Internet pornography is a dangerous activity
To the editor:
Having just celebrated our nation’s birth, I thought that my fellow Americans should be alerted to one the most dangerous activities destroying America today, causing personal and familial heartache, moral decay and a weakening of the American spirit, initiative and drive: Internet pornography.
Our nation was founded on great freedoms, high morals and sane laws. However, we do not need to be bombarded with decadent messages that seep daily into our moral fabric, show up in our dress, degrade our values and negatively affect our behavior. Porn is our new drug of choice, a drug that hypnotizes its viewers, weakens their minds and promotes promiscuity and permissiveness. We Americans have become an immoral, permissive and degraded group. Rome, too, was once a mighty empire that fell prey to immortality and decadence. Shall this, too, be our fate?
According to online research services, in the US alone, Internet pornography generates more revenue than all the combined revenues of all of the NFL, MLB and NBA sports franchises. In fact, US porn revenues exceed the combined revenues of ABC, CBS and CBS (6.2 billion, at last count)!
America, instead of wasting your time watching porn, why don’t we find other sane and creative outlets that enhance us, not degrade us. We Americans used to lead the world in great and dramatic ways. Let’s set a better example by choosing to turn away from porn.
Sean Thau
Tampa, Florida