[Ecumenic] Sexual Junk Food: Porn's Degrading Effects
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| WASHINGTON -- A group of scholars, social scientists, and psychologists are sounding alarm bells that pornography is much more harmful to society than most people think. The group recently revealed before the National Press Club startling new evidence of how widespread porn has become in the U.S. |
Twilight Fans' Vampire Addiction Affecting Relationships
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| With fans turning the area outside the Nokia theater in L.A. into a tent city in advance of the "Eclipse" premiere, the Los Angeles Times examines the phenomenon of fans whose lives are upended by their fierce love of the vampire books and movies. The Times found women who have nearly lost their marriages by neglecting their husbands in favor of "Twilight" fan sites, blogs, and message boards. One woman gushes that she's seen the movies "over 300 times." So-called "Twilight addiction" proliferates on the Internet, where a fan can take any of hundreds of quizzes to self-diagnose their condition,... |
Woman describes how porn addiction destroyed marriage, calls for more scientific study
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| www.catholicnewsagency.com Woman describes how porn addiction destroyed marriage, calls for more scientific study Related articles: Hearing on the Brain Science Behind Pornography AddictionChildren’s Access to “Adult” Pornography Online - and What Parents Can DoThe Harmful Effects of Pornography New York City, N.Y., Jun 15, 2010 / 01:23 am (CNA).- In a previously published National Review Online article, a woman who chose to remain anonymous shared the painful story of her husband's pornography addiction and its detrimental effects on their marriage. After citing various statistics on the nature and affects of pornography, she called on the scientific community at large... |
Following iPhone’s Example Windows Phone 7 to Ban Porn Apps
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| Wednesday June 9, 2010 Following iPhone’s Example Windows Phone 7 to Ban Porn Apps By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiREDMOND, Washington, June 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Following Apple's lead in trying to keep pornography off its iPad and iPhone products, Microsoft has announced a new set of policies for the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace that will not allow porn or sexually suggestive content.The application certification requirements for Windows Phone 7 program developers states that Microsoft will no longer allow content such as "Images that are sexually suggestive or provocative, Content that generally falls under the category of pornography, or Content that a reasonable... |
Heartbreaking twist in Koppel son tragedy
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel had the unconditional love of his parents and a second child on the way -- but the twin demons of drugs and booze were a deadly lure he couldn't duck, friends said yesterday. Andrew "Drew" Koppel, 40, had "many substance-abuse issues," said a longtime family friend. Still, that friend found it "shocking" that Koppel died in a stranger's seedy Manhattan apartment Monday after nearly 12 hours of drinking whiskey with a man he had just met in a Hell's Kitchen bar. "What's really puzzling the family is why he ended up... |
Study: A Cigarette A Month Can Get A Kid Hooked
Saturday 31st of July 2010 05:40:05 AM
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| Teenage smoking is often thought of as kind of innocent experiment, but a drag on a friend's cigarette may be the beginning of something that will be hard to shake. A study of adolescent smokers in the journal Pediatrics tracks the course of addiction to nicotine among a group of sixth-graders. After following 1,246 middle-school children for four years, researchers say a pattern emerged of occasional smoking that led to an addiction to tobacco: A cigarette a month will do it. "When people are just wanting a cigarette, every now and then, they think they just enjoy smoking," says study... |
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