Wired magazine put up an article Friday called “Internet Porn: Worse than Crack?”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65772,00.html that talks about the addictiveness of pornography. Since it “…causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can’t do, in effect.”, and because unlike a drug it doesn’t go away over time (“Pornography addicts have a more difficult time recovering from their addiction than cocaine addicts, since coke users can get the drug out of their system, but pornographic images stay in the brain forever”).
The article also talks about the dangers of the newfound purvasiveness of this era of internet accessability (note that this is in no way an argument by me for less Internet…the Internet is awesome and just like I won’t stop reading “World Magazine”:http://www.worldmag.com/ because Playboy is also a magazine, I won’t stop visiting the good websites even though bad ones exist). Here’s that part of the article:
Mary Anne Layden, co-director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy, called porn the “most concerning thing to psychological health that I know of existing today.”
“The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviors,” Layden said. “To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it — it’s a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind.”
Of course they go on to quote from a morally relativistic person who complains that porn isn’t always bad, it just has bad effects sometimes. I shouldn’t really have to answer this, if you’re a Christian and you don’t know why porn is bad for the whole culture (not to mention sinful), you might want to start “researching”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=davidsworldva-20&path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F1581344589%2Fqid%3D1100916383%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dsr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14%3Fv%3Dglance%26s%3Dbooks%26n%3D507846 your “worldview”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=davidsworldva-20&path=ASIN%2F0842318089%2Fqid%3D1100919008%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_ka_b_2_1 a bit more, because arguments are rather useless if they come from a worldview other than your own.