The Porn Myth

I was talking to a friend last night about how going to an all-boys school growing up caused me to not feel confident when talking to the opposite sex (at least I know where NOT to send Jayden to school). Then I 'accidentally' found a link to an article by Naomi Wolf from the New York Magazine about how the widespread use of the Internet Porn have a huge effect on how people interact.

Here's an excerpt from that article:

"... the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.”

"Here is what young women tell me on college campuses when the subject comes up: They can’t compete, and they know it. For how can a real woman—with pores and her own breasts and even sexual needs of her own ...—possibly compete with a cybervision of perfection, downloadable and extinguishable at will, who comes, so to speak, utterly submissive and tailored to the consumer’s least specification."


I have to say that I'm no saint in this area. Growing up, I too have had my exposure to the world of pornography (in my days it was mostly printed). But as the article points out, there is a huge difference between pornography then and now. "For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn."

I found a website www.cp80.org dedicated to fight pornography. As a concerned parent, what is worrying is internet pornography is so easily accessible even for a child that left unchecked, their natural curiosity can turn into a fatal addiction that can literally ruin their lives. God helps us and parents beware.