Internet Porn More Addictive Than Crack, Senate Told 886
applemasker writes "Wired says that the Senate heard testimony today that internet porn is 'worse than crack.' Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) called it the most disturbing hearing he'd ever heard in the Senate, saying that porn is ubiquitous now but compared to when he was growing up and 'some guy would sneak a magazine in somewhere and show some of us, but you had to find him at the right time.' Can someone submit a FOIA request for his browser history or cache?"
porn better than crack (Score:5, Funny)
And in related news... (Score:3, Funny)
OMFG (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine how much funnier that could have been without the slashdot lameness filters.
Some things were meant to be yelled.
Phew (Score:5, Funny)
I had to make the first bad pun.... (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, I truly just couldn't resist.
Thats bull man... (Score:5, Funny)
Not True! Internet Porn isn't addictive! (Score:3, Funny)
*CLICK* *CLICK*
anytime I....
*CLICK* *CLICK*
*CLICK* *CLICK*
Ok...maybe not...
ummm yeahhh (Score:5, Funny)
People are going to make fun of this line but its a very serious problem. Have you ever seen a porn baby you insensitive clod?!
Duh! (Score:3, Funny)
Internet Porn isn't as addictive as Crack (Score:5, Funny)
Cause I've downloaded internet porn while smoking crack and so I can say from first hand experience (and later, second hand) that when my DSL went down I was pissed BUT I didn't get out of my chair until the crack ran out.
Seriously though this is just some more alarmist bullshit from those special folks out there who live in mortal terror that someone, somewhere might be getting a nut or even enjoying something a little bit. They're just busy trying to save us from ourselves again. Nothing new here.
Speaking of crack... (Score:5, Funny)
"The Select Senate Subcommittee on Slashdot Addiction calls its first witness. Ms. Portman, would you please stand and raise your right hand..."
k.
Yes? And? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yeah. Porn's ubiquitousness now is leading us into the darkness of...
of...
Politics?
I think his point is that porn led him into politics. I bet he read in some Playboy article that the Kennedies get all the hot chicks. And he got that Playboy from some guy in a dark alley. So now that he's a sentator, he's going to do his best to keep that secret, and that way *he'll* get all the hot chicks.
What a devious bastard.
No way! (Score:3, Funny)
It started as research (Score:5, Funny)
And its more addictive than cigarettes..
seee here, thats why we can't stop. Its not that we're wasting tax payers money on our newley beeded up T3 lines running into the capital.
Those RIAA/MPAA supenas to my office were obviouslly caused by our affliction.
Really...
Re:NARTH? Now I am sure they are unbiased. (Score:5, Funny)
heh, heh... Beavis, you just said "at hand"... heh, heh...
Re:hurm (Score:4, Funny)
I'd say porn is about as addictive as television.
Yes, but it burns more calories. Also, regular sex can enhance your cognitive abilities. I can't remember where I read that last link though. Clearly it's time to go top up my cognitive abilities.
Re:porn better than crack (Score:1, Funny)
WTF am I going to do NOW!?!?
forget his browser cache; check his urine (Score:5, Funny)
Aww, the poor kittens! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wonders of science... (Score:3, Funny)
Please marry me!
Re:Sex is not a drug. (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly, pornography and masturbation go hand in hand.
Re:Again? (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox Is The Pipe (Score:4, Funny)
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Get Your Porn? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:5, Funny)
Not with MY memory they don't. Maybe that's why I have to back and look again. Stupid brain.
Seriously (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, if you think porn is equivalent to something that can kill you you must be doing it wrong.
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:2, Funny)
The midgets of course. What a sick question. Go away and take your fantasies about midgets spanking a man who is covered in thousand island dressing with you. This is a family web site.
Re:porn better than crack (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:3, Funny)
Love is a beautiful thing, but it makes for some really ugly pictures.
Re:Sex is not a drug. (Score:3, Funny)
He must have better urls than I do (Score:2, Funny)
I like stuff along the lines of suicidegirls [suicidegirls.com] and lithiumpicnic [lithiumpicnic.com] but I'm too stingy/poor to pay up.
Most porn I see on the internet has tired and sad looking women in it. I don't find it very addictive because it's mostly not very good quality - not very sexy women posing in not very sexy positions, or ugly couples rutting. Certainly not my idea of addictive but perhaps my aesthethic taste in porn is a bit more discerning that Senator Brownback. He must be too easily impressed.
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:2, Funny)
The porn nowadays sure as hell ain't "natural". Do you see some of those positions? They're athletes I tell you.
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sex is not a drug. (Score:1, Funny)
it's a feature (Score:5, Funny)
That's a feature, not a bug.
-God
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Bus signs stopped me from fucking children" (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, incredible. Imagine a bus going by with a big sign on it saying "SEX WITH CHILDREN IS NOT OK".
But really, how is this any more absurd than those urinal cakes that have "SAY NO TO DRUGS" on them?
I once heard a comedian ask if a junkie has ever been standing at a urinal, seen the "SAY NO TO DRUGS" printed on the urinal cake, and had an epiphany right there while pissing.
Maybe they could try "SEX WITH CHILDREN IS NOT OK" on the urinal cakes first, to see if it works, before ramping up to buses.
I'd like a stack of urinal cakes that say "OFFSHORING TECH JOBS IS NOT OK". I'd hit all the mens rooms in my company's corporate headquarters. Because you'll certainly never see a bus go by that says "OFFSHORING TECH JOBS IS NOT OK". You'll see "SEX WITH BUSES IS NOT OK" first.
I'm in my thirties, but there are enough moralizing idiots in the world to keep me feeling like a jaded teenager for the rest of my life.
Re:Sex ed causes brain damage (Score:5, Funny)
Attempt 1:
(Religious Right) "Sex is DIRTY! Y'all are a-goin to HELL and there ain't no blowjobs or vibrating whatchamacallits down there, nossir!"
(Everyone Else) "Shut the fuck up ya fuckin' puritans. We're getting laid over here."
(Religious Right) "Well I NEVER!"
(Everyone Else) "Yeah, we know -- probably never will, either. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
(Religious right grumbles for many years).
Attempt #2:
(Religious Right) "And, so, you can see that sex leads to all sorts of social breakdown, and pretty soon the country is goin' to HELL in a handbasket."
(Everyone Else) "Uh... Yeah, right. Whatever. Things look pretty okay to me, dude. Why doncha relax, like waaaay over there, where we can't hear you anymore."
(Religious Right) "But... But... Society... Hell... Handbasket..."
(Everyone Else) "Yeah, ok, I'm going to need you to go over there, alright? Mmm, yeah, that'd be great."
(Religious right is even more frustrated, and grumbles for years, until George Bush wins the election with their help. Now, they think, it's our chance!)
Attempt #3:
(Religious Right, in Congress surrounded by other religious wackos, whispering to each other) "Ok, gang, let's try the drug angle. Maybe they'll buy it."
(Religious Right) "And, so, sex is really a drug because you masturb... masturb... masturbate, and EROTOTOXINS are released into the brain! So, uh, porno isn't free speech, and we should lock down all this sex stuff.
(Congress, a few watts short of a bulb as usual) "OH MY GOODNESS!"
(Religious Right, delighted) "Yeah, you see? It's dangerous, it's like, um... CRACK! Yeah, crack, you touch yourself and you're HIGH! And we have to lock this down..."
(Congress talks among themselves for a minute, then returns) "Ah, if you don't mind our asking, does this mean you think, for example, sex with a pretty intern would be considered doing drugs?"
(Religious Right) "Yessiree, bob! Why, that's like shooting DOPE!"
(Congress) "I see, I think I get the picture. Well, you're right, something must be done! We're going to commission a study. Yessir, we're gonna study this thing until we get to the bottom of it, you betcha." (several congressmen giggle, one mutters "BOTTOM!" and falls off his chair).
(Religious Right) "Hang on a minute, here..."
(Congress) "Now, I know you're busy, these gentlemen will show you back to your car and we're going to get right to work studying this sex problem, we promise. In fact, I think we're going to be working overtime on it! Don't you worry your pretty little head about a thing."
(Religious Right, sputtering) "But wait! You don't understand!"
(Congress) "Good afternoon, dear. And, may I say that is a VERY flattering suit..."
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:4, Funny)
This is a very good example of why we need porn and how it protects family values (eliminates a divorace) and increases happines.
Knee-jerk reaction (Score:4, Funny)
Gee, imagine the desire to procreate being more powerful than a narcotic. I'm addicted to oxygen, too.
Re:porn better than crack (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:5, Funny)
Karma Whoring.
I still remember the rush I got the first time I was modded up. I've spent the past three years here trying to chase down that perfect high, posting more and more comments....
Slashdot is a drug, man.
Ted Bundy (Score:2, Funny)
There is a video that James Dobson (famous psychologist) did about Pornography.
He has the chance of interviewing Ted Bundy (the serial killer) a few hours before he was executed.
WATCH IT!!!
The video is called:
Pornography: addictive, progressive, and deadly
If you can't see the problem with pornography, then you are probably engulfed in it. Once you can get out, you will be able to see the damage it causes.
There are some good books also on how to do that.
Such as:
Every Man's Battle.
Every Young Man's Battle.
Free yourself!!
Re:porn better than crack (Score:1, Funny)
They sort of cancel each out though.
where's the "it's funny laugh" foot? (Score:3, Funny)
"Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance," Satinover said. "That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can't do, in effect."
Had I been at this testimony, I would have burst out laughing. Even though the fact that someone is stupid and pathetic enough to compare jerking off to shooting up heroin is no laughing matter...
Re:Knee-jerk reaction (Score:3, Funny)
Um, what people usually do while looking at porn (so I've heard) isn't procreation.
Re:And in other Congressional news... (Score:2, Funny)
Is the dressing organic?
in the name of science... (Score:5, Funny)
dare to test this hypothesis? [goat.cx]
Re:porn better than crack (Score:2, Funny)