Early bird gets the…?

You would be shocked if instead of WORM the last word would read PORN! But that is just the truth of the matter. Today, children as early as 2nd Grade (and sometimes younger) are easy prey of the tidal wave of indecent materials –through print-ads, digital media and especially the Internet– that constantly threaten them within the seemingly safe confines of their home.

Alfred Kinsey, the infamous father of the sexual revolution, would have been delighted with the Internet. He would have employed it as another ‘proof’ for his absurd claim that children are born sexual.

The sad fact about this is that the hundreds of children studied by Kinsey were the helpless victims of pseudo-sex-scientists. These ‘experts’ were composed of pedophiles and abusive parents trained by Kinsey. Under the pretext of scientific license, they recorded in detail their subject’s reactions (that is, their own children) whom they sexually abused.
Up to this day, Kinsey and his companions’ deviant methods, unscientific and vicious research has not been prosecuted. Many of the then young victims remain constantly under the vile nightmare of their childhood abuse.

If it were not for the persistent and heroic research by anti-porn advocates such as Judith Reisman, little would have been known about true motivation behind Kinsey’s distorted ideas on human sexuality and its devastating effects on society then and until now.

Reisman and others reveal how such early exposure to abuse has tremendous effects on children’s emotional, psychological and social development. Today, this often occurs because parents may no longer spend much time with their children. Parental presence is virtually substituted by digital mediums that open unsuspecting realities for children.
Unsupervised, children can surf into seemingly innocent sites but find themselves snared by trigger contents that can stimulate their curiosity towards many disorders. Leaving a child alone with tablet, plus with Internet access would be like giving him a Swiss army knife to play with. The consequences can be dreadful.

This is why presence, supervision and a creative approach to children’s free time and recreation is important. Prior knowledge of websites and their content is also necessary to help our children steer a straight course towards virtue. A recent list called the “Dirty Dozen” may help.

This list includes individuals, websites and corporations that hosts the spread of pornography and other vices. Some of these listed groups have responded to the protest of ‘Netamaritans’ (good Samaritans in the Net) by trying to curb pornographic content in their respective spheres of competence. But Netamaritans claim they are not yet doing enough!
Here is 2014’s shocking “Dirty Dozen List” (source: https://www.pornharms.com):

• Attorney General Eric Holder – Mr. Holder refuses to enforce existing federal obscenity laws against hardcore adult pornography, despite the fact that these laws have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and effectively enforced by previous attorneys general.
• Verizon – Verizon pushes porn into our homes now through hardcore pay-per-view movies on FIOS, smart-phones, and tablets and as an Internet Service Provider with insufficient filtering options.
• Sex Week – Yale and other colleges and universities repeatedly offer Sex Week on campus. Porn stars are routinely invited to lecture and pornography that glamorizes “fantasy rape” is screened.
• Google – Google’s empire thrives on porn. Porn is easily available, even to children, through YouTube, GooglePlay, Google Images and Google Ads.
• Tumblr – This popular social media blogging site bombards users with porn. Users must only be 13 and the filters do not work.
• 50 Shades of Gray – This best-selling book series and upcoming movie are normalizing sexual violence, domination, and torture of women. Oprah Winfrey Network, Broadway and other mainstream outlets have even promoted this abusive lifestyle.
• Facebook – Facebook has become a top place to trade pornography, child pornography and for sexual exploitation. Facebook’s guidelines prohibit such behavior, but the company is doing little to enforce them.
• Barnes & Noble – This Fortune 500 Company is a major supplier of adult pornography and child erotica.  They regularly put pornography near the children’s sections in their stores and provide free, unfiltered porn publications on their Nook e-reader.
• Hilton – This hotel chain, like Hyatt, Starwood and many other top hotel chains, provides hardcore pornography movie choices. Porn channels are often the first advertisement on their in-room TVs.
• Playstation – PlayStation’s live-streaming abilities are filling thousands of homes with live porn and the PlayStation Store sells hundreds of pornographic and sexually violent games.
• American Library Association – The ALA encourages public libraries to keep their computers unfiltered and allow patrons, including children, to access pornography.
• Cosmopolitan Magazine – The magazine is a full-on pornographic, “how-to” sex guide, encouraging women to accept the pornified culture around them. They specifically market this content to teen girls.

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Perhaps, not everything in the list may apply to our cultural setting, but react we must. With prayer, a lot can be done, especially praying for the conversion of those promoting such immodest and inhuman content and also their victims.
Furthermore, a reasonable and serene vigilance is required of parents and guardians. This is above all through their good example in their temperate use of gadgets, social networks and media, and striving to make their homes always cheerfully wholesome and productive.
Finally, getting involved in your own little way will count in a big way! Write/e-mail letters of complaint to magazine publishers, advertisers, TV stations, etc. React, calmly and charitably! Never give up, because as long as we keep this noble fight for decency, modesty and true love in our families and communities, we shall prevail!

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“There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and undo the savage work of those who think that man is a beast. And that crusade is a matter for you. (St. Josemaría, The Way, no. 121)”