Society's Failure in Sexual Responsibility is Destroying Children
Monday, April 7, 2008 | Labels: Culture, Pornography | |Society's handling of sexuality is failing the growing children of today. The sexualized culture has arrived and is running in full force. The internet opens the doorway to pornography on the public forum and it's lack of constraints leads it do develop strategies to entice customers of all ages. This includes using cartoon characters to draw in children to sexual content and attempting to draw kids in to becoming a part of pornography themselves. "...“Now, any kid can go online and find women and men having sex with animals, they can find torture, they can find simulated rape, they can certainly find any kind of oral, anal, vaginal sex, group sex, gay sex. … Many sites offer an alphabetical list of fetishes to click on.... "...Carleton Kendrick, a Boston-area family therapist, has counseled many males he considers addicted to porn. “‘The youngest was 10,’ he says. ‘If you’re going on these sites every day, it’s going to become part of your sexual DNA and your emotional DNA and your attitude toward women"....”[1]"...Any computer-savvy child with access to the Internet can see millions of pages of hard-core pornography. All that stands between them and depravity is a “warning” that is nothing more than an attractive nuisance...
Television pushes the boundaries and skews the lines of pornography daily. The individuals most dangerously affected are not those of sound mind who can differentiate between fantasy and reality and fight temptations, but the growing minds of our youth. As society becomes more and more complexly and completely sexualized it will inevitably result in sexual confusion of children who do not yet understand what sex is, let alone the vastly complex sex deviances that are being practiced on the internet.
...Zuccarini registered thousands of domains that were close misspellings or typos of popular sites such as Cartoon Network or even acquired domains identical to well-known brands such as Hot Wheels to deceive children and direct them to pornographic Web sites...."[1]
The "exposure point" of children is not only becoming earlier and earlier, but it is becoming more and more "hardcore". As a result, children are exposed early to sexual content of great vulgarity, resulting in complete and utter confusion. When one looks deeper into the issue, two major concerns are raised as a result:
1) Children who do not understand what sex is will be first exposed to it in it's pornographic context, resulting in these behaviors being considered what is 'normal sexuality'
2) The curious exploration of those sexual contexts without a formal knowledge of both the purposes, dangers and intelligent practices of sex.
...‘Pornography changes boys’ expectations of real girls, and that by default changes reality for the girls. What bothers me is that the girls aren’t outraged by it......Once a child enters the wanton world of online porn, innocence is lost. Kids are pre-groomed for seduction by predators that don’t have to waste time educating and desensitizing them to engage in sex with an adult or commit sex crimes on other kids....
In other words, children will be not only bombarded with what television, movies and the internet espouse as healthy sexuality, but they will be exposed at a point in which the question of sexuality is both too early for them to comprehend and too confusing for them to make sense of. This early on-set sexual confusion will inevitably affect their decisions when they reach their pre-teen to teen years of life, when these questions begin to enter their minds.
...Sex therapist Doug Weiss said he's treating more and more kids as young as nine who are addicted. 'Their total sexuality is connected to it and their need for a real person is really limited,' said Weiss...."[1]
The results will be astoundingly despairful. As we spawn a generation of sexually confused children into their teen years, it ought not be confusion when instances of mass orgies, sexual deviances such as rape, child pornography, objectification of women and pornography addiction become the norm. It has already began to come into fruition."...The forensic psychiatrist who examined the teenager said that the violent sexual images he had seen inspired him to carry out the offenses. David Steer, counsel for the boy, said: "He had been exposed to extreme and crude pornographic material at the time of these offenses....
This list goes on must longer than illustrated here. Society has a responsibility to manage the protection of it citizens, how many lives must be destroyed before people begin to realize this free-for-all everyone can be expose anything to anyone "sexual revolution" where the only people expected responsible for protecting children from pornography is the parents is doing nothing more than destroying people so individuals can turn a profit?
..."The work I have done on children who have killed, committed sexual offenses or other crimes suggests that exposure to pornography is a factor. It is certainly well-documented in the literature." ...
Details of an alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old by eight adolescent boys in Lyon, France, emerged the day after the publication of a government-sponsored survey estimating that nearly half of France’s children had seen an adults-only sex film by the time they were 11....
..."Hardcore porn has become the principal vehicle for quite young children's understanding of everything to do with love and sexuality, sometimes their only point of reference." It found that 89 percent of boys aged 16 or 17 had seen one or more porn films, for girls, the figure was 81 percent....
...Of the 101 sexually abusive children seen over the past three years at a Canberra hospital, almost all had access to the Internet, and 90 percent admitted having seen sexually explicit material online, the report said....
...Police wondered where two girls, ages 11 and 12, who had posted photos of themselves nude on the Internet, got the idea. They said they were influenced by pornography on the Internet....
...Four high school boys in Boca Raton, Florida, ages 15 to 17, are facing charges of lewd and lascivious battery and sexual performance by a child based on allegations that they videotaped themselves having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Police said the boys wrote up a contract for the girl that included plans to charge other students to view the tape on a home computer, and encouraged her to submit the tape to a porn company for a contest...."[1]
Craig Chamberlin
References: [1] Human Events - Road to Perversion Is Paved With Porn