Let’s be honest about the “adult” film business. First, why do they get to use the word “adult” to describe an industry that is anything but? “Pathetic” was taken? “Adolescent” is too many syllables and letters and too hard to spell?
Second, pornography is a multi-billion dollar business that crosses into everyone’s daily life whether you want it to or not. The best example is America Online, the esteemed Internet service that makes mucho bucks every year thanks to pornography in one way or the other (which, I believe, is a porn film title).
Third: the word “adult” has nothing to do with XXX-rated movies. All porn is child porn. Yes, if you’re using pornography, you’re using child pornography. My guess is you read that and thought, “So be it.” I just accused every person using porn right now of being a pedophile. I can’t think of anything more controversial or inflammatory than calling millions of Americans pedophiles, but that’s the point we’ve reached in the USA: child porn is OK.
An 11-year-old girl is kidnapped some 18 years ago and it’s the news story of the week (it’s over now, so we don’t have to think about it any more). How neighbors and friends didn’t know something weird was going on with Jaycee Dugard’s captors and the squalor they lived in, I don’t know. But this is a case of pedophilia. Her captor was a sexual deviant, and while some of us find what he and his spouse did (what is that relationship like?) reprehensible, most of us will shrug it off – “Hey, too bad. Hope she gets over it.”
I can’t tell you that sexualizing children is wrong. (I think it’s nightmarish.) But Comedy Central features comics telling jokes about having sex with children all the time. I was watching the Fox News Channel late one night, and there is a comic named Jim Norton on the overnight show called “Red Eye”, talking about having sex with a child and everyone on the panel laughed uproariously. Ha ha ha. Sex with a child! Hilarious! The fact that Mr. Norton, whom I know, is slavishly devoted to porn (and therefore child porn) doesn’t matter. Having sex with kids is a punch line! It’s oh-so-hip, oh-so-hot, oh-so-happening!
Michael Jackson anyone?
I’m sorry, he’s a celebrity superstar. R. Kelly? I’m sorry. My bad. I forgot: celebrities are allowed their “peccadilloes.” (Another porn film title)
It’s child porn if children are involved; if children can view it; if children hear about it; if you are an adult and you “shave” – do I need to go further? Of course I do!
Child beauty contests anyone? HELLO? Can anyone hear me? These are not “healthy” competitions for little girls! “Toddlers & Tiaras” is one step from every pedophile’s dream! Are you kidding me!?
David Harold Earls, McAlaster, Oklahoma. He raped and sodomized a 4-year-old (I think that’s an “adult” film title, too). Bad man, right? Bad, bad man. He spent a year in prison. ONE YEAR. He destroyed the life of a child and God knows whom else, and he spent a year in prison. He probably enjoyed it. He’s back on the streets somewhere. He’s free after a year of dreaming up his next escapade to go out and live it.
I can’t tell you child pornography is wrong. I can’t even tell you it should be banned, because we as a nation are all using it. All porn is child porn. I’m no better than Jaycee Dugard’s captor. Neither are you.
Taylor Mason is a comedian, a musician, a ventriloquist, writer and gadget freak. He has headlined every major comedy club in the United States, and has played Carnegie Hall and The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He has been part of two Emmy-winning television programs, including his children’s TV show, “Taylor’s Attic.” He is featured in comedy DVDs “Thou Shalt Laugh,” “Thou Shalt Laugh 2” , “Thou Shalt Laugh 3,” and “Thou Shalt Laugh 4“ plus two episodes of the hit comedy series “Bananas.” Taylor works a mind-boggling 200 nights a year, in front of every kind of audience, and has managed to stay married for the past 22 years to his wife, Marsia. They have two teen-aged sons and live in New Jersey (the only state in America that uses air freshener … outdoors).
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