Alex:
I just wanted to add my 2 cents to that news story about Playboy at 7-11.
When I was in Oslo, Norway is the spring of 2001, one thing I noticed right away was that there were porn magazines everywhere! They sol them in the train station, convenience stores, even in a little store in the mall. And I'm not talking just Playboy, I'm talking PORN mags! There was also an "adult" store on the main strip where everyone walks by. And they also showed full nudity on
television after 10pm. This, being an American living in the bible belt shocked me.
But what also shocked me was I didn't see any teenage kids with babies. From what I understood, most young people there were sexually active, but there is a very low teen and un-wed mother pregnancy rate. They also have a very low crime rate, with VERY little violent crimes. So, if porn is so dangerous to children and causing the decay of our society, then why is it that Japan and European countries don't have the problems we do? Because they teach responsibility rather than using religion and politics to try to surpress one of the most basic human desires.
I hate to tell all you Right Wing Bible Bangers this, but if you get rid of all the porn on Earth, people are still gonna have sex! They are still going to think about sex and they are still doing to have sexual desire. And it really makes me want to puke when I hear people say, "We have to protect our children"
Adults talk like children are some other species of human that aren't going to experience the same things as they.
Ok, I agree that six or seven years olds shouldn't be looking at Hustler, but sexual curiosity is only human. It's not going to turn a child into a stark raving lunatic just because he sees some tits! Those same children are going to grow up, become adults, and have sex! Do you think that
children of tribes in Africa or the Amazon who have never seen TV or a magazine don't think about sex and grow up to have sex?
Think about it! Quit using your religious brew - ha ha to try and save the world
from you feel embarrassed to talk about because your idiot parents couldn't talk to you about sex.
I just want to give you one more thing for you to consider. When I was growing up, the only talk my parents had with me about sex was , "don't do it, you'll get
yourself in trouble". Any nudity or sex in a movie or explicit dialog about sex, and my parents would turn it off or make me go in the other room. This continued on until I was a teenager. Well, at the same time, I was allowed to watch as much violence as I wanted. I watched all the ninja movies, Rambo,
and my father took me to see all the Vietnam movies that came out like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket.
Did the lack of seeing sex in media keep me from wanting to see it or find out about it? HELL NO! If anything, it made me want to see what I was missing! I would buy single pages ripped out of smut mags for $3 or $4 dollars a pop. And when I progressed into my later teen years, even though I was very
un-violent, I was a sex fiend! Is it possible that there was some connection between my sexual hunger and the suppression I had subjected to when I was younger in life? Who knows. But seeing as how I didn't turn into a violent criminal from watching violent movies, I seriously doubt I would have become a sex fiend or sexual deviate just from seeing alittle skin on the screen. And from what I've read and seen on crime shows, a lot of murders and rapes are committed by people who were touch that sex is dirty and a sin and
didn't have a healthy way to explore their desires.
And we won't even get into that whole thing with priests!
Bottom line: Abstinence or sexual suppression DOES NOT
kill the desire for sex!
Jason - Anderson, IN
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