornographic (that's 24.6 million sites)
For me, there's too strong of a link between devaluing/exploiting women and human trafficking to defend porn as a noble venture or "a-okay." You never know who these girls are, and there's a good chance that many of them are stuck doing what they do, unable to escape to a healthy life and vocation. How's that for a turn-on? ...
/realizes the flame-retardant necessary when dissing porn on the 'nets...|||I'm far less concerned about porn than I am about prostitution. That is, I'm more concerned about the human trafficking and the horrible circumstances and conditions that these working girls are under. Legalizing would alleviate all of this but of course the same puritanical groups that claim they have the girls' interest in mind (porn devalues women blah blah blah) are also the same groups who will have none of it when it comes to legalizing prostitution.
Oh and also these are the same groups who oppose sex education and as Alaris points out, porn is then usually the first exposure kids have to sex now. Good job puritans!|||Making it out to be some kind of growth is just disgusting. Now I have an image in my head of some pornstar covered in ulcers...|||Quote:
For me, there's too strong of a link between devaluing/exploiting women and human trafficking to defend porn as a noble venture or "a-okay."
Porn doesn't devalue women.
Well, ok. But not all porn.|||Quote:
Making it out to be some kind of growth is just disgusting. Now I have an image in my head of some pornstar covered in ulcers...
And you know somewhere out there is someone who's willing to pay to watch it...
|||Quote:The main issue with pornography is that it's often the first thing some people learn about sex (or at least, how it's done), but what it shows is actually quite unrealistic. I don't just mean body shapes, which can't that good for self-esteem... but it's also setting up unrealistic expectations of how its done, and what it should feel like.
Education is one thing, but this is not educational.
I agree with this.
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