The War Against Pornography
The War Against Pornography Part 1
From Sts. Cryil and Methodius Catholic Church Bulletin
Volume 2 Issue 2 January 2007
What is the great plague of the 21st century? Bird flu? Terrorism?
Global warming? No, none of these. The pandemic of our century is
pornography. This scourge was already severe in the twentieth century
with the development of color photography, moving pictures, and cable
television. But with the advent of the Internet age, pornography is
freely and effortlessly available in nearly every home.
Fighting to Keep it Out
In the previous generation, kids and even adults
generally had to expend considerable time, effort, expense and
subterfuge to find pornography and smuggle it into the home. Now,
computers attached to the Internet take care of that automatically. In
any given household, concerned individuals have a major battle on their
hands just to keep pornography out. All of that time, effort, expense
and subterfuge must now be employed on the side of purity. Even last
year's advice for controlling computer access is now outdated and
ineffective. Today, all you need is a personal digital assistant (PDA)
or a cell phone to connect to a network where the number one commodity
is porn. Wireless access is rapidly growing universal and devices that
can be used to access pornography are now so much a part of both our
domestic and our commercial lives that they are difficult to do
without.
Moreover, our concentration on the Internet's
hard-core pornography should not blind us to the general lowering of
the bar. Mainstream entertainment venues routinely incorporate soft
porn without so much as a wink of the eye. Even the fashions of dress
among everyday people continue to degenerate in this universal trend.
Something as simple as walking through a shopping mall is impossible
without being exposed in one way or another to the problem of porn.
It is no wonder that increasing numbers of marriages
are being destroyed by pornography and increasing numbers of young
people, mostly boys, are developing true pornography addictions,
addictions which require not only personal commitment but professional
therapy to overcome. Parents, if they are willing to make significant
sacrifices, can still do much to protect their children, but our
culture has reached the point where anything approaching complete
shielding from pornography is now impossible.
A New Strategy
Let me repeat that last statement: Anything
approaching complete shielding from pornography is now impossible. I do
not mean to imply that we should give up the effort to protect
our children, our spouses and our friends. Now should we abandon
political, social and legal efforts to control pornography. But these
efforts are complicated enormously by the internationalism of the
Internet. Even if a community could be found that shares such values,
effective protection is likely to be impossible for a long time to
come.
to be continued . . .
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