Technology has enabled the proliferation of pornography, making it so pervasive that it has become the main sex educator for many young people. This is a profound problem because it gives a distorted view of sexuality and human relations, predominantly involves violence against women and encourages hazardous practices. It is causing young people confusion and Read more
The Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz, in her study of sexual exploitation by urban gangs found that the “use and impact” of pornography was a major factor in 48 percent of interviews with abuse victims and perpetrators. The highly easy access of porn online skewed young people’s views about what is “acceptable, required or expected” Read more
A Catholic priest from Co Tyrone who “inadvertently” displayed gay pornographic images to a group of parents and a child has issued an unreserved apology. The images were shown on a screen by Fr Martin McVeigh, the parish priest of Pomeroy, during a PowerPoint presentation at St Mary’s Primary School about children’s first Confession on Read more
Many British children are “easily accessing online pornography” and are suffering as a result, a cross-party parliamentary inquiry has found. According to the inquiry, children’s attitudes to sex, relationships and body image are all being negatively affected by seeing internet pornography. Studies noted in the inquiry’s report suggested four out of five children aged 14-16 Read more
Amid outrage that the German Catholic church’s publishing business, Weltbild, was distributing risqué titles, the Catholic bishops have agreed to sell the business “without delay.” The bishops decided on the move because Weltbild’s book range includes steamy pulp novels with titles like “Boarding School for Sluts,” “The Lawyer’s Whore,” “The new Kama Sutra” and “Tempted to Sin.” In a Read more
The German Catholic Bishops’ Conference, which represents the country’s Catholic dioceses, will cut its ties with the publisher Weltbild amid outrage that its catalogue included risque titles such as “The new Kama Sutra” and “Tempted to Sin.”
The bishops have ordered the company’s executives to find a buyer for the publisher “without any delay,” a statement said on Tuesday. It had been impossible to “adequately restrict the internet-supported dissemination and production of media that contradicted the ideals of the shareholders.”
The Church has faced a storm of criticism in recent weeks over a number of erotic and esoteric titles published by Weltbild.
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Tens of millions of Church of England dollars invested in Internet Service Providers (ISP) is under threat unless the ISP’s take action to curb internet pornography. Senior Church of England officials are conducting a wide-ranging review of the church’s holdings, and its Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) was considering new guidelines on porn, which addresses Read more
I was married for a long time to a man addicted to porn. I am now divorced. I became aware of his addiction early in our marriage. I found the ‘girlie’ magazines hidden under the bed, read, he said, for the articles. I wanted to believe him. Every time I found them, I felt nauseous, Read more
The Internet now has its own red-light district. Ironically it’s a move opposed by Church and pornography groups. On Friday, the company tasked with managing domain names, ICANN, put an end to a ten year battle and authorised the creation of the .xxx domain name suffix, a domain category which caters specifically for pornography. The Read more