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[theweaselking]

This month's Robert O'Brien Idiot Of The Month winner: Dr Judith Reisman, who claims that pornographic images cause permanent brain damage through the release of toxic chemicals.

Thanks to the latest advances in neuroscience, we now know that pornographic visual images imprint and alter the brain, triggering an instant, involuntary, but lasting, biochemical memory trail, arguably, subverting the First Amendment by overriding the cognitive speech process. This is true of so-called "soft-core" and "hard-core" pornography. And once new neurochemical pathways are established they are difficult or impossible to delete.

The writer of the award asks why sex doesn't cause this same brain damage - my answer is "because sex is only supposed to happen in the dark with your eyes closed".

The Guardian points out:

They foresee two possible outcomes: if they can demonstrate that porn physically "damages" the brain, that might open the floodgates for "big tobacco"-style lawsuits against porn publishers and distributors; second, and more insidiously, if porn can be shown to "subvert cognition" and affect the parts of the brain involved in reasoning and speech, then "these toxic media should be legally outlawed, as is all other toxic waste, and eliminated from our societal structure".

One more quote from our award winner:

The Nazi Party and the Holocaust itself, she writes, were largely the creation of "the German homosexual movement." Thanks to Alfred Kinsey, she warns, the American homosexual movement is poised to repeat those crimes. "Idealistic 'gay youth' groups are being formed and staffed in classrooms nationwide by recruiters too similar to those who formed the original 'Hitler youth.'"

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I should just cover my desk in comfy cushions. Headdesking won't hurt quite so much.

It's called endorphins, Ms. Idiot. Jogging and chocolate cause "permanent brain damage", too.

Please return that "Dr." title, I'm shooting for one, some of my friends have one, and I don't like us being associated with the likes of you.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And by "permanent brain damage" she means "memory".

That's the really impressive part.

Also, is she a doctor of neurochemistry? Biology, maybe? Psychology, just maybe?

Nope! She's got a doctorate in *communications*.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Communications!
Brilliant!

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Only 125 brain cells!
Brilliant! (sorta)

[johan-g.livejournal.com]

The Nazi Party and the Holocaust itself, she writes, were largely the creation of "the German homosexual movement."

The movement of homosexuals into concentration camps, one would think.

What a pathetic little twit.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Supposedly, some Nazi's were into the buttsex, even going so far as to force concentration camp inmates to be receptive.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

It sounds like an instance of the "everybody who violently opposes gays must do so because they're suppressing gay feelings of their own" Urban Legend. Homosexuals were among the largest groups of concentration camp inmates, and being gay was just as dangerous as looking Jewish. Given that, I doubt there'd be *many* of them. At least not openly. Still, there were probably some assholes in the SS (redundant, that, really) who did foist their sexual attentions on inmates of the same sex -- there were plenty of them doing it to the opposite sex inmates, after all.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

2 words: Peer review.

I'd love to see a competant neuropsychologist respond to this "research". Preferably a very, very caustic one.