I
have a strong feeling I know who sent this. If I am wrong I hope you
got a good grade, no matter how flawed
and inaccurate
your statements
are.
I
would suggest you do some deeper
research and detach your emotions
before attempting to make and evidence
based
decision.
I am
doing a report for school and this websites sounds like a website
for people or criminals who can’t have the courage to stand up and
say that what they did was wrong. Yes, that they did do a sexual
offense and yes, that they are sorry for doing it. But that is what
is wrong with sex offenders. They can never admit to what they did.
They want to do what they do and be free to do it. The only thing
they are mad about is getting caught. Their mindset might always be
the same, unless they get help.
The
stated purpose of this page is above. It is aimed at the elimination
of all of the sexual offender registration laws. That is the final
goal. Its has nothing to do former offenders admitting what they did
or that was wrong. Your statements are generalized and inaccurate.
While some offenders truly never see what they did was wrong, many
do. Actually, most offenders know in their hearts and it leads them
deeper into their cycles. Anyone who has taken a sexual offender
treatment program or deals with sexual offenders will tell you this.
Even without treatment most former sexual offenders will not
recidivate. Once caught typically the cycle is broken.
Pornography and Crime
Pornography, the carrier, is big business. It is evil. It is
contagious. It is addicting. It is estimated that in recent years
Americans alone spent 8–10 billion dollars per year on hard-core
pornography—a fortune siphoned away from noble use and diverted to
a devilish purpose!
Apathy toward pornography stems mostly from a widespread public
attitude that it is a victimless crime and that police resources are
better used in other areas. Many state and local ordinances are
ineffective, sentences are light, and the huge financial rewards far
outweigh the risks.
One study points out that pornography may have a direct
relationship to sex crimes. In the study, 87 percent of convicted
molesters of girls and 77 percent of convicted molesters of boys
admit to the use of pornography, most often in commission of their
crimes.
In another study, a significant minority of sex
offenders polled reported that pornography had something to do with
their committing the crime for which they were convicted.
I
am unsure of your point here. One study says pornography plays a
major role, the other says it does not.
Pornography is any material depicting or
describing the human body or sexual conduct in a way that arouses
sexual feelings. It is distributed through many media, including
magazines, books, television, movies, music, and the Internet. It is
as harmful to the body as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs are to the
body.
I
do not see how it harms the body, but it does have an effect on the
mind of some viewers.
Pornography is tragically
addictive. Like other addictions, it leads people to experiment and
to seek more powerful stimulations. Those who experiment with it and
allow themselves to remain caught in its trap will find that it will
destroy them, degrading their minds, hearts, and spirits.. It will
rob them of self-respect and of their sense of the beauties of life.
It will tear them down and lead them to evil thoughts and possibly
evil actions. It will cause terrible damage to their family
relationships..
I
agree with this part out side of the it will always in every case
lead to gloom and doom. Not all people are affected the same way or
as strongly. Like anything else, once it become maladaptive it is
very harmful.
Pornography is like a
raging storm, destroying individuals and families, utterly ruining
what was once wholesome and beautiful.
"Pornography
impairs one’s ability to enjoy a normal emotional, romantic, and
spiritual relationship with a person of the opposite sex. It erodes
the moral barriers that stand against inappropriate, abnormal, or
illegal behavior. As conscience is desensitized, patrons of
pornography are led to act out what they have witnessed, regardless
of its effects on their life and the lives of others."
I
agree once again. It can have this effect, but not for everyone.
Pornography
has become a $57 billion industry worldwide. Twelve billion of this
is derived in the United States by evil and “conspiring men” who
seek riches at the expense of the gullible. It is reported that it
produces more revenue in the United States than the “combined
revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball
franchises or the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC”
(“Internet Pornography Statistics: 2003,” Internet, http://www.healthymind.com/5-port-stats.html).
If
you dig deeper you will find I believe it is NBC that is controlled
by GE (General Electric). They are one of the leading producers and distributors
of pornography. Many of large media companies are involved also. Probably
most of the very companies the produce and distribute your favorite television
programs, movies, and music. One way to look at it is pornography is
an investment for these companies that generates the capital to
produce much of the entertainment your and most Americans enjoy.
“Sex is the number 1 topic searched on
the Internet” (NCPCE Online, “Current Statistics,” Internet, http://www.nationalcoalition.org/stat.html).
Suffice it to say that all who are
involved become victims. Children are exploited, and their lives are
severely damaged. The minds of youth become warped with false
concepts. Continued exposure leads to addiction that is almost
impossible to break. Men, so very many, find they cannot leave it
alone. Their energies and their interests are consumed in their
dead-end pursuit of this raw and sleazy fare.
All involved
are victims of the producers. The persons in the pornography are
typically manipulated and in the end tossed aside when the producers
are finished. The viewers can become victims either through pure
disgust or in many of the ways you describe above.
The excuse is given that it is hard to
avoid, that it is right at our fingertips and there is no escape.
Suppose a storm is raging and the winds howl
and the snow swirls about you. You find yourself unable to stop it.
But you can dress properly and seek shelter, and the storm will have
no effect upon you.
Likewise, even though the Internet is
saturated with sleazy material, you do not have to watch it
This is
a weak excuse. For the most part you have to seek out pornography
online. It can be easily avoided.
Some may ask “What is pornography?” It was United States
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who said that while he could
not exactly define pornography, “I know it when I see it,” he
said. (Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378-U.S. 184, 1964.)
Pornography is not a victimless crime. Who
are its victims? First, those who either intentionally, or sometimes
involuntarily, are exposed to it. Pornography is addictive. What may
begin as a curious exploration can become a controlling habit.
Studies show that those who allow themselves to become drawn to
pornography soon begin to crave even coarser content. Continued
exposure desensitizes the spirit and can erode the conscience of
unwary people. A victim becomes a slave to carnal thoughts and
actions. As the thought is father to the deed, exposure can lead to
acting out what is nurtured in the mind.
There is
one line in this paragraph that I find to be very true. Pornography
can desensitize the viewer to what they are viewing and make some
actions not seem as wrong. This in my opinion is the worst of pornography's
effects on viewers.
Pornography is also addictive. It impairs
decision-making capacities and it “hooks” its users, drawing
them back obsessively for more and more. A man who had been addicted
to pornography and to hard drugs wrote me this comparison: “In my
eyes cocaine doesn’t hold a candle to this. I have done both. …
Quitting even the hardest drugs was nothing compared to [trying to
quit pornography].
“Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than
filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of
unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only
make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who
feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and
literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a
brain. The brain won’t vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will
always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images
across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in
life.
Interesting
point, but you have to want to recall this images to see them. That
is my personal experience at least.
But there are other victims. Crimes of violence have increased
in the United States at up to five times the rate of population
growth. A 1983 University of New Hampshire study found that states
having the highest readership of pornographic magazines also have
the highest number of reported rapes. Pornography degrades and
exploits men, and women, and children in a most ugly and corrupt
fashion.
Why don't you include
those articles in your website about sex offenders? It seems to me
that you want people to feel sorry for the mistakes that sex
offenders make But it seems to me that it all starts with
pornography. Why should anybody feel sorry for sex offenders when
they can’t even admit what they do? They ruin their own lives and
others and can't even admit to it. They want the easy way out. But
they don't realize that they imprison themselves forever. Inside
their own addictions. Just thought I would give my opinion. You
asked for comments. There was my assignment for school. No contact
please.
