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Defend America on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:07:52 PM
March 31, 2010 4:00 A.M.
Getting Serious About Pornography
It is ravaging American families.
Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a
family simply by distorting a man’s perception of his wife. Picture an
addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation
incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it
produces more annual revenue — $97 billion worldwide in 2006 — than all
of the leading technology companies combined. Consider a narcotic so
insidious that it evades serious scientific study and legislative
action for decades, thriving instead under the ever-expanding banner of
the First Amendment.
According to an online statistics firm,
an estimated 40 million people use this drug on a regular basis. It
doesn’t come in pill form. It can’t be smoked, injected, or snorted.
And yet neurological data suggest its effects on the brain are
strikingly similar to those of synthetic drugs. Indeed, two authorities
on the neurochemistry of addiction, Harvey Milkman and Stanley
Sunderwirth, claim it is the ability of this drug to influence all
three pleasure systems in the brain — arousal, satiation, and fantasy —
that makes it “the
pièce de résistance among the addictions.”
Earlier this month, the Witherspoon Institute released a
report
examining “The Social Costs of Pornography,” signed by more than 50
scholars representing a wide array of professions, academic
disciplines, and political views. The report details the considerable
social costs that pornography exacts upon men, women, and children.
http://article.nationalreview.com/429884/getting-serious-about-pornography/anonymous?page=1