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Porndemic

April 2, 2009 4:03 PM

Porndemic puts faces and personalities to the extraordinarily profitable business of pornography today.

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Someone wrote:

April 2, 2009 9:40 PM

Eye-opening, for sure.

Darryl Andre wrote:

April 2, 2009 10:00 PM

Human beings (in their displacement at the hands of greed driven capitalist societies) have become expert at creating their own problems and then creating perpetual band aids to cover the problems up. The "therapeutic processes" created and perpetuated to heal the masses are as "epedemic" as the dysfunction they profess to heal.....

Jean-Paul Lemieux wrote:

April 2, 2009 11:07 PM

How sad. An epidemic that nobody in power wants to cure.

Without the moral compass offered by most religions, kids cannot understand why they should not fall for this fastfood that is porn.

After trying, it is so difficult to stop peeking...

And then, without God in the picture, it is almost impossible to get away.

How the beauty of human sexuality could be depraved that way is quite mind-boggling.

Suzanne Gerard wrote:

April 3, 2009 4:17 AM

The authorities are not prosecuting under the right law. "Hate Propaganda" is the section of the Criminal Code to use 281.1(# may have changed since I last researched this section) A woman with her mouth taped shut being strangled, cut up, hung up with chains and murdered on film (snuff). This is not love or respect or funny, its hate. Joseph Goebbels explains Hate Propaganda like this "The best propaganda is that which works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life, without the public having any knowledge at all of the propagandist initiative." J.A.C. Brown in his book Techniques of Persuasion lists 8 points to insure the unacceptable becomes acceptable.
Children and women sexual abuse. Taken from my article in Oct./82 Priorities Mag.
"Pornography is Winning"

Simon Joseph wrote:

April 3, 2009 6:22 AM

I watched the part about the porn addict. Did he have social skills before? Like everything in life, balance needs to be created.

Trabajo wrote:

April 6, 2009 11:26 PM

"An epidemic that nobody in power wants to cure" yea sure.

harry palms wrote:

April 7, 2009 11:11 PM

I would rather as a society we have unrestricted access to view pornography-provided you are of age, and it is not violent or snuff porn.

I prefer having a choice to watch or not,rather than the government telling us what we can and cannot watch... ie China, Afghanistan, etc.

Phil wrote:

January 8, 2010 1:53 PM

Oh no! Human sexuality is being expressed in an uncensored and unregulated way! Where is the church! Where is the government! Oh the children!!
If you want to see real pornography just tune in to the latest CSI episode. It's funny how sex is so taboo, yet graphic deptictons of violence and death permeate the most popular shows on TV.

Stephen Koroknay wrote:

January 8, 2010 11:32 PM

This was a good documentary but, it failed to ask some questions that seem obvious to me. Why do men seem to be predominantly afflicted by this "porndemic"? Is there not a much deeper problem, in our society, that pornography addiction is merely a symptom of? Could feminism have something to do with this?

notforsale wrote:

January 19, 2010 9:59 PM

the real story, not the one pimped for ratings. http://prostitutionresearch.com/

pornography is filmed prostitution.

Kristy wrote:

April 6, 2010 8:52 PM

Porn is interesting to watch. Too bad that for the balance there is a very good chance that it isn't real human sexuality but designed for film sexuality. A Ted lecture recently discussed how young men today think real sex is like the fake sex on porn, to the decay of their abilities to actually make love in a way that involves any of their partner's preferences for at least a little while. Of course, it's fun to look at anything related to sex, but keeping in mind that it's basically a commercial product where the woman usually fakes it is essential.

Porn is dull. The violent stuff is just sickening. I think instead of letting our youth run wild with whatever online porn they can surreptitiously find, there should be a survey course on sex, erotica and porn taught in grade 8 so that they can get their bearings before they are warped for life into thinking that violent or demeaning sex is normal.

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