Well if you think about the amount of energy it takes to conceive and raise a child, don’t you think that diverting that energy to porn might be criminally wasteful?

‘wasteful’? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I think you probably meant negligent, but “criminally negligent” has a defined meaning in the legal code. Which means you probably also shouldn’t be using ‘criminally’ as a descriptor.

Oh, and let’s not conflate two seperate items. The amount of energy it takes to [b]raise[/b] a child is several orders of magnitude larger than the amount of energy it takes to [b]concieve[/b] a child. Combining the two is nonsensical. It’s like saying “if you think about the cost to buy a car and equip it with fuzy seat cushions…”

I guess this is TABOO. I apologize for speech.

No, this is Taboo. What your speech was is just plain stupid. It’s a nice bit of trolling, because the frame you use is so universally applicable…

“If you think about the amount of energy it takes to raise a child, don’t you think diverting that energy to getting a Master’s Degree might be criminally wasteful?”

“If you think about the amount of energy it takes to raise a child, don’t you think diverting that energy towards making your spouce feel loved might be criminally wasteful?”

“If you think about the amount of energy it takes to raise a child, don’t you think diverting that energy towards repairing your house might be criminally wasteful?”

Seriously, nice troll. You hit all the basics:
*conflating dissimilar measurements
*using an absurdist frame
*picking inflammatory, extremist language (criminally?)
*generally abusing the Engligh language
*Using at least one word in ALL CAPS
*Offering a fake apology at the end.

Fake Gary Ruppurt, Saul, you could learn a thing or two from this one!

I guess this is TABOO. I apologize for speech.

Uh. So:

(1) Looking at porn made you think sexual thoughts; and
(2) Reading scripture made you think sexual thoughts; and
(3) Praying made you think sexual thoughts.

I would say that with porn or without it, you tend to think a lot of sexual thoughts.

He implied it was hetrosexual porn he turned down, I thing our man has had a ‘problem’ with his sexuality for a long time.

For those of you who couldn’t listen all the way through, the way he was ‘cured’ of his porn deviance was via a ‘correspondence course’……..

Whereas I like my sick pleasure to be purposeful. Filled to the brim with lovely purpose.

Men know best how to pleasure themselves, so they do. So do women. It is about selfishness in self abuse.

Is there then such a thing as selfless self-abuse? Is that like Professor Geekozoid Sexpert a few posts down, valiantly choosing one off the wrist so as to save some poor girly from the hideous mistake that is instant sex?

I made it to 5:17…then i started to nod off. My finger must have hit the X key or something, accidentally, because next thing I know Porntube is on my screen. heh.

The fact is, homosexuality is evil because it tempts the sexes away from procreation and toward sick pleasure of no purpose. Men know best how to pleasure themselves, so they do. So do women. It is about selfishness in self abuse.

Interesting confession there Gary. So what you’re saying is that gay sex is vastly better than straight sex but you are not gonna go that route because that would be selfish of you. You long for teh gay sex but you deny yourself that pleasure (men know how to pleasure me best) out of a sense of duty and self sacrifice. This makes you a better man.

Is there something you’d like to tell us Gary?

I am so putting that on a t-shirt.

Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms: 89%

I think that’s a good thing, really, because the other 11% are probably, like, in person from an idling windowless van or something like that. Plus,

Sexy teen cheerleaders who are actually middle-aged FBI agents: 85%

Received unwanted exposure to sexual material: 34%
Received unwanted exposure to Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up: 38%

Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms: 89%
Received unwanted exposure to sexual material: 34%

I don’t think those are complete statistics.

Children’s character names linked to thousands of porn links: 26 (Including Pokemon and Action Man)

I suspect Key is the only person surprised that googling “Action Man” is going to turn up some porn. Otherwise, this seems pointless. Let’s do a quick google check on Pokemon (with Safe Search off, natch). Hmm, 63 million hits. Now, I’m sure some of those links are indeed porn – Pokemon porn does exist, I’m horrified to say – but I’m not seeing any of it in the first 200 links. The only way that Billy is going to find porn here accidentally is if he’s searching for a video of Pikachu’s Teabag attack.

I’m also very curious as to how they settled upon as exact a number as 26. Does this mean that Teen Titans will give you porn, but Yu-gi-oh! is safe? Does that leaked sex tape of Spongebob and Patrick count as two characters, or just one? We need guidelines, damn it!

Women keeping their cyber activities secret: 70%

This one is just creepy. How dare those women have any desire for privacy?! There isn’t a similar statistic on how many men are privacy-loving commies, which should give you an idea who these women are keeping secrets from.

7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address: 29%
7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address: 14%

What, really? Come on, kids, you do know you can have more than one e-mail account, right? Surely more than 14% of you have a e-mail account set up for spam.

Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week: 53%

This one made me chuckle smugly, then feel slightly guilty.

Ratio of women to men favoring chat rooms: 2X

Another odd one. I’m not sure if Key understands that chat rooms can be used for things besides cybersex. Apparently this stat is from an alternate universe where 19-year-old co-eds pretend to be teenage boys and Spock has a goatee.

8-16 year olds having viewed porn online: 90% (most while doing homework)

10% of 8-16 year olds must lack internet access. And finally:

Largest consumer of Internet pornography: 35 – 49 age group

In other words, younger Americans are tech-savvy enough to locate *free* porn.

An eighteen year old guy turning down sex to watch porn? That’s so wrong it’s scary.

If you’d like to move out here & pay for everything, I’m available. (Which just shows what a prize I am.) It’s like Florida, but not as humid, & the cucarachasPalmetto bugs aren’t as large.

What a fucking sap. Just as w/ drugs & other drugs (liquor) if you have a problem, there’s something deeper causing the symptoms of excessive smut or intoxication. But we’ll blame Satan & smut, rather than being sexually molested, otherwise abused, sent off to war, or whatever, & taking responsibility by getting some brain help.
Is there anything in the bible about smut? ‘Cause Ol’ Don says they only preach the KJV bible at his church.

“Ever-where.”

I’ve looked at some smut in my life. Once or twice. Mostly made me laugh. And I’ve never wanted to wave my weenie at strangers. (“I swear, officer, I was just taking a piss. I didn’t even know that Girl Scout troop was there.”)

[T]he values of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who built America up in the Edwardian and Victorian ages.

Ah yes, the Robber Barons. Those are some values. And nothing was built “up” after WWII, when the rest of the industrialized world was a smoking ruin. Nope, it was values like the 60-hour work week, child labor, slavery, impure food & drugs, trusts, yada yada that built this country “up.”

I like porn as much as the next person – as long as the next person is someone who likes pornography, of course. But picking a fight with an actual flesh and blood person with whom you could have sex so that you could go watch porn? I cannot even imagine.

Seriously – how many people, given a choice between real sex with someone they love, and petting the kitty to pornography, would choose the latter? Heck, most of my interest in porn at this point comes from the fact that I haven’t had a significant other in (mumble, mumble) years, and eventually you reach a point in your life where the thought of picking up a person in a bar, or doing the blind date thing, and taking them home sounds about as erotic as a gynecological examination.

If you’re turning down sex to watch porn, I humbly submit that the pornography is not your problem.