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The Doctor Responds:

Dear Mr. South,

I appreciate you taking the time out to defend your position.

You write as one who works daily for pornography producers?all adults.

I write as one who works daily with pornography?s victims?adults and children.

This accounts for the difference in our views and our reality.

I don't expect you to publish this, nor do I expect to change your mind, but I do hope I have at least educated you to some degree.

Thank you,

jar

To which I reply:

I would actually appreciate an education, please explain to me or point me to reliable reading that explains who these victims of pornography are and how it is that pornography has made them victims.

I would think that the people you work with are much more likely to be victims of abusive childhood, abusive relationships or compulsive behaviour, no more a victim of pornography than a person killed by a drunk driver is a victim of a Budweiser Clydesdale.

While there may be a certain correlation that has no scientific meaning the cause and effect have nothing to do with pornography

Respectfully,

Mike South

Why Do We Let Them Do This Shit?:

I read Dr Reisman's article on worldnetdaily.com today.

I couldn't help but respond. I sent her the following...copied to the editor at worldnetdaily.com

Dr Reisman,


I have worked in the adult video industry for 13+ years, prior to that time I was a computer scientist at NASA and have worked for about every defense contractor known to man.

I entered the adult industry pretty much by accident but I found that it wasn't at all what I thought it was, I found kindred spirits and equally professional people, people like Dave Cummings, a retired Lt Colonel, former advisor to the Joint Cheifs of Staff and instructor at West Point. A man who anyone can respect, and a pornographer.

You made the quote:
"However, pornography is no joke. Thousands of children are kidnapped each year and forced into sex slavery ? commonly preserved as pornography. In 1999, the U.S. Department of Justice recorded 58,200 children kidnapped by non-family members! "

What you failed to do is link this, in any way, shape or form to pornography. We have plenty of adults who willingly get into this business, we don't need or want children. As for myself there are even some adults I won't shoot because I don't think them to be mature enough to be doing it, or I think they are doing it for the wrong reasons, those reasons include drugs and as a quick fix to a financial problem that will only return in another month or so.

If what you are saying is that these abductions indicate that prostitution should be outlawed then again I think you miss the point. Legalized prostitution makes both the women and the men safer, one only need to look at Nevada Brothels to understand that. When prostitutes have a clean and safe place to work they don't have to work in the streets, which should be illegal. They don't have to be scared to call the police and report a crime, robbery, or assault against them.

You state:

"Despite present denials, pornographers would like to see us legalize prostitution and child pornography, as well as all mind-altering drugs like marijuana, LSD, cocaine. These "businesses" will really "contribute" billions to the national economy. "

Come on Doctor Reisman, you know as well as I that you are grandstanding here. I do not know of one pornographer, and I know LOTS of them, who would support child pornography or even lowering the age of majority, in fact many support raising the age to 21.

As for legalizing prostitution, yes most pornographers would probably agree with that one, but so does a large portion of the population not in pornography, maybe even a majority of us. After all should it really be illegal to sell something that it is perfectly legal to give away? And is the regulation of consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes and businesses really a proper function of government? The Republican Party claims to be the party of less government so why do they want to put government agencies in our homes to monitor and approve our sexual behaviour?

Now when it comes to legalization of drugs, I would guess the adult industry would be as split on that statistically as the American population is, plenty would oppose such a move and plenty would applaud it.

In conclusion I would like to point out the following:


Your underage son or daughter is:

OVER 100,000 times MORE likely to be sexually abused by a family member or a friend than by someone in the adult industry

OVER 10,000 times MORE likely to be sexually abused by a clergy member than by someone in the adult industry

OVER 10,000 times MORE likely to be sexually abused by a teacher or day care provider than by someone in the adult industry

OVER 10,000 times MORE likely to be sexually abused by a complete stranger than by someone in the adult industry

OVER 1,000 times MORE likely to be sexually abused by a member of the American Family Association than by someone in the adult industry

So why is it everyone seems to be pointing the finger of blame at us? Child abusers go where the children are, there are no children in porn.

Could we just for once, stop with the rhetoric and untruths about the adult industry and present us fairly?

Could we for once just step back and say hey it's just sex, we are all adults what you do in your bedroom is no more my business that it is your business what I do in mine?

The sexual exploitation of children is a particularly abhorrent crime, could we for once start looking for it where it really happens? If ending this exploitation is really your goal maybe you and I have common ground. If not please feel free to continue to push an agenda that in reality is nothing more than an attempt to circumvent the free speech rights of consenting adults.

I don't expect you to publish this, nor do I expect to change your mind, but I do hope I have at least educated you to some degree.