Comments on: Debate over effects of pornography gets hot and heavy http://dailytrojan.com/2009/10/08/debate-over-effects-of-pornography-gets-hot-and-heavy/ University of Southern California Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luke http://dailytrojan.com/2009/10/08/debate-over-effects-of-pornography-gets-hot-and-heavy/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Luke Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:01:49 +0000 http://dailytrojan.com/?p=3330#comment-479 <p>@Scott - I agree (unfortunately) the porn makers are tapping the evangelical market. As for sexual repression leading to sexual obsession, I agree it can happen, but it doesn't have to - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2009/09/29/alfred-kinsey-christian-culture-and-sexual-repression-reexamining-old-beliefs/</p> @Scott – I agree (unfortunately) the porn makers are tapping the evangelical market. As for sexual repression leading to sexual obsession, I agree it can happen, but it doesn’t have to – http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2009/09/29/alfred-kinsey-christian-culture-and-sexual-repression-reexamining-old-beliefs/

]]> By: Scott http://dailytrojan.com/2009/10/08/debate-over-effects-of-pornography-gets-hot-and-heavy/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Scott Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:35:41 +0000 http://dailytrojan.com/?p=3330#comment-438 <p>I am suspicious of Craig Gross and his intentions. I've looked in to his message and his software and it is my honest assessment that he is actually peddling porn in to churches. Sites like XXXChurch.com handle porn addictions the way fashion magazines handle fad diets. From what was written in the article it doesn't sound like he tried to make much of a case. The whole thing is to introduce Ron Jeremy to a "born again" clientele.</p> <p>Given the current barrage of virginity promises, purity balls, and abstinence-only sex education; evangelicals are becoming pornographers most lucrative market. And they've been dumbed-down to not be savvy to the real cause-effect syndrome of pornography; look at how much evangelical support Sarah Palin had in spite of stark family hypocrisy. Sexual repression leads to sexual obsession, and evangelical groups are pushing the repression hotter than ever while pornographers are cleaning up like never before. Preachers vs the Skin Trade is and almost always has been one of the most bizarre symbiotic relationships that has ever existed.</p> I am suspicious of Craig Gross and his intentions. I’ve looked in to his message and his software and it is my honest assessment that he is actually peddling porn in to churches. Sites like XXXChurch.com handle porn addictions the way fashion magazines handle fad diets. From what was written in the article it doesn’t sound like he tried to make much of a case. The whole thing is to introduce Ron Jeremy to a “born again” clientele.

Given the current barrage of virginity promises, purity balls, and abstinence-only sex education; evangelicals are becoming pornographers most lucrative market. And they’ve been dumbed-down to not be savvy to the real cause-effect syndrome of pornography; look at how much evangelical support Sarah Palin had in spite of stark family hypocrisy. Sexual repression leads to sexual obsession, and evangelical groups are pushing the repression hotter than ever while pornographers are cleaning up like never before. Preachers vs the Skin Trade is and almost always has been one of the most bizarre symbiotic relationships that has ever existed.

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