October 27, 2010
Column #1,522
Porn Addiction &
Answers
by Mike McManus
“He was obsessed with porn,” commented
Lillian McEwen of Clarence Thomas about the years he was Chairman of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “He would talk about what he had
seen in magazines and films.”
She
should know, having had a torrid affair with him from 1981-86. “He was
always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be
potential partners. It was a hobby of his,” she told The Washington Post.
Anita
Hill made similar charges in the 1991 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
about Thomas’s nomination to be a Justice oo the Supreme Court: “He spoke
about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as
women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes. He
talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises
or large breasts involved in various sex acts.” He was also constantly
asking Hill out, which she refused.
Thomas
stoutly denied the charges: “If I used that kind of grotesque language with
one person, it would seem to me that there would be traces of it throughout
the employees who worked closely with me.”
No
doubt, McEwen could have provided corroborating testimony, which would might
have torpedoed his nomination. She now regrets having remaining silent and
has written a book. Twice married and twice divorced, she had a career as
a prosecutor, a Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer, administrative law judge,
and a law professor and is now retired, declaring, “I have nothing to be
afraid of.”
What
matters about the Thomas story is that it shows the power of porn addiction,
that led him to take dangerous risks, even as a very visible EEOC Chairman.
Millions of men are addicted to pornography. It is a marriage killer. The
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers published an article, stating that
more than half of those with internet-related divorces acknowledge “an
obsessive interest in porn sites.”
A woman
wrote to GirlsAgainstPorn.com: “My husband has looked at porn our whole
marriage, and I’m finally done with this BS. We are no longer sexual and I
am just so sick I could puke. I can’t stand him being next to me in bed…or
touching me.”
Good
news! There are solutions: personal change and law enforcement.
PureLifeMinistries.org has helped thousands to deal with sexual sin. It
offers a 12-week phone counseling service, courses and practical materials
such as “Be Secure,” to block porn from a computer for only $30 a year. In
addition to addicted men, some wives take courses.
Men
often do not understand the extent of their problem or its root issue, says
Pure Life’s Jeff Colon. “They need to experience repentance. If they want
to change, they have to do something to change their life.”
The
courses are taught from a Biblical perspective. “Do not let sin reign in
your mortal body so that you obey its evil lusts. Do not offer the parts of
your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves
to God,” Romans 6:12-13.
Change
can be so difficult that some men need residential treatment. Pure Life has
70 men in treatment, the cost of which is only $175 a week, including room
and board.
The
larger answer is that laws against hard core porn must be enforced. The
Supreme Court declared in Miller v. California that “Obscene material is
unprotected by the First Amendment.”
Bob
Peters, President of Morality in Media, co-authored a letter with the
leaders of Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council,
American Family Association and others -- asking for an appointment with
Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder.
They got
no appointment, only a one paragraph letter of blather saying, “We value
your input and will consider your views carefully.”
What
rot! Like the Clinton Administration, Obama is not interested in enforcing
the law.
The
average citizen can be effective. Consider Citizens for Community Values in
Cincinnati, which has been so effective, there are no adult book stores or
strip bars in a county of 2 million people. Its President, Phil Burress,
has mobilized citizens who have gotten strong law enforcement from dedicated
local officials. The group also persuaded Ohio’s legislature to shut down
all sex businesses from midnight to 6 am, costing pornographers $3.6
million.
Girls
Against Porn persuaded American Airlines and Delta to screen out pornography
from its Internet service, and convinced Steve Jobs to limit porn on his
Iphone.
Why not
help one of these groups fight pornography?
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