They should have the right to decide also, but why do they have that much money to invest? Jesus needed a borrowed tomb, even if it was for only 3 days. But porn is ruining our culture.
War on web sleaze: Church of England threatening to withdraw millions invested in ISPs over rise of internet porn
The Church of England is threatening to use its financial power to stem the tide of internet pornography.
It is considering withdrawing the millions it has invested in Internet Service Providers (ISPs) unless they take action.
Concern over the easy availability of vile images which demean women and corrupt the young has intensified following the disclosure that Jo Yeates’s killer Vincent Tabak was obsessed with websites showing sexual violence, bondage and strangulation.
Vile: Campaigners claim the seemingly unstoppable flood of hard-core and violent pornography is corroding the very fabric of society (File picture)
Police are under pressure to treat the worst pornography in the same way as child abuse images which are investigated by dedicated teams with substantial resources.
And ISPs such as Virgin Media, BT Broadband, AOL and Sky are under fire for failing to protect vulnerable children from being confronted by shocking images available at the click of a mouse.
The Church of England, which wields significant financial clout on the markets, is reviewing investments worth tens of millions.
It refuses to invest in firms which fuel the very problems Christians are trying to tackle and has already leaned heavily on supermarkets to be more responsible in the way they sell alcohol.
A Church spokesman said members of its ethical investment advisory group are considering new guidelines on pornography which take into account how easy it is to access with modern media. Campaigners claim the seemingly unstoppable flood of hard-core and violent pornography is corroding the very fabric of society.
They criticised the apparent failure of laws introduced in 2009 to outlaw images of rape, torture and extreme sexual violence as well as bestiality and necrophilia.
Anyone caught visiting such websites to view ‘violent and extreme’ pornography was threatened with up to five years in jail and an unlimited fine.
But officials admitted they expected to see only a small number of prosecutions and no extra funding was made available for a proactive police response.
Easy access: Internet watchdogs say they have received thousands of complaints from computer users, including 2,700 in the last year alone (Posed by model)
The policy is in stark contrast to inquiries into the use of child-abuse images which are the responsibility of specially trained teams.
Liz Longhurst, who led the fight for a new law, said she was disappointed that there have been few prosecutions and attacked the recklessness of internet companies.
Her daughter, Jane, 31, was murdered in 2003 by Graham Coutts who, like Tabak, was obsessed with violent strangulation pornography.
She said: ‘The internet service providers have so much to answer for. They go on about freedom, but for goodness sake where was Jane’s freedom?
‘The police should make it routine that if somebody is accused of murder or a serious attack they should investigate if this stuff is on their computer.’
Tabak was found guilty of murder on Friday although the jury was not told that he had trawled an internet site boasting 58,000 videos and 50 categories of pornography hours before strangling Jo.
The murderer viewed images of women being held by the neck saying ‘choke me’ and two naked women bound and gagged in the boot of a car.
The case has rekindled fears that the authorities and internet companies are failing to do enough to protect society from extreme pornography. One web watchdog admitted that orders aimed at forcing internet companies to remove material have been issued just 49 times in the past three years.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said this was despite thousands of complaints from computer users, including 2,700 in the last year alone.
IWF chief executive Susie Hargreaves admitted the watchdog has been largely powerless to act against the tide of extreme pornography.
She said: ‘The IWF is able to act on any public reports of online obscene adult content where it is hosted in the UK and contravenes UK Law.
‘However, we receive very few reports of this type of content which satisfies these criteria.’
The vast majority of obscene material reported to the IWF is hosted overseas or is assessed as unlikely to result in a prosecution.
Last year more than 2,700 reports were made by the public but just a dozen were judged as potentially criminal and eight notices issued.
Experts warn that the overwhelming amount of violent imagery on the internet can desensitise some men to believe that the abuse of woman is normal.
And there is little to stop children accessing and exchanging shocking images and videos on mobile phones and through social networking sites.
Recent figures revealed that more than a tenth of children under ten have accessed inappropriate adult material online.
Campaigner: MP Martin Salter helped introduce the new laws, but now says they need to be tightened
The Church of England’s stance on porn was welcomed by the Rev Richard Moy, who works with young people in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
He said: ‘It is not surprising that people go from soft porn to progressively more hard-core porn to the point where they are so depraved that they do things that they would never imagine doing.
‘I think that if people start using mild porn to gratify a need rather than looking at why they need that gratification then they will eventually move on to more disturbing things.’
Former Labour MP Martin Salter, who campaigned for the new laws, said he wants to see police using them and sending out a clear message.
‘There are some people so evil and so depraved that nothing will deter them. But it was hoped that by tightening these laws we might prevent some unbalanced individuals from being tipped over the edge.
‘Quite frankly, every time the police use these powers and there is more publicity about their existence, the greater the deterrent factor in these cases.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055452/Internet-porn-Church-England-threatening-withdraw-millions-invested-ISPs.html
Porn Is Ruining The Sex Lives Of An Entire Generation
Young men in their 20s apparently have no groove in bed — and it's all because they're addicted to pornography, according to a report in Psychology Today.
But the problem is much more serious than simply either being good or bad in the sack, it's a physiological issue causing a new generation of men to lose their libidos 30 years sooner than expected.
How did this happen?
According to the report, overexposure to sexually explicit images and video have caused men to lose interest in ordinary sexual encounters — including experiences with a real woman:
Today's users can force [their] release by watching porn in multiple windows, searching endlessly, fast-forwarding to the bits they find hottest, switching to live sex chat, viewing constant novelty, firing up their mirror neurons with video action and cam-2-cam, or escalating to extreme genres and anxiety-producing material. It's all free, easy to access, available within seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
After a period of time, excessive porn watchers overstimulate a neurochemical in their bodies called dopamine — the drive behind every "want" and "desire" that humans feel we need to "overcome." But with your libido in constant drive mode, your dopamine reaction will become numb and, eventually, you'll no longer be able to become aroused by the same experiences as before.
This occurrence is similar to veteran drug-users describing their need for stronger mind-inducing chemicals in order to receive the same "high" they once had. In the same way, porn-addicted men will need more extreme sexual experiences in order to feel the same kind of arousal.
It's an endless cycle and if you think Viagra will help, you're wrong.
Sexual-enhancement drugs work by breaking down a blood vessel dilator called cGMP and this is what causes an erection. If your libido is over worked, the drugs can only cause a physical erection, but a pleasurable sensation cannot be activated.
The only cure is to avoid internet erotica at all costs, but this will be "one of the most difficult things you've ever done," says the study.
In order to have "normal" sex again, a "reboot" period — six to 12 weeks — is needed by completely letting go of your pornographic nature. Addicts can experience a temporary loss of libido altogether as well as "insomnia, irritability, panic, despair, concentration problems, and even flu-like symptoms."
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1285/215/Porn_Is_Ruining_The_Sex_Lives_Of_An_Entire_Generation.html
FCC cracks down on religious broadcasters
If a church broadcasts the word of God on TV without closed captions, it risks incurring the wrath of the FCC.
Some 300 small- to medium-sized churches can expect letters from the commission within the next few days explaining why their closed captioning exemptions were lifted for TV shows like “Power in the Word” and “Producing Kingdom Citizens.”
The FCC has been mailing the letters for the past few days to churches from Maine to California, explaining that the hundreds of exemptions are now rescinded and giving the programmers 90 days to reapply.
The churches were granted FCC exemptions from the closed captioning requirement under a 2006 commission decision known as the “Anglers Order” for the Anglers for Christ Ministries program that had argued for exemption from the rules.
While the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau used the Anglers Order as the model to grant at least 298 other exemptions, the full commission overturned that decision Oct. 20 after objections were raised from a coalition of organizations for the deaf and hard of hearing.
The churches may still be eligible to win an exemption from the rules if they can prove they can’t afford closed captioning, but they now have to make their case individually.
“This was a process that went awry,” said Craig Parshall, senior vice president of the National Religious Broadcasters, an international association of Christian communicators. “Now, we are going back to Square One.”
Advocacy groups for the deaf contend that the bureau erred when it granted the exemptions en masse because that created a virtual blanket exemption for nonprofit organizations. Under the closed captioning law, programmers can win an exemption if they can prove that the cost of the captioning will cause an undue economic hardship.
The groups wrote to the FCC asking commissioners to overrule the bureau order arguing that the order “improperly and unilaterally established a new class of exempt programming.”
While the commission’s decision has an immediate impact on churches across the country, it isn’t directed at religious organizations in particular, Parshall said. Small- and medium-sized churches just happened to apply for exemptions under the closed captioning law’s exception for TV shows where paying for captioning is an undue economic burden, Parshall explained.
Advocates for the deaf said they were pleased the commission was taking action on the issue, and hoped that it would make more programming accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired.
“Now, we look forward to viewing more TV shows that were not captioned before,” said Jim House, spokesman for Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. “It is our hope that those producers affected by the decision would see the positive benefits of making their shows accessible to more and more viewers and find that it is the right thing to do.”
Religious broadcasters want to reach the deaf community, but requiring churches across the country to close caption their TV programs could force the programming off the air, Parshall said.
“We believe our message needs to get out to the deaf and disabled communities,” Parshall explained. “All we want is a sensible regulatory structure that recognizes the plight of the small Christian broadcaster.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67260.html#ixzz1cPteiCDF
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