Mona Charen writes at the Creators Syndicate:
It’s Christmastime and the Fox News Channel, the most conservative of the major media outlets, is running ads [that] feature soft porn images . . . Thus do we usher in the season supposedly devoted to the Prince of Peace . . .
. . . Last week the Witherspoon Institute (http://www.winst.org) convened a conference on pornography at Princeton University and invited scholars from a variety of fields to contribute. The statistics are mind-numbing . . . Men look at pornography online more than they look at any other subject. And 66 percent of 18-34 year old men visit a pornographic site every month.” . . .
Internet pornography truly is, as one researcher put it, “a hidden public health hazard.” . . . The Witherspoon Institute has done a valuable thing by starting a more public conversation about this cultural poison . . .
Witherspoon Institute papers: The Social Costs of Porn
Hadley Arkes:
Pornography:Settling the Question in Principle
Roger Scruton:
On the Abuse of Sex
Pamela Paul:
From Pornography to Porno to Porn
Norman Doidge, MD:
Acquiring Pornographic Tastes
Jill Manning:
The Impact of Pornography on Women
Ana Bridges:
Pornography’s Effects on Interpersonal Relationships
Kirk Doran:
The Economics of Pornography
Gerard V. Bradley:
Moral Principles Which Govern the Legal Regulation of Pornography
James Stoner:
Freedom, Virtue, and the Politics of Regulating Pornography
Hamza Yusuf:
Climbing Mt. Purgatorio: Reflections from the Seventh Cornice
