Author: Eugene Woodbury Date: To: 'AML Discussion List' Subject: RE: [AML] Curing pornography (was Do Violent Movies Increase Crime?)
Notice also that the more and more we fret and worry about obesity, the
fatter and fatter we get. Back when I was growing up, saturated fat (the
current pornography of the American diet) was pretty much part of the "food
pyramid." And apparently we were all a lot thinner then. Maybe the
Victorians were right after all. Call it constructive hypocrisy: ignore it
and pretend it isn't there (even when it obviously is) and maybe people will
stop blaming all their problems on it. Sort of like the malevolent creature
on Star Trek that started fights and then fed off people's anger. Captain
Kirk's solution was to laugh at it. Sage advice. (Movie suggestion to tie it
all together: Tampopo. Much food, much sex, much funny.)
Eugene Woodbury
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Subject: [AML] Curing pornography (was Do Violent Movies Increase Crime?)
Since people are (inevitably) throwing pornography into the discussion
on violent films, there's something I've observed and wondered about.
We know that a problem with pornography is on a rise within the church.
We know that because it's become a regular staple in General Conference
topics every half a year, as well as local sermons. It's a veritable
D-Day-sized attack on pornography. And this has been going on for some
time now.
So are we fixing the problem?
I don't see it. The sermons get more and more ubiquitious and vehement
as time goes on. I don't get the sense that we're fixing it at all--on
the contrary, I get the sense that it's only getting worse.
So why do we keep trying the same strategy more and more that already
isn't working?
And if what we're doing isn't working, what is the cure for pornography
