{"id":1781,"date":"2009-10-15T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2009-10-15T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:35:05","slug":"handy-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/handy-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy Pornography!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1994, I wrote for our school and church a piece I called <a href='http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/writings\/softporn.html' title=\"Despite the title and URL, this is not porn!\">Handy Pornography!<\/a> Here&#8217;s an excerpt from early in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why this increasing freedom of exposure? Well, facts are facts, you know. The news must be reported; stuff must be advertised and sold; anthropological discoveries must be made known; technological advances must be demonstrated. Do any or all or these explain or justify the increasing indecency? Hardly!<\/p>\n<p>Is there news value in having a woman in ice skating attire flinging her leg way up toward the reader? No, the issue is not news. Did <i>Scientific American<\/i> need to use a picture of Marilyn Monroe with her dress flying up overlaid on a picture of President Abraham Lincoln? No, the issue is not advanced computer technology. Do bikinied women actually make a car or radio controlled airplane more attractive, or a soap more effective? No, the issue is not advertising and commerce. Do pictures of third-world, partially-nude women help us understand their cultures better than simply telling the reader they don&#8217;t cover themselves from the waist on up? No, the issue is not anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, we have been snookered and taken in by a &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; of the enemy of our souls! Can you see how he is successfully wearing down our resistance to immorality? We still stand against <i>Playboy<\/i>, but will our children? If we allow in our homes what our grandparents called pornography, will our grandchildren allow in their homes what we call pornography? If we don&#8217;t bat an eye about these things which would have jolted our grandparents, will the things that still jolt us have any effect on our children&#8217;s children? Remember, what parents excuse in moderation, children justify in excess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I urge you to read the entire article. Despite the title (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/writings\/softporn.html\">Handy Pornography!<\/a>) and the URL (www.anabaptists.org\/writings\/softporn.html), it is not pornography. Not even so-called soft porn.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1994, I wrote for our school and church a piece I called Handy Pornography! 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