Pornography Is Worse than Feminism

By Samuel D. James

I understand what Ben Domenech is trying to say in his eulogy for Hugh Hefner, but I’m afraid he has strained out the gnat and swallowed the rabbit. Domenech sees in Hefner’s legacy a nostalgia that conservatives can appreciate—a nostalgia for a time when women were women, and men loved women because they were women. Domenech is correct that the unblushing amorousness of Playboy contrasts with our contemporary “sexless,” politicized public square. But he misses the fact that pornography, which Hefner did not invent but did commodify once and for all, is an agent of our current crisis. Read more

‘Pornography addiction worry’ for tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds

A tenth of 12 to 13-year-olds fear they are „addicted” to pornography, an NSPCC ChildLine survey has concluded.

One in five of nearly 700 youngsters surveyed said they had seen pornographic images that had shocked or upset them, researchers found.

The charity also says that 12% of those surveyed said they had taken part in, or had made, a sexually explicit video. Read more