PORN IS EVIL, IT'S JUST COMMON SENSE


Roslyn Phillips writes to the Australian:

EROS Foundation’s Fiona Patten is a passionate advocate for pornography, but fails to recognise its harmful effects ("Porn faces stricter control’’, 29/6).

It is not only indigenous communities who have noticed that porn viewers, including children, copy the acts they have seen on X-rated DVDs. Research has found that frequent viewers of non-violent pornography are more ready to accept the myth that women secretly want to be raped, and are more likely to report that they would force unwanted sexual activity on their partners.

As the research officer for Festival of Light Australia (a Christian ministry), Phillips should know her stuff, right? Well, maybe not: in a presentation to the national conference of the Australian Family Association she cites "common sense" as evidence of the evil influence of pornography

Now I'm not saying Phillips is wrong but she really should come up with better evidence than that. She is, by the way, married to Dr David Phillips, National President of Festival of Light Australia.

Update: Those wanting to get lucky should try their local church:

When I was 14, I was on the receiving end of a blow-job, obviously out of wedlock. In a rural Baptist Church.

Indeed, I faked being Christian (to the guys and the grown-ups) just to hang around the girls (most of whom had no such illusions about my religion or lack thereof).

Now there's something to brag about, but I suppose if you're wanting to brag about sex and that was your most recent sexual encounter...