Please display white ribbons against pornography the week of Oct. 30 to Nov. 6, as sponsored by Morality in Media.
It starts innocently with a boy cutting out newspaper ads of women's underwear and bikinis to make his own Playboy. That can lead to an obsession which can lead to real porn magazines, the Internet and, eventually, the use of women as sex objects. It can hurt his marriage and endanger his children.
Besides the ads, boys are exposed to a constant barrage of sexual images those of us over 40 never could have imagined. It
includes cleavage and bikinis on every channel, from local news to movies. It also includes many teachers, store employees, neighbors, churches, Michelle Obama and others who disgrace our country and the many mothers who should be protecting their children.
We used to be able to turn off a channel or avoid movies. But women have increasingly been forcing their sexuality, shamelessly and selfishly, into the public arena where there is no off button. If men exposed themselves they'd be arrested. Cleavage and bikinis are no different.
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Girls struggle with anorexia and depression and are becoming promiscuous or suicidal because self-centered and insensitive women force their sexuality into our faces, causing women great stress and confusion while tempting males.
By seeing their gender so willingly flaunt its sexuality, young women are brainwashed into thinking this is normal. So I don't totally blame them. They haven't been taught modesty. They "know not what they do," as Jesus said.
We're all to blame for tolerating it, for not complaining and for not boycotting businesses and programs that depict women sexually, all of which contributes to pornography and sex trafficking.
Pornography degrades women. But tell me why women willingly expose their bodies, justifying men's sick, hurtful behavior?
Rosemarie Mitchell
Duluth
