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Porn Generation:
How Social Liberalism is Corrupting our Future
by Ben Shapiro
ISBN#: 0895260166
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. (June 15, 2005)
Pornography: it's everywhere -- at the video shop, in your
newspaper, in your inbox. And although American society grows
increasingly accepting of this state of affairs, porn is unmistakably
dangerous: it presents a warped image of sex and self-satisfaction
that ridicules the values of faith and family, mangling the most
sacred ideals of matrimony. In Porn Generation, Ben Shapiro
explains why. This book is about a generation of Americans lost
in a maelstrom of moral relativism in a culture obsessed with
cheap, degraded, casual sex. It's a powerful wake-up call outlining
what we must do now to eradicate this scourge and reclaim the
values that made America great.Shapiro, a 21-year-old orthodox
Jew, syndicated columnist, and Harvard Law student, knows up
close about the hypersexualization of American youth - which
has taken hold to a degree that astonishes even their Baby Boomer
parents, despite the fact that their liberal attitudes toward
sex caused it all. In this book he demonstrates that as societal
standards and traditional values have declined, and the crassest
elements of sexual deviancy and pornography have taken over the
public square, it is the Americans of his own generation who
have paid the price. Never in our country's history has a generation
been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.
He shows that legalized and all-pervasive porn is by no means
trivial or marginal: it's an integral part of a sustained program
by the forces of relativism, radical feminism, and nihilism to
destroy our nation's moral foundations and replace moral standards
with the idol of personal fulfillment.
Porn Generation reveals:
- Why the "live and let live" societal model is a
recipe for societal disaster - and why the sanctioning and encouraging
of immoral behavior by society hurts all of us
- How revisionist historians sold the cockamamie idea that
obscenity is a right that the Founding Fathers sought to protect
- Ill-considered sex ed programs that teach nine-year-olds
about condom use, push twelve-year-olds to make decisions about
their sexual orientation, and expect fifteen-year-olds to be
as sexually experienced as prostitutes
- How today's sex ed establishment is unalterably committed
to amoral ideas of permissiveness and "tolerance" for
all sorts of deviant behaviors
- Proof: non-abstinence-only education programs have been a
massive failure
- Indoctrination on campus: how universities use their sex
courses as training seminars in amorality and post-modern radicalism
- How Hollywood actors, MTV artists, and assorted self-important
celebrities act as the new elders of a church of corrupt, shallow,
and materialistic humanism
- Nudity on film: how it has become difficult to tell the difference
between call girls and movie starlets
- The limitless sexual license of the porn generation: how
it has led to pandemic spiritual desensitization, emotional alienation,
and lack of commitment
- How liberals have undemocratically imposed their amorality
on America through Hollywood, the education system, the judiciary,
and the media
- Kinsey: how this secret pervert and sex maniac successfully
convinced millions of Americans that almost everyone was a secret
pervert and sex maniac
- How the high percentage of sexually active young people is
wreaking enormous damage upon the emotional stability of an entire
generation
- Why John Kerry felt it necessary to pretend to admire rap
music, despite its total lack of artistic value, overwhelmingly
negative social value, and often frankly pornographic lyrics
- Teen magazines for girls: how they have become morally fetid
training manuals for sex, encouraging young girls to buy liberal
social values wholesale and have contempt for religion
- Lesbian chic: how society actually encourages young girls
today to enter into sexual relationships with other girls
- Sexual advertising: negative effects of twenty years of targeting
the youth market with salacious images and immoral insinuations
- "Whether I'm loving a man or a woman, it makes no difference
to me": how Hollywood stars have made bisexuality the latest
craze
- How Hollywood movies have spearheaded the society-wide charge
for the normalization of homosexuality, again and again painting
homosexuals as saints and intolerant moralists as sinners
- The Oscars: Play a gay man, receive an Oscar nomination.
Play a lesbian, receive an Oscar nomination. Make a film celebrating
homosexuality, receive an Oscar nomination
- "What's the big deal? President Clinton did it":
how Slick Willie's widely publicized misbehavior -- and sleazy
self-justification - have contributed to widespread acceptance
of oral sex among American youth
- Whore with a microphone: how the slutty pop star Madonna
has used her fame to push a destructive message of societal amorality
- Ted Bundy: shocking proof of how pornography corrupts --
and even ultimately led one man to mass murder (and how Playboy
falsely tried to portray him as a victim of sexual repression
rather than sexual excess)
- Why it is so crucial for parents to stop and pay attention
to what's going on in the lives of their children -- and equip
them with the moral compass that will guide them through the
cultural pit of the porn generation unsullied
The Porn generation, explains Shapiro, now inhabits a world
where "empowerment" means sex with no strings attached.
The old faith and traditional morality are universally portrayed
as bourgeois, archaic, sexist, and close-minded. Our new god
is Tolerance of all behavior, our new credo "live and let
live."
But this anything-goes credo is killing us: corrupting our
youth, fragmenting our families, and weakening our society. It
is not right that children are dunked headfirst into the vat
of garbage we call popular culture. If we don't fight back now,
our culture will surely continue to disintegrate. Shapiro includes
here a series of solid recommendations for how we can recover
our values -- and why we must. Porn Generation: it's a
vivid and shocking insider's report from one very troubled generation
to the rest of us.
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Michael Medved, nationally syndicated radio host and film
critic
"Ben Shapiro is quickly emerging as one of our most refreshing
and insightful voices on the popular culture."
Book Description
Based on first person reporting, interviews with refugees from
the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators,
and students a nd a telling cultural critique Shaprio captures
a generation.
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