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Stigmatizing and Prosecuting Pornography

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Unless adults are willing to make dramatic changes to their own moral and legal rules about pornography, we shall keep playing what amounts to game of Russian roulette with the formation of our children when it comes to one of the most precious parts of their lives.
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Humanly Speaking: Aristotle, the First Amendment, and the Jurisprudence of Pornography

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Far from being an exercise of self-expressive freedom, as some suggest, pornography binds internally, its addictive properties consuming its consumer under a tyranny of license both brutal and total. It denies our humanity as well as our liberty by moving us away from human speech and toward bestial voice.

Does Pornography Feed Sex Tourism?

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Prostitution and pornography both teach that sex is merely a monetary transaction, focused on body parts and facilitated by consent.
Public Discourse

Incest and Pornography: More Similar Than We Think

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Although we uphold the cultural taboo on incest, we accept something with precisely the same negative effect on integrity, marriage, and family: pornography.
Public Discourse

Internet Pornography & the First Amendment

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Current jurisprudence protecting pornography as “artistic expression” contradicts the Founders’ understanding and the underlying purposes of the First Amendment’s protection of speech, and it fails to protect Americans from the social and personal trauma caused by pornography. The second in a two-part series.
Public Discourse

Hotels and the Pornography Plague: An Example of Moral Responsibility from Scandinavia

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While many American hotel executives refuse to rid their businesses of pornography, Petter Stordalen, owner of one of Scandinavia’s largest hotel chains, is leading the way forward.
Public Discourse

Hotel Pornography and the Market of Morality

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The legal institutions of a democratic and capitalist society are designed not to give people what is good and prevent them from getting what is bad; they are designed to give people what they want and not give them what they don’t want.
Public Discourse

Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry

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A letter on pornography and business ethics written by two prominent public intellectuals—one a Christian, one a Muslim—sent to hotel industry executives last week.
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Pornography, Public Morality, and Constitutional Rights

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Every member of the community has an interest in the quality of the culture that will shape their experiences, their quality of life, and the choices effectively available to them and their children.
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Post-Kinsey: Is There Anything Normal About Pornography?

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An “adaptationist” approach to pornography is dangerous because it ignores widespread research showing that pornography harms society at many levels.
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End Child Pornography: Enforce Adult Pornography Laws

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Ending child pornography is as much a matter of vigorously prosecuting those who distribute adult pornography as it is a matter of prosecuting child pornographers. Presidential candidates should pledge to initiate adult pornography criminal cases and fund research into the adult-child pornography link.
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Pornography and National Security

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The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
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Pornography and Socially Responsible Investing

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The practice of socially responsible investing, often associated with opposition to apartheid or support for environmental causes, can also be a way to battle the harms of pornography.
Public Discourse

On Markets and Morals: The SEC, Apple, and Internet Pornography

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The recent SEC scandal reminds us of the prevalence of pornography. Steve Jobs’ decision to ban pornography on the iPhone might provide a way forward.
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Pornography and the Muslim World

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Promoting a sexually permissive pop-culture in the Muslim world gets the true foundations of ordered liberty wrong. In defining our ideals by rejecting our enemy’s, we go from one extreme to another, and miss the virtuous mean.
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The Social Costs of Pornography

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Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Witherspoon Institute reported a set of scholarly findings and recommendations on the social costs of pornography.
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Taking a New Look at Pornography

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Recent technological developments in the production and dissemination of pornography, coupled with recent scientific investigations on pornography’s impact, force all thoughtful citizens to reconsider the social costs of pornography.
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Pornography and the Courts

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The nomination of David Ogden reminds us of the problems caused by pornography, both at home and abroad.
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The Augustinian State of Social Conservatism 

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An Augustinian reading of the present moment would help social conservatives resist both triumphalism and despair. The renewal and invigoration now visible among many social conservatives may be a genuine mercy: a sign that the moral imagination—worn down though it is by the exhaustion of ambient progressivism—has not been entirely extinguished, and that many still perceive the disorder produced when freedom is detached from truth, embodiment, family, duty, and the created order.  
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton: Philosophical Christian and Scourge of Nihilism Par Excellence 

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Rather than consign Scruton to the camp of the nihilists, I think it is more just to be grateful for his efforts to liberate and defend the soul and to fight so courageously against the ubiquitous “culture of repudiation.” 
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Gen Z and Men Who Yearn 

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For a generation marked by a noticeable gender split on political beliefs as well as by ever declining marriage rates, it would seem that young women still retain a desire for a specific vision of manhood. But what exactly is that vision?  
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On Dignity and Desecration 

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The decisive question for this and every age, Trueman argues, is Who and what is Man?
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Günther Anders’s Bleak Picture of the Tech-Perfected Society 

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We are using our genius to degrade ourselves into nothing much at all, and the existential results are anxiety and shame at how small we have become. 
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Poetry and the Politics of Aspirational Conservatism 

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More than the squabbles of party politics, conservatives ought to be concerned with defending our civilization’s way of life and the ordered liberty that sustains it.