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."