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The Pain of Porn

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One of the attention grabbing headlines of the past several years was Playboy Magazine's announcement that they would no longer offer nude photographs in their magazine. One Twitter feed recently explained the reason why... "Breaking News: Playboy to stop publishing nude pictures, leaving men only 79,895,422 places to access photos of naked women." The internet is the new environment for the unspeakable. A Gallup poll released in June 2018 states that 43% of Americans believe pornography is morally acceptable. Polls show that young people believe that "failure to recycle" is a worse sin than pornography. We now live in an age of access, with the resulting devastating effects. Movie producer and director Harvey Weinstein spent a lifetime in the movie industry, often featuring gratuitous nudity in Oscar winning films such as "Shakespeare in Love". Sadly, the litany of alleged sexual assaults leveled against Weinstein are merely the by-product of