Another sex workers art show

Another prestigeous university, Willilam and Mary has a sex workers art show:

Last year, Gene Nichol, president of the College of William & Mary,
said he wanted to make the school's chapel more welcoming to non-Christians, so
he removed the cross and stored it in a closet. The cross was returned after a
strong public outcry. Recently, President Nichol allowed a censored version of
what is known as the "Sex Workers' Art Show." That show featured monologues and
performances by strippers, homosexual prostitutes, and other sex workers. Nichol
said free-speech issues trumped any objections to the show. This marks the third
year the show has been held at the school (OneNewsNow).

Parents, this is what you get for your donations and hard earned tuition at some schools. In this case, though, the president of William and Mary has just resigned after being notified that his contract would not be renewed. We can only hope that the trustees of Duke and Yale take notice.

Sex Show at Duke

Apparently Yale is not the only Ivy League University promoting the degredation of women. Duke University recently put on a Sex Workers Art Show.

Duke has an explicit policy prohibiting strippers on campus, which was
implemented as a result of the lacrosse affair. The fact that the administration
not only allowed but paid for (University Fund and Cultural Fund) this affair on
practically the two-year anniversary of the Lacrosse Affair in which they and
the Women's Center and Women's Studies (all contributors to the event) skewered
the lacrosse team for hiring strippers, is especially extraordinary. Shockingly,
this show was far more inappropriate than the lacrosse party. The University
Fund is comprised of contributions from the President's Office, Provost's
Office, and Student Affairs (ChristianNewsWire).

I think parents and donors of these universities should began a mass revolt, transferring their kids and money to other universities! I won't hold my breath though.

Sex week at Yale

When I think of prestigious Ivy League schools I generally think of scholarship and research on such things as Cancer or AIDS. Imagine my surprise to discover that this week is "Sex Week" at Yale! (Michelle Malkin). The schedule includes sessions all week on topics like:

*The female orgasm

*Everything you’ve always wanted to know about sex (and sex toys)

*Seduction: How to get the girl you’ve always wanted

*The business of pornography; how Vivid (a porn company) made it mainstream

*Also includes a panel discussion with a porn company’s superstars (complete with a screening!)

This raises several questions: Wasn't the women's rights movement concerned in part about how women were portrayed as sex objects or pieces of meat? Didn't the Surgeon General of the United States once publish an extensive study demonstrating a link between hard-core pornography and violent crimes against women? Why isn't the National Organization for Women, therefore, protesting this travesty! Why do tax payers have to fund a university that promotes an industry that increases the incidences of STD's and violence against women? Why do parents continue to send their kids and hard earned money to such a place?

Pornography and libraries

According to OneNewsNow:

In less than an hour, patrons at one of the Dallas Public Library's 26 branches
accessed more than 5,000 pornographic websites, according to a recent
investigation by the Dallas Morning News. David Burt -- author of Dangerous
Access: Uncovering Internet Pornography in America's Libraries -- describes the
scene at the Dallas libraries.

"The terminals are out in the open. There are no privacy screens, no privacy booths or anything," says Burt. "Anybody who's walking by can see what's going on, seeing these people accessing thousands and thousands of pages of pornography every day."

Public libraries are backed by a very powerful legal arm of the American Library Association so protests are often ineffective.

On the other hand, money always talks. If your public library refuses to filter for pornography, the time to make their lack of responsiveness a major issue would be the next time they want a tax increase to fund some library improvement project.

After all, why should tax payers continue to fund an organization that thumbs it's nose at the very tax payers who support it?

Sex and neurochemistry

Is our sex-crazed culture messing up the neurochemistry of adolescents' brains? Dr. Gary Rose (MD) thinks so. Read the article at CNS News.

Porn shops and libraries

According to the Christian Newswire:

GLEN ELLYN, Ill., May 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- Taxpayers are footing the bill
for a planned protest by Illinois librarians against a proposed internet
filtering bill. On May 8th, the Illinois Library Association (ILA) issued an
"action request" calling for a coordinated protest against the Internet
filtering bill, HB 1727, recommending that all public libraries in the state to
obstruct Internet access on Monday, May 14th.

The American Library Association vehemently opposes all filtering of public library internet access. They view filtering as “censorship” and a threat to first amendment protection of freedom of speech. This, of course, is ludicrous!

Imagine, for example, that someone offered to donate a large truckload of new books to a public library. The only catch is that 5% of the books contain graphic depictions of sexual torture, and the librarian must select all or nothing.

Almost all librarians would reject such a donation. Librarians would insist on selecting the material they want from the donation and they would reserve the right to dispose of any material they didn’t want. They would never think of such selection as censorship.

In the case of the internet, however, the American Library Association pressures librarians to accept the whole truckload and many librarians simply buy into conventional ALA “wisdom” and follow along like sheep (after all, there is nothing worse in the library profession than to be labeled a “censor”)!

American society does not allow minors to enter porn shops, why should we allow minors to enter libraries that make porn available to minors? Either public libraries need to filter internet access to minors, or like porn shops, public libraries need to be held legally liable when they allow minors to access pornography.

Pornography and Muslims

Dinesh D’Souza published a thought provoking article on pornography. Excerpts appear below but if time permits, please read the entire article at Townhall.Com:

On a recent trip to Istanbul I encountered a group of Muslim students who
insisted that American culture was morally perverse. They called it
“pornographic.” And they charged that this culture is now being imposed on the
rest of the world. I protested that pornography is a universal vice. “Yes,” one
of the students replied, “but nowhere else is pornography in the mainstream of
the culture. Nowhere else is porn considered so cool and fashionable.
Pornography in America represents an inversion of values.”

As I returned home to the United States, I wondered: are these students right? I don’t think American culture as a whole is guilty of the charge of moral
depravity…When they protest what they see as the glamorization of pornography
and vice, however, it’s hard to deny that they have a point.

In a manner that the older generation of Americans finds scandalous, porn
has become socially acceptable and lost its moral stigma.

The liberal defense of obscenity and pornography began many decades ago
as a defense of great works of literature and of free speech…But now some
liberal advocates insist that all forms of sexual explicitness are equally
deserving of legal protection and that no restriction of obscenity or
pornography should be allowed.

The pornographer generally knows that he is a sleazy operator. I have read
interviews with men like Larry Flynt and Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw
magazine. Typically such men do not even try and defend the social value of what
they do, other than to point out that there is a demand for it. It is only the
ACLU and its supporters who celebrate the pornographer as a paragon of the First
Amendment and a contemporary social hero….If we confine ourselves to liberal
culture and its apologists, my Muslim interlocutors would seem to have a
justified complaint.

The author is right. This is one area in which Muslims have a legitimate complaint.