January 23, 2012
By Bill Johnson
Pornography does destroy. How can anyone deny that? Yet, there are certainly those that do deny that.
I taught 18 years in the public schools. One of my last years in teaching, I had a 4th grade student that, though she became very special to me, was very volatile.
A few short years later I found out why. Her mother and this young lady told me and testified to the following:
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January 20, 2012
By Bill Johnson
Pornography does destroy. How can anyone deny that? Yet, there are certainly those that do deny that.
Before I left my full-time teaching position as a teacher in the public schools, I received a powerful letter from a mother in a rural area nearby writing to urge me to leave my position as a teacher to stand against pornography and its damaging effects.
To make a powerfully sad story short, she wrote to tell me that her then husband and a friend of his brought into their home on more than one occasion Playboy magazines.
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September 30, 2011
For weeks before last Monday’s premiere of the new NBC show, The Playboy Club, the network had pulled out all the stops to promote the show. First there was a blitz of salacious TV promos leading up to the premiere – often aired during family viewing time. Then they unleashed a slew of articles to entertainment news sources with interviews of Playboy Club actresses promoting the show as an example of “female empowerment.” Finally, as they tried to claim the show empowered women, they proceeded to objectify women by having one of the actresses from the show pose on the cover of the actual Playboy magazine.
With all the money and hype poured into promoting The Playboy Club, the producers must have been reaching for large doses of antacid when the ratings came in. Last week’s premiere episode of The Playboy Club garnered a measly rating of 1.6 in the coveted audience of adults aged 18-49. These ratings are tremendously dismal. One reviewer stated: “Given the paltry premiere ratings of 1.6, The Playboy Club will almost certainly be canceled.”
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