Tis the Season for Porn



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



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