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Unserious

Posted on August 6, 2024 by David E Smith

The SHIELD Act (S.412) passed in the U.S. Senate in July. This bill would address image-based sexual abuse by establishing new laws to knowingly distribute sexually explicit content of an individual without their consent. It will also outlaw the distribution of pornographic images of minors that are intended to humiliate, harass, or degrade the minor. But, if S.412 passes the U.S. House and is signed into law, will it be enforced?

Posted in Federal, Pornography | Tagged Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, child porn, Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, Clinton Administration, Commission on Pornography, Cuties, Dr. Judith Reisman, Edwin Meese, George W. Bush Administration, H. Robert Showers, Meese Commission, Netflix, Obama Administration, obscenity, Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, Playboy, pornography, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, Regan Administration, RICO, SHIELD Act of 2023, Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act, Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

America is in Moral Freefall

Posted on April 3, 2024 by David E Smith

For many years now, it has been clear that America has been in a steep moral and spiritual decline, despite some genuine revival movements along with some holy pushback against the growing cultural insanity. But two recent examples confirm that we are now in moral freefall.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged David Limbaugh, Elliot Clark, Francis Schaeffer, Good Friday, Joe Biden, Peter Marshall, Playboy, Robert Coleman, Transgender Day of Visibility, William Wolfe | Comments Off

Have We Arrived at Gomorrah?

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

In his book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, Robert Bork warned that the left’s efforts to create a radical vision of egalitarianism are eroding our traditional values, values that are required to sustain our Republic. The book was written more than 25 years ago, before any Christian denomination would recognize so-called "gay" marriages.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality | Tagged AASECT, Council on Religion and the Homosexual, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, ELCA, George Leonard, Glide Foundation, Have We Arrived at Gomorrah?, Hugh Hefner, Laird Sutton, LGBT, Marriage, MCC, Methodist Church, National Sex Forum, Playboy, Playboy Foundation, Pope, Robert Bork, Roman Catholic Church, Same-sex marriage, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah, Ted McIlvenna, The End of Sex, Troy Perry, United Church of Christ, Vatican | Comments Off

When Kids Are Home From School, Pornography Searches Increase 4700%

Posted on July 23, 2019 by David E Smith

Like it or not, teens are using their devices to access pornography on a regular basis in today's technology driven society. Where previous generations were cautious of a stolen Playboy magazine, current parents are looking for guidance on how to shield their teens from the ever available, internet pornography.

Posted in Pornography | Tagged Common Sense Media, Google Analytics, JAMA Psychiatry, Playboy | Comments Off

The Sensation Nation

Posted on November 26, 2018 by David E Smith

A common refrain when people lament violence, sex and f-bombs in movies, goes: “How did we get from the golden days of Hollywood to this?” Actually, Hollywood, with many notable exceptions, has been at war with decency and American values since its inception. It just wasn’t as starkly apparent.

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alfred Kinsey, Brave New World, Hollywood, Hugh Hefner, Irene Dunn, Judith Reisman, Kinsey, Melvyn Douglas, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, National Review, New York Times, Pitirim Sorokin, Playboy, Pleasantville, Politico.com, Roe v. Wade, Sex and Fraud, Sidney Buchman, The Crisis of Our Age, Theodora Goes Wild, Turner Classic Movies | Comments Off

Women in America: Once Protected and Honored, Now Objectified

Posted on December 18, 2017 by David E Smith

Once upon a time in America, society demanded civility and honored women and motherhood. But honor seems to have been tossed by the wayside in this modern era and exchanged for a cheap view of the female sex.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged American Birth Control League, Cosmo, Cosmopolitan, Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown, Hugh Hefner, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Playboy | Comments Off

The Law of the Harvest: America Sows Free Love and Reaps Heartbreak

Posted on November 22, 2017 by David E Smith

America was founded as a beacon of light, a refuge to those who only wanted to worship the God of the Bible as they saw fit. Our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, were infused with biblical precepts and a presumption of a Creator and His transcendent Truth.

For over 200 years this experiment in liberty flourished, lighting the world with the light of Truth and Righteousness.

At times during our nation’s history, Americans en masse veered toward the broad path to destruction. And at every departure from upright and moral living, a preacher or …

Posted in Pornography, Sexuality | Tagged Alfred Kinsey, Cosmopolitan, Harvey Weinstein, Helen Gurley Brown, Hugh Hefner, Judith Reisman, Kevin Spacey, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Playboy, Timothy Leary | Comments Off

Hugh Hefner Leaves Behind a Legacy of Sexual Exploitation

Posted on September 28, 2017 by David E Smith

Hugh Hefner helped to usher in an era of sexual deviance, porn addiction, objectification of women, and broken relationships between men and women. Hefner, the bachelor hedonist who brought us female exploitation and sex clubs, was a big part of the sexual revolution of the 50's and 60's. Hefner passed away Wednesday at the age of 91.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Derek Hawkins, Hugh Hefner, Kimberly Drake, Patrick Trueman, Playboy, The Washington Post | Comments Off

Bad News, Indeed – Playboy Opened the Floodgates and Now the Culture is Drowning

Posted on October 23, 2015 by David E Smith

A venerable parable from Confucian China told of an elderly man who had seen emperors and events come and go, and observed from his Confucian worldview that good news and bad news were often difficult to tell apart. “Good news? Bad news? Who’s to say?,” he would reply to any news from his neighbors.

I thought of that parable when I read the headlines that announced the news that Playboy would cease the publication of nude photographs of women in its magazine. From any moral perspective, that should appear as good news. The headlines might suggest that Playboy has had …

Posted in Pornography | Tagged Cathleen Falsani, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Ravi Somaiya, Scott Flanders | Comments Off

Grandmas and Ex-Porn Addicts Ban Together to Fight a Common Enemy

Posted on November 2, 2013 by David E Smith

Concerned grandmas and old-fashioned church ladies are locking arms with a growing group of young men plagued with erectile dysfunction.

Yes, you read that correctly.

This eyebrow-raising army is taking different approaches to fight a common enemy: pornography.

Gone are the days of pre-teen boys being introduced to images of naked women’s bodies via discarded Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Studies show that boys as young as 14 are addicted to pornography easily available on their iPads, laptops, and smart phones.

The problem is so widespread that in 2009 researchers realized there were not enough college-aged men who did not …

Posted in Pornography | Tagged American Library Association, Larry D. Trotter, Penthouse, Playboy, pornography, Rev. James Meeks, White Ribbon, White Ribbon Against Pornography, WRAP | Comments Off

Groupon Boycott Grows, Groupon Removes Porn Ads

Posted on May 7, 2012 by David E Smith

Morality In Media’s now three week-old boycott of Groupon, the online coupon company, is growing. Seven organizations with substantial membership have joined the boycott in the last week. More than 15,000 of Morality In Media’s own supporters have now contacted Groupon to cancel their memberships.

Groupon’s support of porn producers Kink and Playboy caused MIM to initiate the boycott. “Why Groupon would find Kink to be an attractive business associate is puzzling,” said MIM’s executive director Dawn Hawkins, “because Kink brags that its productions include, ‘Girls … pulled in and out of cages, their tongues clamped, their bodies pinned, …

Posted in Pornography | Tagged Dawn Hawkins, Groupon, Kink, Morality in Media, Playboy | Comments Off