I attend school there. Yesterday I was walking past club rush. I see a sign that says the new drug. I thought it was gonna say something about bath salts. Nope. It was saying porn is the new drug. Life in the heart of happy valley.

Yep, because it alters your mind and brain chemistry just like other drugs. Oh wait, love between two people makes the exact same alterations, and is even more addictive. The withdrawals from getting off the love drug are much worse than getting off the porn drug. And people are just as likely to relapse, given the opportunity.

Therefore, I think they should expand their title to "Anti Porn and Love club."

The NEW drug? Do these kids know that porn was invented before the internet?

You beat me to it, anybody. I was going to mention Orwell's anti sex league as well. Mormons are so functionally illiterate and unread that they can march right into "1984" and not notice the change in scenery.

Yep, and after they spend so much time and energy talking about porn, guess what many of them will go do?

How you gonna keep them down on the farm when Red Tube gives out new porn flicks for free every single day ?

I bet their parties are a lot of fun

Yup. I bet they serve candlestick salad and purple koolaid for refreshments afterward.

I too have a special place where I go and sit around all day, definitely NOT looking at porn. It's called 'work'

How precious.

The answer is in simple techniques, and this requires a very low tech solution. Any time you feel sexy thoughts coming on, you go to the fridge, take out the cold water, and empty several cups of it into the crotch of your pants. Problem solved.

this is what's called taking up space in their head rent free

"a sign that says the new drug"

Bog Saget has something to say about that:

(language warning!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vpin9VhNck


"boo this man!"

Do they sit around and talk about how they are not viewing porn?
Do they discuss amoung them selves what is porn how it affects people, what kinds of porn is out there?
Do they have show and tells of the porn they should avoid?
Can I join?

A most worthy endeavor.

Especially considering that
21,000 children die avoidable deaths
every day.

Zenzamin, once again you hit the nail on the head.

Mormonism is such a waste.

Did they have to choose one person to decide on what is considered porn or not?

I am ashamed to admit that my cousin is one of the founders of this club, and one of their most vocal advertisers. She is a "recovering porn and masturbation addict". So is her husband.

that must make for some interesting family reunions

Your cousin had normal and healthy sexual feelings and behaviors previously.

But today, she's engaging in behaviors and activities that will, almost undoubtably, cause her to have abnormal and unhealthy sexual feelings and behaviors in the future.

I think it makes about as much sense as saying,

"Facebook, the new drug."

"Junk food, the new drug."

"Video games, the new drug."

A lot of things affect brain chemistry and have the potential to be addictive. Don't just single out porn.

Frankly, in my military career, I worked in Middle East policy, with a very nasty insurgency raging in Iraq (trust me, I'm going somewhere with this). It always struck me that much trouble in the Middle East was due to sexual repression. I was all for dropping skin mags over the most violent areas. Kind of like the old leaflet campaigns, but with Penthouse, Hustler, Club International, etc. instead. I figured some reading material like that could fill a bit of the gap in their sexually repressed lives and ultimately lead to a decrease in violence. I called it "Porn for Peace." I never gained any traction with the idea (wonder why?)....could've backfired, I suppose.

These guys, Fight the New Drug, are idiots. On their website they have a science section that pretends to defend their assertion that porn is a drug because it triggers a dopamine response. They cite several peer reviewed scholarly articles that are supposed to support this claim, which most likely they just grabbed at random from a fifteen minute Google scholar search. Any way, I read the papers identified in the citations and found that they did not support the claims they were used to defend, so I emailed each of the paper's authors and got several responses. In each case the authors of the papers cited by Fight the New Drug's article, How is Pornography Really a Drug, stated that their research did not support the specific claims nor did they agree with the overall position that pornography was a drug. I have sent these to Fight the New Drug and they did not respond until I pushed them, then finally they just chose to blow me off. I have copies of all the emails still.

This is one of the stranger "moral" groups out there, because they violate honesty and integrity, representing the facts as they are rather that for they want them to be, in order to serve their "greater good" of combating porn. They advance their agenda from a platform of "science", and yet have no regard for the science. Presumably they feel good about themselves for this. very strange.

I have discovered that hot Fudge Sundaes also "trigger a dopamine response" in my brain!

And so do french Fries.

And cute puppies.

And beautiful sunsets.

And fun music.

And laughing with good friends.

And skiing down fresh snow.

And having "legal" sex with my spouse.

And everything else that is desirable that activates the dopamine pleasure centers in my brain. But, obviously, if it is fun, it must be a drug!

I don't think I'll ever understand why mormon god cares so much that people look at boobies or touch their wieners. Esp. when he is simultaneously mandating abstinence until marriage.