Dennis Taylor reports the alarming fervor of a group of Christian groups who formed prayer rallies in and around Los Angeles against porn and the industry. Even the Playboy Mansion wasn't spared. What was even more curious is that the group turned out to be a doomsday cult preparing for the Earth's supposed end of 2012.
There has been a lot of hoopla lately over Pope Benedict XVI stance on condoms. The Pope believes that distributing condoms is not the answer to curbing the spread of HIV in Africa and that it actually may be escalating the problem. He also believes that placing a bible over an erect penis before intercourse is the only guaranteed way to prevent the spread of Aids. What a fucking lunatic!
Protesters in Bali staged a silent demonstration against the Islamic government's newly minted anti-porn legislation that draws a blanket ban over anything 'that incite sexual desire'. Bali is a primarily Hindu culture that feels the government in Jakarta did not take their customs or beliefs into consideration in implementing the laws.
A new blog at ChristianNymphos.com espouses the idea that just because some people are religiously devout, doesn't mean they can't be horney. The operators of the blog do not feel that sex demeans God or women, and are proud of their sexuality within the context of a monogamist relationship and a devotion to spirituality.
For some odd reason, perhaps because they are even more religiously intolerant in England than we are in the US, the city of Devon banned Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" from being shown in cinemas by assigning it an "X" rating.
The Eastlake Community Church in Bothell, Washington played host to a "Porn and Pastries" event featuring a wide assortment of tasty treats along with three days worth of sermons espousing the dangers associated with pornography. The anti-porn event was organized by the operators of xxxChurch.com, and is one of 100s of such events organized nationwide specifically to fight against pornography.
A British chaplain has either gone completely insane or is very bad at telling jokes... The Rev. Peter Mullen wrote on his blog that all gay men should be tattooed with health warnings, such as "Sodomy can seriously damage your health" on the buttocks and "Fellatio kills" on chins.
In one of the sadder crimes against the history of porn, a right wing religious group ceremoniously burned over 100 reels of vintage porn footage from the '70s and '80s. The footage was uncovered when the church bought and renovated an old drive-in theater, and the local fire department (tax dollars?) appeared to lend assistance in delivering the 'holy hose-down' to quell the flames.
For some couples, porn is a great way to stimulate a relationship and bring sexual fantasy into the bedroom in a safe and sane manner. For others, especially those who are from a morally superior Christian background, porn marks "one of the most malignant forms of marital decay in our time", and shows how one couple's sexual remedy can be another's sexual poison.
The religious right has an annoying way of abusing quotations from famous people and turning them around to make a case for outlawing porn.
