{"id":144,"date":"2001-08-15T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2001-08-15T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfamedia.org\/1234567890\/picasite\/\/?p=144"},"modified":"2001-08-15T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2001-08-15T02:02:48","slug":"who-is-afraid-of-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/2001\/08\/15\/who-is-afraid-of-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Afraid of Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt makes no sense that good people condemn Ted Bundy and indifferently walk past those magazines stands overflowing with pornographic magazines which create the Ted Bundy’s of this world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Pleasantly handsome, piercingly intelligent, master manipulator, silver-tongued-charmer,” thus did Time Magazine describe Ted Bundy, America’s most prolific serial killer in the 70’s. He was accused of having killed more than 100 women and children after having raped and mutilated them. In 1987, a federal judge called him: \u201cthe most competent serial killer in the country, a diabolical genius.\u201d<\/strong> On January 24, 1989, he was executed in the electric chair.
\nThe day before his execution, interviewed by James Dobson a psychologist and radio evangelist, Ted Bundy blamed pornographic media and alcohol as the principal causes of his uncontrollable frenzy to rape and to kill. He said: \u201cWhen I was 12 years old, together with my friends, I discovered hard core pornography. I want to emphasize that this is the most dangerous kind of pornography. I say this from a terrible personal experience. The most harmful pornography is that which shows sexual violence. Violence and sex: put these two together and they provoke terrible desires.\u201d
\nDobson clarified: \u201cYou are saying that your fantasy stimulated by pornography has acquired such force to make you feel an irresistible urge to act it out?\u201d
\nBundy answered: \u201cExactly, it happens gradually, little by little. At each time, you seek from pornography more powerful more powerful emotions. It is like drugs that you cannot do without. It brings about a crescendo of destructive energy I was also drinking much alcohol. Alcohol and pornography made me lose all my inhibitions.\u201d
\nTed Bundy was not a problem child. His mother, and teachers had no complaint about him. He looked so angelic, in fact, he was regarded as a model American boy. He was loved at home. But hard core pornography and alcohol awakened and released the demoniacal in him. He was shocked after his first murder, \u201cIt was like being possessed by something so awful, so alien, but then the impulse to do it again would come back even stronger.\u201d Ted Bundy was clearly a victim of pornography, immoral, filthy, gross and other forms of communication intended to arouse greedy or lustful feelings.
\nPornography separates sexuality from its beautiful and noble end, which is to transmit human life in the context of love and marriage.<\/p>\n

What is hard core pornography?<\/h3>\n

Hard core pornography depicts sex acts between persons of any age including bondage, fetishes, sex with animals, etc. These includes jokes, illustrated stories and photographs dealing with bondage, incest, homosexuality and other perversions.
\n\u201cTo enter the world of pornography even in a peripheral way, is to enter the world of violence, insanity, powerful and all-directional lust and utter lack of control. To remain in that world for very long is to become a helpless slave to it\u201d (Atty. Mia Menez Zafra).
\nToday pornographic materials are available anytime. Around 200 million issues of the 800 most popular soft core and hard core magazines are sold every year. Ted Bundy adds: \u201ct makes no sense that good people condemn Ted Bundy and indifferently walk past those magazines stands overflowing with pornographic magazines which create the Ted Bundy’s of this worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are the effects of pornography?<\/h3>\n

1)\u00a0 It desensitizes viewers; this may lead to extremely violent behaviors.
\n2)\u00a0 It has serious repercussions on interpersonal relationships and personal moral development.
\n3)\u00a0 Exposure to porno increases male aggressive behavior against women.
\n4)\u00a0 It decreases both male and female sensitivity to rape and the plight of the rape victim.
\n5)\u00a0 Emotionally disturbed persons can be effectively desensitized after viewing porn\/violence for 3 hours for several weeks. E.g., two boys raped their sister after viewing for three consecutive times a violent and porno movie.
\n6)\u00a0 It is addictive for all persons, normal or imbalanced; it makes them seek more deviant materials (like drug addicts, craving for stronger and stronger drugs).
\n7)\u00a0 It degrades marriage, as users of pornography begin to expect their wives to become more adventurous or experimental and will become dissatisfied when wives do not live up their porn-induced fantasies.
\n8)\u00a0 It increases crimes. Thousands of persons have been tortured, molested, raped and murdered.
\n9)\u00a0 It weakens the moral fiber of society.<\/p>\n

PROTECTING KIDS FROM PORNO<\/h3>\n

What should parents do?<\/h3>\n

1.\u00a0 Know what your child is viewing, reading, listening to. Protect them from movies, TV, radio and print media, which are saturated with sex and violent messages. Do not allow pornographic materials to enter your home.
\n2.\u00a0 Know that SEX is a gift from God; and so it is beautiful, clean, and to be respected. Our human body is the home of God and therefore has dignity; we have the right to privacy of the human body and it should not be misused to gratify lustful desires.
\n3.\u00a0 You have the power to fight porno. Consider joining anti-porno groups or signing up for literature updates. Protest against pornographic and violent ads and programs.
\n4.\u00a0 Take effective personal and community action against porno.
\n5.\u00a0 Provide wholesome entertainment for your children, within the family ans with friends. Organize outings, cultural trips, children and young people’s party.
\n6.\u00a0 Encourage your children to join sports which enhance intellectual and physical well-being.
\n7.\u00a0 Educate your children to the love of beauty; encourage them to read the Bible, the Gospel, the lives of saints
\n8.\u00a0 Pray that your children may be spared from this evil
\nJesus warn us from scandalizing little one: “… it would be better for anyone who leads astray one of this little ones who believe in me, to be drowned by a millstone around his neck…<\/em>” (Mt. 18:6). He also stressed the importance of beholding good and beautiful things: \u201cThe eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyesight is sound, you whole body is lighted up, but when your eyesight is bad, your body is darkness\u201d<\/em> (Lk. 11:34).
\nBy: Federica Dalaguit, fsp and Evangelina Canag, fsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt makes no sense that good people condemn Ted Bundy and indifferently walk past those magazines stands overflowing with pornographic magazines which create the Ted Bundy’s of this world.” “Pleasantly handsome, piercingly intelligent, master manipulator, silver-tongued-charmer,” thus did Time Magazine describe Ted Bundy, America’s most prolific serial killer in the 70’s. He was accused of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[28,47,48,61,62,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulines.ph\/picafsp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}