The Light at the End of the Tunnel : " Freedom of Expression "

Hey everyone! So I’ve got a couple of blog posts in the makings but I’ve been really busy this last week with work and school. I am currently gathering information on pornography and how it creates addictions. I read today in a hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space about this issue. It was entitled: Hearing on the Brain Science Behind Pornography and Addiction and the Effects of Addiction on Families and Communities. 

Here are some excerpts from Jeffery Satinover, M.S., M.D.’s report; I found them particularly interesting and wanted to share them with you:

“…Like cigarettes, that particular form of expression we call pornography, unlike all other forms of expression, is a delivery system that has a distinct and powerful effect upon the human brain and nervous system.” Think about that. Pornographers claim the right to produce their explicit materials under the idea of “freedom of expression”. Yet, as stated here, no other forms of expression arouse such a strong physical response in the brain chemically as pornography does. Food for thought: is pornography truly an expression?

“[M]odern science allows us to understand that the underlying nature of an addiction to pornography is chemically nearly identical to a heroin addiction: only the delivery system is different, and the sequence of steps. That is why heroin addicts in particular give us sex and routinely compare their ‘rushes’ to ‘orgasms’.”  Once again, is pornography an expression of thought or a stimulant that can cause huge changes in brain chemistry? If we choose to continue to define pornography as a “freedom of expression” as pornographers would have us do, we will continue to permit it to destroy families and individuals.

“Upon achieving climax, the brain releases opioids—chemicals that are the naturally occurring analogs to synthetic opiates such as morphine or heroin.”

“It is as though we have devised a form of heroin [pornography] 100 times more powerful than before, usable in the privacy of one’s own home and injected directly to the brain through the eyes.”

My purpose is to reveal the truth about pornography: it is not just a social freedom of expression. It is a harmful thing which causes damage to the user, the makers, and bystanders.

This month the Utah coalition against pornography has a regional conference this month in Salt Lake City.

Here is the info:

"The Utah Coalition against Pornography would like to make you aware of its regional conference  to be held on Saturday, March 22, 2014, from 8:00 am to 2:15 pm at the Little America Hotel, 500 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

https://www.facebook.com/utahcoalition?directed_target_id=0

The purpose of the conference is to provide those attending with information and resources to help safeguard children and families from the serious challenges of pornography."

I am going to attend. If you are interested attending as well, let me know and we can work something out.

Love,

Will Glade

The one walking beside you.