(Internet Safety 101) — A recent New York Times article by David Segal “Does Porn Hurt Children” concludes that the jury is still out with respect to the “hazardous mix of teenagers and pornography”.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Abe Lincoln said it best, “What is morally wrong cannot be politically correct.” The home, historically considered a safe haven, is now the very place where the sex industry is grooming our youth. The invasion of graphic, hard-core online pornography has been called the “largest unregulated social experiment in human history” and one of the “greatest current threats to children, families and nations”; no one is immune.
To make matters worse, extreme Internet pornography has become mainstream. The explosion of users and pornography sites has challenged the profit-making model of mainstream pornographers, and as author Gail Dines explains in her most recent book “Pornland”, “to differentiate their products in a glutted market, producers have created niche products-like teen sex, torture porn and gonzo-in order to entice a generation of desensitized users… images today have become so extreme that what used to be considered hard-core is now mainstream pornography and acts that are now commonplace in much of online pornography were almost nonexistent a decade ago.” To illustrate this point I recently did a simple Google search on the word “bestiality” which generated 3.4 million returns!
