http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20040120/wr_nm/odd_internet_sex_dc RMTs Note: This is fantastic news! I will have to do this when I download some por, er, I mean music on Kazaa this evening!!! Israeli Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web p*rn Browsers JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting p*rn web sites while browsing the Internet. "Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed. Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk. The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a p*rn site intentionally or by mistake.
Why do some people artificially try to suppress things that make them feel good? It's like this rabbi thinks he has done something wrong when he gets a friggin woody. It's not a sin, it's called BIOLOGY.
I agree. It cuts across all religions, nationalities, ideologies, and everything else. It has been my personal experience that the more moral and righteous a person claims to be, the more weird stuff in their lives they have to hide!
When you think about it, sex is a constructive thing. Eating meat on the other hand, a destructive thing, isn't looked at as bad but it involves killing an animal. Who made this stuff up? Why is sex so taboo? It seems like society is slowly coming around if you just look at the evolution of sexuality in the media, but why did it take so long?
90 pecent of the time that i'm on this site, there's usually a p*rn site opened on another window. i'm guilty.
let's be honest...the sex industry isn't exactly what we should be calling "progressive." it's not like we're moving forward as a society because we have easier access to p*rnography. sex is awesome...sex is an absolute creation of God. but it is misused, absolutely. and it is an addiction for many. an addiction that tears apart families...that messes up people's produtivity...and on and on. just because it feels good right then, doesn't mean you should do it. i'd argue that's extremely backward.
Did we really need to know that? I think it is too easy (that is, to easy to be true) to just equate p*rnography with sex and conclude, if sex is good than p*rnography is good too. Likewise, it's a non-sequitor to say that someone who thinks of p*rnography as sinful must also have some sin hang-ups about sex. Is it not possible to think sex is healthy and p*rnography is unhealthy? (Hate to point a hangout thread in the direction of D&D, but I don't see how it can help but go there when it has so many of D&D's pet subjects: religion, morality, and Israel.)
Too much of anything is bad. Too much p*rnography desensitives us to traditional forms of sex. Like any drug, we are always searching for that next high, that next turn-on. Men are visual animals, and we will progress towards (or descend to) more and more explicit images to light our fires. We will eventually get to a point where the line between what is sensual and that which is perverse is blurred.
I read Augustine's Confessions last semester, and he is the guy who is party responsible for this religious way of thinking, at least from a Christian viewpoint. He argues that loving wordly things too much takes you farther away from God. In fact, it was a huge struggle for him to convert to Christianity because he loved sex so much. He even struggles with the idea of music in church, because if it is too enjoyable, then people will forget the true reason for attending. He had similar views on food, and he treated it like medicine, eating only enough to survive. So there's some background information on the subject. Basically, anything enjoyable was a sin. In today's world, not many people still live by this philosophy. Seems to me if these Jews were so devout, then they wouldn't be looking at p*rn, but times are changing.
No kidding. People are so embarrassed of their sexuality. We are sexual beings, biologically programmed to reproduce. If you're a consenting adult (and no animals or kids are involved), rock the Kazaa.
I would like to see how some pro p*rn respondents' views would change if they were related to a woman in the p*rn industry.
This may be the first and only time this will happen, but I totally agree with you. As long as you're not bothering anyone else or letting it control your life, what is wrong with being interested in sex?
Does this caveat seem a bit arbitrary to you? If sex and p*rnography are so great, why exclude the animals, children and the unconsenting? That we have such caveats might suggest that maybe it isn't altogether wholesome -- at least not unequivocally and automatically so. And, if there can be abuses in those areas to be villified, then might not there be other abuses to be careful of as well? Especially considering the article and the rabbi are not just talking about enjoying p*rn but being outright addicted to it and, through a weakness of the will, indulging in it despite a resolution to stay away (suggested by the resulting guilt)? Master Baiter, lol.
