Observer on Internet Porn

[Brian Cady <brianinatlanta2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Observer has a gigantic article on Internet porn
and possible addiction issues. Guess who figures in
paragraph one? Here's the pertinent section to the
article which can be found in its entirety at:
http://observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,925264,00.html

When Pete Townshend outed himself as the rock star
under investigation for downloading child pornography,
he immediately said he was not a paedophile. He
despised child pornography. But then he added: 'I've
always been into porn. I've used it all my life.' This
was a surprising disclosure for such a moment, you
might think. Townshend volunteered it without
embarrassment though - not as a confession but a claim
to normality, presuming public opinion to be that an
appetite for Razzle is evidence of a healthy mind.

A decade ago that might have been a risky calculation.
But in the current atmosphere of alarm about
paedophilia, it was probably shrewd. Fears over online
child pornography have grown so great they have had an
unexpected moral side effect, downgrading the adult
variety to the humdrum. Even hardcore, illegal porn
attracts little attention. The police are no longer
interested, nor is the Government, and not one person
has been sent to prison in Britain for adult cyberporn
offences. Paedophilia has done for the top shelf what
crack cocaine did for cannabis, re-branding what was
once considered vice into an innocuous popular
pastime.


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