The Pornification Of A Generation

Newsweek: The Pornification Of A Generation

The idea for a book about porn culture came to Kevin Scott the day his daughter decided she absolutely had to have a Bratz-doll pony. For months, the 5-year-old had begged him for a Bratz doll—clad in spike heels, fishnets and miniskirt, enormous puppy-dog eyes protruding from her oversized head. Her sexy look seemed a little too sexy for a preschooler, so he and his wife bought her a different doll, which she was happy with. Except that a few months later, Bratz came out with Bratz Babyz. "If Bratz had looked like Barbie hookers, these looked like baby hookers," Scott says. Again, he convinced his daughter that My Little Pony was just as cool—and for a moment, the conversation ended. Until, of course, the Bratz came out with Bratz Ponyz. And then, says Scott, an English professor at a small college in Georgia, "I realized porn culture and I were in a death match for my daughter's soul."

In a market that sells high heels for babies and thongs for tweens, it doesn't take a genius to see that sex, if not porn, has invaded our lives. Whether we welcome it or not, television brings it into our living rooms and the Web brings it into our bedrooms. According to a 2007 study from the University of Alberta, as many as 90 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls aged 13 to 14 have accessed sexually explicit content at least once.

But it isn't just sex that Scott is worried about. He's more interested in how we, as a culture, often mimic the most raunchy, degrading parts of it—many of which, he says, come directly from pornography. ...

Comments

[Michael Krahn]

Your Newsweek link doesn't work:

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Extra "ht" at the beginning.

Also, tried to email this info to you and the mail got bounced.

[Michael W. Kruse]

Thanks Michael. I fixed the link. I couldn't get access to my own email earlier this morning but that appears to have been repaired.

[ZZMike]

It's part of the agenda: undermine the moral fabric and the rest is easy. I haven't connected all the dots yet, but I believe that one of the starting points is Gramsci - one of his main ideas was to undermine the idea of the family, undermine the concept of marriage, ...

Physical weapons won't defeat us, but we're ill-prepared for the psychological and spiritual assault (which has been going on for years).

[Michael W. Kruse]

I don't know how much it is part conscience agendas but it clearly the consequence of actions.