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What we do know is children and teens can and do develop compulsive behaviour. (Ryan & Lane1997)
Pornography makes victims of the helpless
Police regard pornography as primary evidence of serious crime. Collections of such material are psychology important to child abusers. They rarely get rid of their stash.
(NZ Herald 8.9.97)
There are some indicators-
Pornography is hidden from society
Ted Bundy had progressed from soft porn, at the age of 13 to consuming and acting out hard core pornography. His double life wa kept so secret that not one of his friends or family suspected he was a serial killer. The young man who had grown up in an “All American” Christian home had murdered 27 girls and young women. (Dr James Dobson, Focus on the Family)
Pornography is anti-
When the Nazis took the government of Poland, they flooded the Polish bookstalls with pornography. The theory was making the individual conscious of only of the need for personal sensation would make the combination of forces very difficult.
Pornography is linked to Crime
In Oklahoma City 1984, over 150 sex orientated businesses in the city closed. The rape rate decreased 26% while the rest of the state increased by 20%.
Michigan State Police (1956-
Pornography ruins families
Dr Victor Cline of the University of Utah studied 225 individuals and discovered a common 4 factor syndrome.
1. Addiction:Like heroin, there is a strong physical/psychological addiction that
requires the user to need more and add to the experience. Single-
2. Escalation: Users need rougher, more mean, more bizzare, more deviant or even anisocial to be turned on. When wives try to placate their husbands by participating in bizarre sex fantasies they find, to their dismay, that there is no end to it.
3. Desensitization: What was at first shocking, awful, disgusting.Taboo-
4. Acting Out: Men begin to do things they have seen. An appetite has been cultivated and the conscience immobilized. It seems everyone is doing it. As a marriage and family therapist I have the unfortunate opportunity to daily and constantly see what sad often tragic outcomes follow when men get involved in porn. It is a direct attack upon the family and the marriage relationship.