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PORN IS DEMEANING
MP Column #834 PORN IS DEMEANING I am very sad that a new porn channel, based in Sherwood Park, has been approved by the CRTC. This raises a whole bunch of questions. First, I wish to state unequivocally that I am opposed to the production and distribution of pornographic materials. Two questions arise: How is our society strengthened and made better by pornography? How would our society be harmed if it were not available? My answer to these questions: I do not know of any benefit to Canadian society which is produced by the availability of pornography. I can think of no harm resulting from its banishment. Besides being very harmful to the development of healthy, loving relationships, there is no doubt in my mind that pornography often is a trigger to serious anti-social and criminal behaviour. After raping and murdering a large number of women, Ted Bundy confessed that his addiction to pornography was the trigger to his behaviour. Families and marriages are under extreme attack in our culture. We have become morally numb. In my view, the big leap which has to be made when going from a healthy marital relationship to “getting high” by watching porn is that one has to separate love from sex. In fact, the most unloving thing we can do is to use women, children, and men to produce these images, acting like no more than animals. It is demeaning and repulsive to just use them as a “piece of meat.” I am so sad that they are being tricking into believing the lie that there is nothing wrong with such blatant misuse of their bodies. I am led to believe that much (if not all) of the so-called “sex trade” – pornography and prostitution is in the control of organized crime. A persuasive documentation of this is in Victor Malarek’s book, The Natashas, The New Global Sex Trade. We are talking about thousands of women taken by trickery into the sex trade all over the world, including Canada. I know that we cherish highly our freedom of expression in Canada. There is a fine line between repressing that freedom and allowing things that are detrimental to us. We actually have great limitations on our freedoms in many areas, like restrictions on how we drive, and which “politically correct” words we may use in talking about other individuals or groups. It is not very long ago that all these forms of debauchery were illegal in Canada. There were rules against using offensive language and showing explicit images in our media. Were we wrong to have those rules? I think not, and I think we are losing a lot by weakening those protections for our women and children, not to mention the harm done to men who become addicted to this stuff. I wish that we would focus more on healthy sexual relationships. We have lost our sense of wonder, and the saturation of our senses with all of these sexual images prevents us from reaching the far greater good of healthy families with parents who have an exclusive loving commitment to each other, and children who can be raised in the security of such homes. I don’t believe that the decision of the Canadian Radio & Television Commission will be reversed, but I think that we should all express our outrage at bringing this “industry” into our community and into our country. I will shortly have a petition on my website, and I would encourage you to print off a copy, get some of your friends and neighbors to sign it, and send it to me (postage already paid) at Ken Epp, MP, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6. Ken Epp, MP
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