During a football game the other day I was stunned when I saw one of the commercials. An attractive female officer pulled over an attractive woman driving a red convertible. The officer identified the driver as a “GoDaddy Girl.” (GoDaddy is a website hosting service). She told her she wanted to be a GoDaddy Girl too, and began stripping for her in what was quickly becoming a lesbian encounter. At this point a banner came across the screen which said “for the unrated version go to the website.” The website (again, keep in mind this is a worldwide provider of website services) shows the officer hop up on the hood of the car, strip down to a leather thong and proceed to grind her crotch toward the drivers face. At this point, men, you are supposed to grab your own crotch and play along.
The day before that football game I saw an advertisement, again on network television, for a new upcoming “family show.” The scene had a young boy entering a kitchen reading a book. The boy looked up at his mom and said, “Mommy, what part of my body is my throbbing manhood?” A laugh track started.
This evening I went to a Wiki Answers website which talked about the expiration dates for various diary products. A graphic slid down the left side of the screen showing a movie clip of a woman nearly completely naked, her hand drifting down her stomach toward her groin in an approaching act of masturbation. A button below the image beckons the viewer to play along:
I didn’t click the image but I investigated elsewhere what Evony is. It is an online computer game. This is one of the screenshots for the game:
I went to a Border’s bookstore in Raleigh recently. There were two entire rows of books in the “Erotica” section. On the bottom shelf of one row was a large hardback coffee table book of pornography. On the cover was a nude man with his face buried in the crotch of a nude woman. There was a young boy in the aisle, eagerly taking in all the sights. How did he find his way there? In the middle of the aisle was a table with Disney books and toys on it.
And so we go. The depth of our depravity can only worsen because, among other reasons, the men in our society who would lead us out of this swamp are either too apathetic to care or are themselves addicted to pornography. As a society we welcome it, consume it, beg for more and spread it to our children. Even if you have no system of morality which includes basics such as self-respect, respect for the personhood of others, the dignity of the body and the sanctity of the marital union, you should still be intensely interested in the rapidly degrading state of things. Historians of civilizations tell us that the final death throes of any culture is the gleeful abandonment of any kind of sexual ethic and a mindless sprint toward an all-out personal and communal sexual deviancy. This deviancy is characterized by a profound objectivization of others for self-gratification.
It just doesn’t work, on either a personal level or a societal level. The human person’s brain atrophies the more self-absorbed it becomes, and there is no quicker path to self-absorption than pornography.
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Our Pornographic Society
During a football game the other day I was stunned when I saw one of the commercials. An attractive female officer pulled over an attractive woman driving a red convertible. The officer identified the driver as a “GoDaddy Girl.” (GoDaddy is a website hosting service). She told her she wanted to be a GoDaddy Girl too, and began stripping for her in what was quickly becoming a lesbian encounter. At this point a banner came across the screen which said “for the unrated version go to the website.” The website (again, keep in mind this is a worldwide provider of website services) shows the officer hop up on the hood of the car, strip down to a leather thong and proceed to grind her crotch toward the drivers face. At this point, men, you are supposed to grab your own crotch and play along.
The day before that football game I saw an advertisement, again on network television, for a new upcoming “family show.” The scene had a young boy entering a kitchen reading a book. The boy looked up at his mom and said, “Mommy, what part of my body is my throbbing manhood?” A laugh track started.
This evening I went to a Wiki Answers website which talked about the expiration dates for various diary products. A graphic slid down the left side of the screen showing a movie clip of a woman nearly completely naked, her hand drifting down her stomach toward her groin in an approaching act of masturbation. A button below the image beckons the viewer to play along:
I didn’t click the image but I investigated elsewhere what Evony is. It is an online computer game. This is one of the screenshots for the game:
I went to a Border’s bookstore in Raleigh recently. There were two entire rows of books in the “Erotica” section. On the bottom shelf of one row was a large hardback coffee table book of pornography. On the cover was a nude man with his face buried in the crotch of a nude woman. There was a young boy in the aisle, eagerly taking in all the sights. How did he find his way there? In the middle of the aisle was a table with Disney books and toys on it.
And so we go. The depth of our depravity can only worsen because, among other reasons, the men in our society who would lead us out of this swamp are either too apathetic to care or are themselves addicted to pornography. As a society we welcome it, consume it, beg for more and spread it to our children. Even if you have no system of morality which includes basics such as self-respect, respect for the personhood of others, the dignity of the body and the sanctity of the marital union, you should still be intensely interested in the rapidly degrading state of things. Historians of civilizations tell us that the final death throes of any culture is the gleeful abandonment of any kind of sexual ethic and a mindless sprint toward an all-out personal and communal sexual deviancy. This deviancy is characterized by a profound objectivization of others for self-gratification.
It just doesn’t work, on either a personal level or a societal level. The human person’s brain atrophies the more self-absorbed it becomes, and there is no quicker path to self-absorption than pornography.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 8:31 pm and is filed under Social Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.