Exodus: Live Out Loud

Teen-Targeted Books Promote Alcohol, Drugs and Sexual Experimentation

From WorldNetDaily:

Publishers Weekly calls it "A nasty, guilty pleasure." So what is this book filled with shocking profanity, characters guzzling alcohol and smoking cigarettes throughout, taking illegal drugs, glorifying hedonism and selfishness, and where sex (including homosexuality) is always on their minds? Is this book and others like it tucked away at an "adult bookstore"? No, it is a novel from the No. 1 best-selling series titled "Gossip Girl," and it is probably at your local library and bookstore in the teen section. Teen People magazine dubs these books "'Sex and the City' for the younger set."

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In addition, groups that promote homosexuality to youth also offer dangerous influence through reading materials. GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), which is the group behind the Gay-Straight Alliance club network, promotes a list of gay-affirming reading materials for students. Here are some of the selections they suggest for 7th to 12th grade readers.

Revolutionary Voices by Amy Sonnie is comprised of interviews with LGBT-identified youth from around the globe. One of the individuals showcased describes “his journey into sex work as a way of uplifting his self esteem.” The interview talks about how “doing sex work in drag” and sadomasochism can be “empowering” experiences.

Free Your Mind by Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman is a guide-to-life for youth who think they may be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. In truth, this book is full of deceptive, dangerous advice. Teens are encouraged to find “meaningful” new “relationships” via gay and lesbian chat rooms on the internet. The book also greatly overstates the protection offered by condoms, and lists “bathing together” and mutual masturbation as “safe” sexual practices.

Find out what books are available to teens in your public schools and libraries. If the only books addressing these topics are like the ones listed above, consider donating books from the Exodus Bookstore, so they will be available to questioning teens who go browsing in the libraries for answers.

GSA Network Board Member Resigns Amid Pornography Allegations

From Family News in Focus:

by Steve Jordahl

Peter Robertson resigned from the board of GSA Network, California’s largest organizer of school clubs that support gay teens, when it was discovered that he is also a pornographer. It appears he recruited young subjects during his tenure.

Mike Ensley was 17 and living in the gay lifestyle when Robertson asked him to pose nude.

“He identified himself as a photographer and just introduced himself as a friend, basically, and told me what he did and expressed interest in taking photographs.”

When Ensley said he was underage, Robertson asked him to call when he turned 18. Ensley has come out of the gay lifestyle and now works for Exodus International. He was astonished to see Roberson’s name on the Board of GSA Network.

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Former Boy Scouts Executive Convicted for Homosexual Child Porn

A former executive with the Boy Scouts of America  headquarters was sentenced in Fort Worth, Texas to eight years in federal prison and supervised release for life for possessing child pornography. - Jim Kouri, The Conservative Voice

Porn Again

http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:129516

""We want the church to be conversant with the culture at large," Samuelson said. "People think of church as a museum; it's nice to look at but you have to keep it at arm's length.

"I'm encouraged by the willingness to confront something like pornography, but there's a danger to giving it too much credence. They say it's about porn, but really this event is about God," Samuelson said.

It was the second week St. Paul's Evensong service was dedicated to a talk called "Designer Sex," which focused on the intersection of Christianity and sex. This week's presentation dovetailed with National Porn Sunday. Outside the room where the service was held, a table displayed books about Christian views on sex, with titles like The Game Plan: The Men's 30-day Strategy for Attaining Sexual Integrity , Real Sex: the Naked Truth About Chastity and Sex for Christians "- Adam Bulger, Hartford Advocate News, Oct. 13, 2005

Canadian Women’s Group Exposes Homosexual Activist Opposition to Child Porn Law

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05092605.html

"Influential gay activist political tactics against child porn laws and raising the age of consent has been a disturbing and on-going phenomenon that the public is not aware of according to leaders of organizations fighting child porn...On July 20, Canada’s House of Commons passed Bill C-2 which added amendments to the Criminal Code on matters related to child pornography... Bill C-2, says Landolt “includes some serious loopholes for those charged with violations of our child pornography law”...Canada’s most prominent, and often government funded, homosexual activist organization, EGALE, opposes raising the age of consent and that the mild amendments to the child pornography law “made the homosexual community decidedly unhappy”.  - LifeSiteNews.com, Sept. 26, 2005

Pornographic Web Sites to have New Address: “XXX”

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060209.html

“By moving forward with .xxx, the online adult-entertainment industry is taking part in a pro-active approach to its presence on the Internet, making an identifiable commitment to responsible behaviour and to the development of best business practices,” said ICM Registry Chairman and President Stuart Lawley in revealing the new domain name for pornographic web content. The registration for use of the new suffix will suggest, but not yet mandate, that site owners put in place measures to protect children from unwittingly viewing their content.

Overcoming XXX -- church helps those fighting sex, pornography addictions

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/16/top_story/news01.txt

[Note: While this article is not specific to homosexuality, it does discuss many sexual addiction and marriage issues that are relevant to recovery.]

By Tony Lystra

Jan 16, 2005 - 12:30:23 am PST

The first week is always the most difficult, Lonnie Wheeldon told the men. Everyone is ashamed at first. Sharing the details of a secret life is not easy.

The four men, all married and ranging in age from their mid-30s to early 50s, had gathered on a recent Saturday morning in a small room at the Kelso-Longview Community Seventh-day Adventist Church. In front of each was a crisp, spiral-bound text called, "Pure Freedom, Breaking the Addiction to Pornography."

New Library in SF takes "research" to an all time LOW!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/29/DDG92AHN9T1.DTL

Whatever your taste in pornography, new library has room for more

John Koopman

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Carol Queen wants your old porn.

Not right now, not if you're using it. But later, when you want to purge it, replace it or, you know, when you're gone you could leave it to her in your will.

Queen will add it to the growing collection of erotica in the library of the Center for Sex and Culture. The center already has 7,000 erotic books, 2, 000 adult videotapes, 2,000 to 3,000 magazines and 1,000 pieces of erotic art. There is also a collection of old and antique sexual devices.

This is not about titillation; it's about research.

We're Not in G-Rated Kansas Anymore

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/latimests/20041206/ts_latimes/werenotingratedkansasanymore

Mon Dec 6, 755 AM ET

By Stephanie Simon Times Staff Writer

ABILENE, Kan. — Outside, the prairie lies dark and still. In the windowless gray building by the Interstate 70 offramp, a clerk with a tired face rings up sex toys. Need batteries for that she asks politely, again and again.

Two women in prim business suits gawk at a shelf of raunchy gag gifts, giggling. A truck driver searches thousands of DVDs for a pornographic movie. Near the Love Sling of Ecstasy, a wife confers with her husband by cellphone as she studies a tidy display of vibrators, hundreds of them, in every size and color.

Adult superstores like this are popping up all over rural America — brightly lighted, clean, as well-organized and well-stocked as a Wal-Mart.

Internet Porn: Worse than Crack?

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65772,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

By Ryan Singel

11:00 AM Nov. 19, 2004 PT

Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee's Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Therapy, called porn the "most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today."

"The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviors," Layden said. "To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it -- it's a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind."

Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever, Layden said.

Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist and advisor to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality echoed Layden's concern about the internet and the somatic effects of pornography.

"Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance," Satinover said. "That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can't do, in effect."

Porn filters expose flaws

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW - http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_243018.html -
PITTSBURGH, PA - When John Mihelcik clicked on GasBuddy.com, a Web site that tracks retail gasoline prices across the country, a message popped up on the Mt. Lebanon Public Library computer: "Access Denied -- the site you have chosen has been categorized as a sex site."

Manila destroys porn CDs

The Philippine Star - http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200408106303.htm -
MANILA - A dozen boxes of pornographic VCDs and DVDs and bundles of pornographic tabloids and magazines were destroyed yesterday as part of the Manila City government’s campaign against smut.

In Harm's Way: Children still at risk despite laws screening library computers

CITIZEN MAGAZINE - http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/coverstory/a0033017.cfm -
On Feb. 7, an 8-year-old girl at the Independence branch of the Free Library in downtown Philadelphia told her grandmother she had to use the ladies' room. Her grandmother - who was watching the girl's two younger siblings - decided to let her go alone. None of them realized what a devastating decision it would turn out to be.

Commentary: Media Gives Porn Industry Pass -- Again

By James L. Lambert
AGAPE PRESS - In an April 26 article entitled "The Cyperporn Generation," contributing writers from People magazine reported on research indicating "how online porn can color a child’s view of love and sex." The article portrayed the enormous growth of online porn by focusing on a suburban Riverdale (NJ) school class of 13-year-old girls and boys. According to the story, 100 percent of the 42 students in that class have at some time or another viewed online porn.

Pornography: the Degrading Behemoth (Part 2)

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57569

Alan Sears on Free Speech, Censorship -- and Fighting Back

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, JULY 29, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Pornography may be a thriving criminal enterprise, but a legal expert in the field believes the Church and the laity can stunt its growth.

Alan Sears, president and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, served as the executive director of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography under President Ronald Reagan.

Sears shared with ZENIT why pornography is not free speech, and why clergy and lay people need to break their silence and take action.

Q: Recently, the Supreme Court in the case of ACLU v. Ashcroft struck down the Child Online Protection Act as violating the First Amendment right to free speech. Why is pornography considered free speech?

Sears: First, the opinion was wrong. Advocates of a culture that supports the affirmation of life must reject any notion that most pornography is even "speech."

Of the five forms of pornography I mentioned earlier, at least four lack much, if any, constitutional protection even by the furthest stretch of the high court's imagination.

Obscenity and child pornography have never been within the bounds of "free speech," the First Amendment or equivalent state constitutions, except according to erratic decisions by courts in a few states such as Oregon and Hawaii that would amaze their founders.

Second, the term "pornography" is a generic, not legal, term. It relates to a broad range of sexual materials, some of which are protected by the First Amendment and some of which are not.

As noted by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California, in 1973: "Pornography derives from the Greek ('harlot' and 'graphos,' writing). The word now means 1) a description of prostitutes or prostitution 2) A depiction (as in a writing or painting) of licentiousness or lewdness: a portrayal of erotic behavior designed to cause sexual excitement."

Pornography: the Degrading Behemoth (Part 1)

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57511

Date: 2004-07-28

Alan Sears on the Evils of a Booming Enterprise

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, JULY 28, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A lawyer who has been fighting pornography for more than 20 years says it may be the "true hate literature" of our age.

Alan Sears, president and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, shared with ZENIT how pornography perpetuates hatred and exploitation of the human person and preys upon individuals' weaknesses for profit.

Q: What is your background in fighting pornography?

Sears: I had the privilege of serving as the executive director of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography [AGCP] during the Reagan administration and as the chief of the criminal section in an office of the United States Attorney. My colleagues and I wrote state and federal anti-obscenity laws, testified in Washington, D.C., and before 22 different state legislatures with 20 states adopting our recommendations.

God provided us the opportunity of speaking before committees of the British Parliament and at the Vatican, as well as training hundreds of law enforcement officials and attorneys -- from Australia to Scotland Yard -- on obscenity and related laws, and in how to successfully prosecute an obscenity case.

Q: How big of an industry is pornography?

Sears: First of all, let's define our terms.

Pornography includes several classes of material: obscenity, material harmful to minors, child pornography, indecency, and lawful but nonetheless pornographic depictions. The AGCP defined pornography as "sexually explicit material designed primarily for arousal." This is not a healthy "product"; therefore, I refuse to call its production an "industry."

Depending on the type of material, its offensiveness ranges from the "merely immoral" -- which depicts women and other persons as a subspecies of humans to be used, to be abused and to amuse -- to what I have always called "crime scene photographs," actual depictions of unlawful sexual behavior for profit or exploitation.

Gay bookstore awarded advanced costs in continuing fight against Canada Customs

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20040713/ca_pr_on_en/gay_bookstore_customs_1

Mon Jul 12, 8:46 PM ET

JEREMY HAINSWORTH

VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. judge has ruled a Vancouver gay and lesbian bookstore can have advanced costs for its continuing fight against book seizures by Canada Customs.

"Our trial is the actually the only venue for review for Canada Customs," said Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium spokesman Mark Macdonald. "Thousands of books have been stopped going to Canadian importers.

"It affects Charter rights of every citizen in the country," he said. "It affects the rights of artists to spread their word and works of the imagination to their intended audience."

The book battle has gone on for almost 20 years and cost the store more than $750,000, Macdonald said.

Media Group Finds Porn-Sex Crime Link

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/82004d.asp

By AFA Journal
July 8, 2004

(AgapePress) - Pornography has become nearly ubiquitous in American culture, and yet so many regard it as a harmless pursuit. However, in a recent report, media watchdog Morality in Media (MIM) has established what it calls a "causal connection" between pornography and violent sex crimes.

MIM's report knits together a compelling case using news accounts, the testimony of law enforcement officers, clinical case studies and common sense.

The report said that while pornography cannot be singled out as the sole cause of violent sex crimes, "there is ample evidence to support the conclusion that many violent sex crimes would not have occurred ... if the perpetrator had not been exposed to or become addicted to pornography."

MIM president Robert Peters said, "At a time when some commentators in the media are saying that pornography is widely accepted and harmless, we need to remind ourselves that common sense, anecdotal evidence and social science research all point in the opposite direction."

Peters was motivated to write the report because, in his words, "defenders of pornography are misleading the public" by using one of two deceptive arguments: pornography is harmless, or society lacks the necessary "conclusive scientific data" that pornography causes sex crimes to justify suppressing pornography. The MIM head maintains "conclusive scientific data" is not necessary.

'Sex-Drenched' Bill 'Subsidizes Promiscuity,' Pro-Life Group Says

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200406/POL20040630a.html

By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
June 30, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is blasting Democrat John F. Kerry and Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) for co-sponsoring a bill that the group says "subsidizes promiscuity, perpetrates immorality and promotes abortion."

The $1.2 billion measure, called the "Putting Prevention First Act" (S.2336), was introduced in the Senate on Planned Parenthood's 2004 Congressional Day of Action. The Senate version has seven other sponsors. The House companion bill (H.R. 4192) has 112 sponsors.

"This sex-drenched omnibus bill steamrolls several bad ideas from Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion entities into one big promiscuity-promoting nightmare," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of American Life League's STOPP International project.

Critics Say High Court Ruling Protects Pornographers, Harms Children

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/292004a.asp

By Jenni Parker
June 29, 2004

(AgapePress) - The United States Supreme Court ruled Tuesday (June 29) that Congress' latest attempt to protect innocent children from the devastating effects of Internet pornography, the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), is unconstitutional. In a 5-4 decision, the Court sided with the American Civil Liberties Union, ruling that filtering software was a less restrictive alternative to the requirements of COPA.

Attorneys with the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy are outraged by the decision. Senior litigation counsel Mike DePrimo described the justices' apparent "utter lack of concern for the irreparable harm pornography does to our most innocent citizens" as "astounding."

The court's opinion cited concerns about COPA's "potential for extraordinary harm and serious chill upon free speech." However, DePrimo contends the only real harm that pornographers would suffer if the law went into effect would be a loss of money. He says for the high court to find otherwise is "reprehensible."

The Family Research Counsel's senior legal advisor, Pat Trueman, who helped author the FRC's amicus brief in the case, also issued a statement in response to the ruling, calling it "yet another victory at the High Court for pornographers at the expense of America's children." He says companies that peddle porn should not have the luxury of exposing their filth to every child who may stumble onto their website.

Supreme Court rules against Child Online Protection Act

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/mc/20040629/tc_mc/supremecourtrulesagainstchildonlineprotectionact

By Grant Gross, IDG News Service MacCentral

The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) on Tuesday sided with a lower court injunction against a law intended to protect children from sexually explicit material posted online, saying the law is likely unconstitutional because less restrictive ways of shielding children from pornography are available.

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld the Third Circuit (news - web sites) Court of Appeals' injunction against enforcing the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1998, which allows for a fine of US$50,000 per day and a six-month prison sentence for posting online materials that are "harmful to minors." The Supreme Court's ruling sends the case back to the lower court to decide whether the law violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The case that challenged the law, Ashcroft vs. the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) (ACLU), pitted U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) against the civil liberties group, representing several publications, including Web sites that include information on sexually transmitted diseases. Among the publications the ACLU represented in the case were OBGYN.net. PlanetOut Corp., Philadelphia Gay News and Salon.com.

USPS Accused of Ignoring Pro-Family Pleas Regarding 'Playboy' Postcards

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/242004d.asp

By Rusty Pugh
June 24, 2004

(AgapePress) - A pro-family activist says the U.S. Postal Service won't even acknowledge the problem of pornography in the mail, much less deal with it.

Even after 25,000 parents asked the USPS to investigate Playboy's mailing of sex magazine offers to children, the agency has remain eerily quiet. Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the American Family Association, says children have received postcards offering discount prices for magazine subscriptions -- despite postal regulations forbidding it. He says the Postal Service has been "absolutely quiet" on the issue.

Randy Sharp
"We've contacted them on numerous occasions; we've sent several letters of request to investigate -- and they have done absolutely nothing," Sharp says. He notes that the Postal Service is a government entity whose employees are paid through taxpayer dollars, and that the agency is there to serve the American public and protect the public's interests -- "and our interest in our kids," he adds.

"We don't want our children getting sexually oriented advertisements from the Playboy company."

The USPS, Sharps states, is not above the law -- and should be accountable to the public. "They are not so big that they cannot be answerable to the people of the United States," he says.

Homosexual Porn to Run as AIDS Prevention Campaign

www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jun/040618b.html

LifeSite Special Report - Friday June 18, 2004 Across Canada; Funded by Health Canada
Viacom Outdoor will post ads on its billboards across the country

VANCOUVER, June 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Health Canada and a handful of AIDS groups are running a new national HIV ad campaign targeting homosexual men which feature graphic black and white photographs of men apparently engaging in sexual acts.

The ads contain slogans like “He came inside me,” “I came inside him” and “He likes it Raw”. The phrase, “think again” is being used to try to convince more homosexual sex-partners to use condoms. The pornographic photographs are explicit and make no effort to spare the viewer the details of the sex acts. They will be run by Viacom Outdoor on billboards across the country. The giant Viacom corporation, which has been attempting to launch a US gay Cable TV channel, is known for posting increasingly explicit sexual billboard and bus shelter ads on its numerous venues across Canada.

Health Canada spokesman, Aggie Adamczyk, denied that the ads were from Health Canada and told LifeSiteNews.com that AIDS Vancouver had sponsored them using funding from Health Canada. The funding included at least $450,000 over three years. Adamczyk cited HIV/AIDS statistics in defending the decision to fund AIDS Vancouver and said that it was up to the individual funding recipients to decide what the money was used for.

Smut Sites Fear Credit Crackdown

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63799,00.html/wn_ascii


By Randy Dotinga |
02:00 AM Jun. 11, 2004 PT

This month is going to be a big pain in the harness for one smut peddler. The company that processes its credit card payments is pulling out of the adult online business, leaving the site to scramble for alternative ways to accept money.

Under the worst-case scenario, the memberships of these .com patrons will expire on June 27, and they'll all have to sign up again. This is not exactly the kind of torment its customers are looking for.

Porn mogul pleads guilty to federal charges

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_04acbafaf28012230076.html
Prosecutors will shut down dozens of porn shops, including some in Central Texas

By Steven Kreytak

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Saturday, June 12, 2004

The U.S. government will shut dozens of adult video stores across Texas, including stores in Austin, Round Rock and eastern Travis County, after a Texas adult video store mogul and his son pleaded guilty in an Austin federal court Friday.

John K. Coil, 62, of Highland Village, a Dallas suburb, admitted mailing fraudulent tax returns and transporting obscene materials. Coil's 23-year-old son John A. Coil, also of Highland Village, admitted making false statements on a tax return.

The sprawling federal case, which was scheduled to go to trial next week, dismantled the bulk of a porn empire that Coil has built throughout the Southwest over three decades. It also included a rare federal obscenity conviction; the lead prosecutor said it was the first of its kind in the Austin federal judicial division since he joined the office in 1987.

Although the case has been brewing for nearly a decade, the pleas were made during a federal crackdown on obscenity led by Attorney General John Ashcroft. Adult obscenity prosecutions, as opposed to child porn, have risen in recent years after what some call lackadaisical prosecution under the Clinton administration.

Art Films Are Repackaged as Porn to Sell in China

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040609/film_nm/china_films_dc_1

Wed Jun 9, 8:21 AM ET
By Jonathan Ansfield

BEIJING (Reuters) - The cast and crew of "Maiden Work" waited six years for their underground film to surface in China. They never thought it would.
On finally seeing the packaged product, they almost wish it hadn't.

"The first to reveal the biggest controversy in Chinese film -- homosexuality," blares the DVD cover hyped by distributors, depicting two women entwined in an embrace.

The women do not appear in the film. In fact, it has no love scenes. "Maiden Work" is a perfect example of what Chinese tabloids have termed "art films repackaged as porn."

In a country where people watch far more films at home on disc players than in the cinema, "Maiden Work" is one of many thematically risque pictures that never stood a shot at the big screen.

Study: Web porn entices far more surfers than search

USA TODAY - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-06-03-popular-porn_x.htm -
SAN FRANCISCO — Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines, including market leader Google, a research firm said Thursday.

Family Ties vs. Internet Porn

http://www.profam.org/pub/xnr_cur.htm#Family_Ties_vs._Internet_Porn

Steven Stack, Ira Wasserman, and Roger Kern, "Adult Social Bonds and Use of Internet Pornography," Social Science Quarterly 85 [2004]: 73-88

Helping men keep their distance from the estimated 30,000 pornographic sites on the Internet is a major challenge, but three Michigan sociologists have discovered that men with strong ties to family, church, and conventional society are far less likely to be tempted by the sexual allures provided by the click of the computer mouse.

Using the General Social Survey for 2000, the researchers polled 531 respondents who reported having used the Internet, asking if they had looked at a sexually explicit website during the last 30 days. The strongest predictors of cyberporn use were gender (males being 6.43 times more likely to access pornographic websites than females), those who have engaged in sexual relations for pay (OR 3.7), and those ever having an extramarital affair (OR 3.18). In addition, persons living in the Pacific region, relative to other parts of the United States, were 2.44 times more likely to access Internet porn.

Other significant correlations (p<.05) were having a happy marriage, political conservatism, and church attendance, all of which were inversely related to use of Internet porn. In a multivariate analysis, the researchers found that significant predictors of that happy marriage included political liberalism (inverse association), having teenaged children, being white, and age.

Interest group presses city for library computer filters

USA TODAY - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-05-17-slc-library-filters_x.htm -
SALT LAKE CITY — The special-interest organization Communities for Decency wants the City Council to force the city's library system to install pornography filters on its public computers.

OFFICIALS REVEAL DETAILS OF CHURCH PORN INVESTIGATION

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SAN DIEGO - The seizure of computers at a Loma Portal church is part of an international child pornography investigation focusing on 130 San Diegans and thousands of others around the globe, it was reported Friday.

Law Enforcement Initiative Targets Child Pornography Over Peer-To-Peer Networks

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces today announced a national law enforcement initiative aimed at combating the growing volume of illegal child pornography distributed through peer-to-peer (P2P) file trafficking computer networks.

HIV Outbreak in Calif. Porn Films Contained

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040513/ts_nm/health_porn_dc_7

Wed May 12, 8:30 PM ET
By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The lucrative Los Angeles porn film industry, crippled by an HIV (news - web sites) outbreak last month, lifted a self-imposed moratorium on Wednesday after half the actors placed under quarantine were given the all-clear.

"We feel very confident that there will be no more HIV outbreaks. We have contained this outbreak," said Sharon Mitchell, director of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, or AIM, which runs an HIV-screening program for the industry.

The multibillion dollar industry in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, dubbed "Porn Valley," employs some 6,000 people in 200 production companies turning out dozens of pornographic films and videos a week.

California Porn Film Moratorium Lifted Early

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040512/film_nm/health_porn_dc_2

Wed May 12, 1:53 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A self-imposed moratorium on filming in the Los Angeles porn industry brought in after five actors tested positive for HIV (news - web sites) was lifted on Wednesday, a month earlier than expected.

"Many of the talent who have been quarantined for the last 30 days can safely return to work after several batteries of tests (for HIV) were performed," the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, or AIM, which runs an HIV-screening program for the industry, said on its Web site.

California's multibillion dollar adult film industry, which employs some 6,000 people mostly in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, imposed a voluntary 60-day shutdown on porn film production last month.

AIM director Sharon Mitchell told Adult Video News that about half of the 50 porn actors under quarantine had been cleared after testing negative three times in 45 days.

Sex and the Asian man

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DAVIS, CA - Wanting to know what the mostly Asian American class considered desirable, professor Darrell Hamamoto asked: What posters are on your bedroom walls?

The X-rated war: Prison pictures are a type of pornography

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The grainy images of abuse coming from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are as disturbing and offensive as they are unsettlingly familiar: a naked man is lying on a cement floor, a woman holding a leash tied to his neck; others are bound and piled naked in a pyramid or hooded and forced to simulate sex acts.

HIV Continues to Infect Porn Industry

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News and Commentary: 5/10/2004
By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel, CWA

The “Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation” (AIMHCF), which does monthly voluntary testing of porn performers for HIV, announced that five pornography “actors” have now tested positive for the AIDS virus. The outbreak has supposedly caused the porn industry to stop production, as it awaits test results of 45 other performers who are “quarantined” because they had sex with the first performer to be identified or someone with whom he had sex.

According to AIMHCF, the fourth performer, a transsexual named “Jennifer,” was diagnosed on May 4 in a case that appeared to be unrelated to the three earlier cases. Two of Jennifer’s on-screen sex partners have tested negative at least once since their last encounter with the actor on February 27. The AIMHCF claims that Jennifer has not worked in the industry since then, and considers the case isolated. The quarantine should be extended, however, if “Jennifer” is having sex outside the industry.

On May 5, the AIMHCF announced that a fifth porn “actress” had unprotected sex and contracted the virus while filming a scene with an HIV-positive actor with the screen name Darren James.

In April, James and a woman he performed with tested positive. The third case, involving a 26-year-old woman who had sex with James, was announced on May 5.

House May Oppose Online Pornography

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May 7, 2004

by Stuart Shepard, correspondent

Representatives hear testimony on how to fight peer-to-peer online pornography, but will there be enough willpower on Capitol Hill to act?

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce recently heard testimony about how easy it is, when searching well- known peer-to-peer networks for subjects popular with kids, to stumble across an alarming amount of pornography.

Porn Actors' Struggles Began Long Before HIV

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MONTREAL — He's a middle-aged black porn actor who had wanted to be a policeman. Known for his conscientiousness, he'd ask costars to refrain from smoking even as they were having unprotected group sex.

Fourth HIV Case Found in California Porn Industry

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Tue May 4, 6:06 PM ET
By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fourth adult film performer has tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites) but the case is unrelated to an outbreak that virtually shut down pornography production last month, an industry health care official said on Tuesday.

A transsexual actress who goes by the stage name Jennifer tested positive for HIV (news - web sites) on Tuesday and had last performed a sex scene on Feb. 27 with two male actors who have since tested negative, according to Sharon Mitchell of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation.

The foundation runs an HIV screening program that tests porn actors every three weeks for sexually transmitted diseases and issues certificates that allow them to work.

The actors involved in the latest case will be tested again to rule out any possibility of further transmission of the deadly virus, Mitchell said.

"This is an open and shut case of genealogy," she said. "We think it's contained."

With or Without Use of Condoms, Hardcore Pornographers Do Not Deserve a 'Seal of Approval'

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5/4/2004 8:00:00 AM

NEW YORK, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Robert W. Peters, president of Morality in Media, issued the following statement in response to Sharon Mitchell's op ed column, "How to Put Condoms in the Picture" (NY Times, 5/2/04).

Founder of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, Mitchell said that the answer to the hardcore pornography industry's latest AIDS crisis is more industry "self-policing." To be specific, she proposed that AIMHCF reward companies that require performers to use condoms with a "seal of approval." If "mainstream" cable and satellite systems and hotel chains would then show only films having the seal, the porn industry would have a financial incentive to follow the rules.

"There are a number of problems with Ms. Mitchell's proposal. First, most pornographers do not have contracts with mainstream cable and satellite systems and hotel chains and never will. What they do have is the Internet and a network of 'adult businesses' and other retail outlets nationwide that will be more than happy to sell 'condom free' hardcore pornography.

HIV Cases Prompt Talk of California Porn Crackdown

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Mon May 3, 7:50 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California must regulate its booming pornographic film industry, including some of its employment terms, if an HIV outbreak is to be contained, a state lawmaker said on Monday.

Three cases of the AIDS-causing HIV virus recently found among adult entertainers show the industry's self-regulation with monthly tests to screen for HIV are failing, Republican Assemblyman Tim Leslie told Reuters,

Leslie is promoting a bill that calls for mandatory testing of actors for sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) two weeks before a film shoot.

The bill, which lawmakers will take up in committee on Tuesday, also would bar infected actors from performing.

"Some of these STDs are very terrible and we've got to be on top of this thing," Leslie said. "This goes beyond entertainers infecting entertainers."

Activities once reviled as pornography keep creeping further into the mainstream

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Porn Health Tests Sought

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A state lawmaker has proposed legislation that would require adult film performers to be screened for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases before they could be hired for a pornographic movie and would bar producers from hiring anyone who tested positive for disease.

3rd Adult Movie Performer Tests for HIV

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Thu Apr 29, 9:17 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - A third adult movie performer tested positive Thursday for the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites) in the midst of an HIV (news - web sites) outbreak that has halted most production, according to the director of an AIDS testing service.

"This is not over," said Sharon Mitchell, executive director of the nonprofit Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, which screens performers for sexually transmitted diseases.

Mitchell declined to identify the woman diagnosed Thursday but said the performer had sex with five men before all were barred from adult movie sets under a voluntary quarantine in place since the first HIV case was announced on April 12.

A total of 53 people are on the quarantine list and dozens of producers have shut down production until further HIV testing gives the all-clear

The Polly Awards: Top Five Outrages on College Campuses

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Professors won't teach the Federalist Papers, but they will lecture on the "History of the Vibrator." Colleges refuse to fund anything having to do with "morals," but they readily provide money to bring porn stars to speak. Where there was once History 101, there is now "Sex Toys 101."

3 for phone porn in growing market

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Hutchinson has broken the ice on mobile phone porn services and other network operators are warming to the thought of fresh revenue from plonking porn on punters' handsets.

Police, FBI reveal child porn crackdown

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03:48 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 28, 2004

By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA-TV

A huge child pornography bust nationwide resulted in 140 arrests nationwide - 56 of them from the North Texas area.

Dallas Police and FBI agents collected more than 23,000 names over the last two years as part of "Operation Site-Key." Police said the suspects were allegedly logging onto the Internet, and then using their credit cards to view illegal Web sites.

For years, Dallas detectives tediously tracked down people who accessed sites that contained child pornography.

"These file cabinets are loaded with some of these cases," said Dallas Police Lt. Bill Walsh. "Just on and on and on."

Calif. Urged to Investigate Porn HIV

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Tue Apr 20, 8:36 PM ET

By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES - Health officials asked the state Tuesday to investigate two cases of HIV infection in the pornographic film industry and to consider applying workplace safety laws to adult movie sets.

The discovery last week that two performers, one male and one female, are HIV-positive also could prompt the industry or government to consider mandating the use of condoms during filming, said Peter Kerndt, director of the sexually transmitted disease program for the Los Angeles County health department.

That would be an overreaction, said Kat Sunlove, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry.

Killed Porn Star Linked to 'Snuff' Film

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WHITEMARSH, Pa. - A Canadian porn actress found stabbed to death last month may have been killed while shooting a film that was to have simulated the murder of a woman during sex, prosecutors said.

Sex Roulette and Its Consequences

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Posted by Matt Grills
Friday, April 23, 2004

So an AIDS scare has temporarily crippled the porn industry.

Only a cruel person wouldn’t feel for stars Darren James and Lara Roxx, who have tested positive for HIV. OK, maybe ''feel'' isn’t the right word. Let’s try ''sympathize.'' It’s tragic that they must now deal with a life-threatening virus. But could the media act more like a ditzy blonde about this whole thing?

When your day job has you getting naked and nasty with hundreds of different people, it’s quite likely you’ll end up infected with something. Let’s face it: monogamy will always be the healthiest choice.

I know the world wants it to be different. Wouldn’t it be so great if we all could have sex with anyone we want, however we want, as often as we want, without any consequences? Well, for whatever reason, nature doesn’t look kindly on that. A few promiscuous people might slip through the net once in a while. On the whole, however, it seems your best bet is to enjoy the pleasures of sex with just one person, as in ''marriage.'' And when you and your spouse are one another’s first and last sexual partner, you’re virtually immune from raging cases of herpes and the like.

Truth In Labeling

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By Paul M. Weyrich
CNSNews.com Commentary
April 23, 2004

The recent decision by the porn industry to shut down production for sixty days because several of its stars tested positive for HIV could not have come at a more appropriate time. After all, April is National STD Awareness Month, but do not count on the porn industry to get straightened out by this scare.

After all, this is the third time in the last six years such a scare has run through the so-called industry. In this case, the veteran actor had performed in Brazil and not used a condom.

Even if he had, the fact is that condoms themselves are ineffective at preventing STDs, particularly the human papillomavirus, commonly called HPV, a virus that can cause cervical cancer.

There is a burst of sun shining through all this gloom that reflects the low state of our culture.

Some Gay-Porn Producers Have Required Condom Use

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As health officials struggle to get producers of pornographic movies to require their actors to use condoms, AIDS activists and some producers of films aimed at gay men say the rest of the industry could learn from their experience.

Two more Quebec porn actresses involved in HIV scare

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Wed Apr 21, 6:41 PM ET

BRIAN DALY

MONTREAL (CP) - The HIV (news - web sites) porn scare involving a Montreal actress continued to spread as two more performers from the city returned home to await test results after being linked to an HIV-positive actor in Los Angeles.

Patricia Petite and Judy Starr (both pseudonyms) returned to Montreal amid a crisis that has paralysed the porn industry on both sides of the border, Frederic Laverge, a Montreal porn producer, said Wednesday.

Laverge of Productions PSA said he doesn't know the results of Petite and Starr's tests.

"They're awaiting their results," said Laverge, who produces a sex-reality show called Pornstar Academie.

Overseas Movies Risk Porn Stars' Health

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Wed Apr 21, 6:54 PM ET

By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer

LOS ANGELES - For the past few years, the adult film industry has operated on a closed set of sorts, with many actors preferring to work within a few San Fernando Valley communities using a testing system that made them feel relatively safe from AIDS.

The recent news that actor Darren James contracted HIV while filming in Brazil and infected at least one other person upon his return has uncovered an open secret no one has wanted to confront: Adult film companies often shoot movies in foreign locales like Brazil, Budapest and Prague, in part to save money on less expensive local talent, in part to find new faces to fill the voracious demand for adult films.

AIDS Scare Sparks Call for Calif. Porn Film Probe

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Tue Apr 20, 7:24 PM ET

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - HIV infections of two porn stars has prompted local health authorities to seek unprecedented inspections of California's multibillion-dollar adult film industry and press for mandatory condom use during sex scenes, officials said on Tuesday.

Industry representatives, however, say such a crackdown will not lead to safer sex but could drive away many of the adult film production houses that flourish in Southern California and employ some 6,000 people, including about 1,200 performers.

Industry advocates also argue that much of the area's adult film business would be driven underground, likely thwarting a voluntary HIV testing program that has worked well to stem the spread of the virus that causes AIDS.

FTC to Require Label on Porn 'Spam'

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April 16, 2004

By Stuart Shepard, correspondent

A new rule could give you some relief from those offensive pornographic e-mails that fill up your online inbox.

Starting next month, the federal government will require sexually explicit commercial e-mail to carry a very specific warning in the subject line. It may offer an easy way for families to delete unwanted junk, and also may help in enforcement efforts.

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule requires pornographic "spam" (unwanted e-mail) to carry the words "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line. It also requires sexually explicit e-mail to include a valid physical postal address for the sender, as well as a clear method of opting out of future e-mails. Internet experts generally discourage you from ever clicking on a link to opt out.

Porn Actors Seek Work Despite HIV Scare

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Sat Apr 17, 5:09 AM ET
By ROBERT JABLON, Associate Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Adult movie actors said they would keep working in the multibillion-dollar industry despite an HIV (news - web sites) scare, as more producers joined a voluntary moratorium that has shut down many sets.

About a dozen porn production companies halted shooting until at least June 8 after two performers tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites). Hustler Video and VCA Pictures said Friday they were halting work indefinitely.

"The main concern of both companies right now is for the health and well-being of the talent they work with," VCA publicist Mischa Allen said in a statement. A day earlier, Vivid Entertainment Group, the industry's largest studio, reversed a previous decision to continue shooting.

HIV Infection Scare Hits Los Angeles Porn Actors

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Fri Apr 16, 6:37 PM ET !

By Howard Breuer

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Worried adult film actors crowded into the industry's health clinic in Los Angeles for HIV testing on Friday as word spread that two performers tested positive this week.

Despite the outbreak and pleas by advocates for a 60-day moratorium while testing continues on 47 quarantined actors, it appeared that about half of the city's pornographic film production houses will ignore the warnings.

"This business doesn't shut down on Christmas. Why is it going to shut down for two isolated HIV infections?" asked Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) Foundation in Los Angeles.

Morality in Media President Comments on Porn Performer with AIDS Story

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Fri Apr 16, 3:25 PM ET

NEW YORK, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, made the following comments in response to an AP story today reporting that a male performer in the Los Angeles-based porn industry tested positive for the AIDS virus and that one of about a dozen women he had sex with also tested positive. The story indicated that the last industry HIV scare was in 1999, when a male performer tested positive for the disease. Before that, a male performer infected five women in 1998.

"First, it would help to put this story in context.

"In an article, 'Ron Jeremy to Direct HIV-Positive Performers in Video' Sharon Mitchell, director of the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, said:

'Everyone who watches porn learns something from it, right? It could be a new technique...even a new kind of fantasy. Right? So let's just call this an instructional tape for safety awareness and for the HIV-positive to realize there's ways to have sex safely.'

Porn Actors Willing to Work Despite HIV Scare

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LOS ANGELES — Adult movie actors said they would keep working in the multibillion-dollar industry despite an HIV scare, as more producers joined a voluntary moratorium that has shut down many sets.

2 HIV Cases Put a Scare Into Porn

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Several major adult movie companies — including the industry's largest, Vivid — announced Thursday they would stop filming for 60 days after two stars tested positive for HIV.

Local Christians turn back pornography tide

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April 7, 2004

Pornographic video and magazine "superstores" are popping up along rural areas of interstates around the country, often because there are no county ordinances about such businesses opening in rustic locations. Meanwhile, more and more strip clubs are opening in America's cities.

Can committed Christians do anything but shrug their shoulders? Yes, according to Rick Schatz, president of the Cincinnati-based National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families (). Prayer is a vital first step, he says.

"This is a spiritual war, and [Christians] need to realize this is a spiritual battle," Schatz says. Beyond prayer, Christians can work with community or county governments and sometimes even push state legislation to control zoning and regulation of sexually oriented businesses. This includes hours of operation, distance between dancers and patrons, and billboard advertising along highways.

"If citizens will get involved, they can make a difference in the operation of these businesses and where they can be located," Schatz says.

U.S. declares war on porn

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By Laura Sullivan
Sun National Staff
April 5, 2004, 10:46 PM EDT

Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country.

WASHINGTON -- Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn.
In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in rooms of major hotel chains.
Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.

AARP Mag: A Little Porn's a Good Thing

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Also, Michigan Family Group Targets Hotels' Pay-Per-View Porn
By Jason Collum and Rusty Pugh
April 5, 2004

(AgapePress) - An American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) magazine reader seeking advice on whether she should be concerned that her husband is viewing pornography online was told she should not be concerned.

Columnist Hugh O'Neill told writer S.S. that, "level-headed adults can enjoy erotic pictures in private without undermining their relationships, their immortal souls, or the republic." O'Neill went on to suggest that the woman, in a nonjudgmental manner, approach her husband about his web-surfing habits and "reassure him that you don't think he's doing a bad thing, or that you're living with the devil." He suggested S.S. and her husband could use the pornography to improve their sex life.

Child Porn Epidemic Should Not Surprise Feds, Expert Says

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Rusty Pugh & Jenni Parker
Agape Press

March 31, 2004

Federal authorities claim the Internet child porn problem is much worse than they had imagined. However, one pro-family activist says the government officials have had numerous warnings and simply failed to take aggressive action to tackle the problem.

ABC News reports that federal agents have discovered what they called "a vast underground market" of customers for child pornography on the Internet. Federal authorities claim they did not previously realize the extent of the problem that their investigations have revealed.

'Sex Week' and Porn Thesis Get Top 'Politically Correct' Award

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What college takes the top award for the most shocking example of political correctness in higher education? According to the Collegiate Network's 7th annual Campus Outrage Awards, also known as the "Polly Awards," two schools are tied for first place.

Background: Child Porn Bust

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Federal agents launching the largest investigation ever into Internet child pornography have discovered a vast underground market involving thousands of customers. But equally alarming is that many of those charged have direct access to children.

Massive Child Porn Problem Should Not Surprise Feds, Expert Says

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Federal authorities claim the Internet child porn problem is much worse