Something that I posted on Ray Comfort's blog - not the entirety of my feelings on the matter, but perhaps sufficient.
Solomon posted:
Rock Sprites, you must be of singularly weak mind and constitution if you have seriously been 'hurt' by pornography.
Besides that, this sounds like a great idea to bring to universities in Melbourne - I'll start calling around today!
Porn for Bibles, what a concept! Thanks, Ray!
Rock Sprites posted:
Yes, thank you for that. I'm sorry that members of my own family would get off to it and then feel the need to molest me when I was a child. Thank you. I appreciate your sympathy.
That tends to hurt a kid, don't you think? I was very susceptible to pornography when I was a kid because of this. It's painful that people are so uneducated in this area. You cannot do whatever you want without other people being hurt. I guess this is a separate idea. I don't like to rant in comments, either. This is just a very touchy subject for me.
I don't suppose we can convince people of much over the internet, which is why I usually just refrain from commenting here altogether. I would just like to be an example, I guess. It makes me sad when people claim that pornography doesn't hurt people. There are many people who are addicted to it and need support in order to overcome it. Look it up, please, as I am not allowed to post links here.
I understand that many atrocities have been committed in the name of Chirstianity throughout the ages, and are still being committed today in the name of God. It makes me miserable to see charlatans like Benny Hinn, Todd Bently, and Paula White making millions of dollars off of the unsuspecting public.
But these people are not following the example of Christ. They are only concerned with the things of this world, with having material things and power. And it destroys people. It hurts people.
To encourage young people to trade in their Bibles for porn is so sad and shallow. I'd rather see more gentlemen in the world than have to worry about whether or not my boyfriend is going to be looking at porn when I'm not around. Men and women are not objects. If people think that the Bible is so horrible, why replace it with something like this? It makes no sense.
Solomon posted:
I understand that many atrocities are committed by people who have also viewed pornography - but these people are mentally unbalanced to begin with. Nothing innate in pornography causes you to go out and molest people.
I assumed your admission of harm was talking of your own adult experiences - I'm sorry that you suffered child abuse, but blaming pornography for the depravity of your family members is a dangerous thing - to allow people to say 'I'm not a child molester, I was under the influence of pornography' is allowing them to pass off responsibility onto something that doesn't deserve nearly as much bad press as it gets.
I looked it up as you suggested, and it comes across as something that the jury is very much out on. 'Addiction' to pornography has no chemical basis such as usually characterize an addiction, besides a potential Pavlovian conditioning to the pleasurable aspects.
The evidence for a condition of addiction to pornography has significantly less evidence backing it up than evolution. If you don't think evolution is true or that it lacks sufficient evidence, you can't possibly believe in an addiction to pornography - you might as well be saying "I don't believe that the ground is solid, but I do believe that leprechauns sprinkle magic dust in my eyes to make me sleepy, with the evidence being the gunk in your eyes when you wake up."
So again, your history of child abuse is tragic, but pornography didn't molest you, your parents did.
