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The result? That is what Pearsonâs doctor friend deals with, the medical treatment of young girls who got treated like porn starsâbrutally abused and coerced into things they didnât want to do. âYoung girlsâchildren, reallyâwho abase themselves to pass for normal in a grim, pornified culture,â says Pearson. âAnother study of British teenagers found that most youngstersâ first experience of anal sex occurred within a relationship, but it was ârarely under circumstances of mutual exploration of sexual pleasure.â Instead, it was the boys who pushed the girls to try it, with boys reporting that they felt âexpectedâ to take that role.â
In times past, porn theatres and smut shops were labeled âfor adults only.â But the sad reality now is that children, adolescents and teenagers are being forced to grow up in an adult worldâand those adults have unleashed a tsunami of depravity unrivaled in human history for sheer accessibility. The Sexual Revolution is a revolution no longer, with all of its central tenets institutionalized by the authorities and educational system.
But I have to wonderâdoes nobody think that when we have to teach teens not to hurt each other through violent sex acts that we may have done something terribly wrong? I feel pity for those who have reduced sex to âconsent.â Humanity once knew that we could transcend mere consent. Consent, yes. But also dignity. Love. Compassion. When we revisit those timeless values, then we will start to recognize our new ideology of sex for the crude and insidious imposter that it is.
The Pain within us
- Chemical Unbalances
I kept learning intellectually about what causes depression and anxiety.
And that itâs much deeper than the story Iâd been told by my doctorâthat itâs just a missing chemical in your brain.
But I think it really emotionally fell into place when I went and met an incredible South African psychiatrist called Derek Summerfield. So Derek was in Cambodia when chemical antidepressants were first introduced there. And the Cambodian doctors didnât know what they were, right? Theyâd never heard of it. So he explained it to them and they said, âOh, we donât need them. Weâve already got antidepressants.â
And Derek said what do you mean?
He thought they were going to talk about some kind of herbal remedy or something.
Instead they told him a story. There was a farmer in their community who one day, a rice farmer, who one day had stood on a landmine and had his leg blown off. And so they gave him an artificial limb and he went back to work in the fields. But itâs apparently very painful to work in water when youâve got an artificial limb. And I imagine it was quite traumaticâHeâs going back to the fields where he was blown up.
And he started crying all day. He didnât want to get out of bed. Classic depression, right? And so they said to Derek, âWell we gave him an antidepressant.â Derek said what did you do? They explained that they sat with him, they listened to his problems, they realized that his pain made sense. He was depressed for perfectly good reasons. They figured if we bought him a cow he could become a dairy farmer then he wouldnât be so depressed. They bought him a cow. Within a few weeks his crying stopped, he felt fine.
They said to Derek, âYou see, Doctor, that cow was an antidepressant.â Now if youâve been raised to think about depression the way that weâve been indoctrinated to, that itâs just the result of â there are real biological factors but itâs just the result of a chemical imbalance in your brainâthat sounds like a joke, a bad joke. They gave the guy a cow as an antidepressant and he stopped being depressed?
But what those Cambodian doctors knew intuitively is what the World Health Organization has been trying to tell us for years. Depression is a response to things going wrong deep in our lives and our environments. Our pain makes sense.
As the World Health Organization put it, mental health is produced socially. Itâs a social indicator. It requires social as well as individual solutions. It requires social change, right?
Now that is a very different way of thinking about depression and anxiety but it happens to fit with the best scientific evidence.
And it really required me to reassess how Iâd felt about my own pain and how I tried to deal it unsuccessfully and open up a whole different way of responding to my depression and anxiety that worked for me.
And I think as the World Health Organization says and the UN says, if we talk less about chemical imbalances and more about power imbalances we will get more at the heart of depression and anxiety and weâll find better solutions.
This was aâthis was such a personal and difficult journey for me. There were these two mysteries that were really kind of haunting me, and itâs a sign of how afraid I was to look into them. I wanted to start doing this seven years ago and I figured it would actually be easier to do a book that required me to go and spend time with the hitmen for the Mexican drug cartels instead, which I then did.
And the first was: why was I still depressed? Iâd gone to my doctor when I was a teenager and Iâd explained I had this feeling like pain was kind of leaking out of me. I didnât understand it. I couldnât regulate it. I was very afraid of it. I was very ashamed of it.
And my doctor said, âWe know why you feel this way. Thereâs a chemical called serotonin in peopleâs brains and it makes people feel good. Some people naturally lack it. Youâre clearly one of them. Weâll give you these drugs. Theyâll boost you back to a normal serotonin level.â
And I felt such relief when I was give that story and even more relief when I was given the drug. And for a few months I felt radically better.
And then this sense of pain started to kind of bleed back in. So I went back to the doctor and he said, âWe didnât give you a high enough dose.â I took a higher dose. Againâgot relief again, and the pain came back. And I was really in that cycle until I was taking the maximum possible dose for 13 years. And at the end of it I still felt terrible.
The second mystery, and to me the much more important one, is: why are so many other people in our culture feeling such profound despair and anxiety? One in five Americans will take a psychiatric drug. One in four middle-aged women in the United States is taking a chemical antidepressant in any given year.
And I thought, I began to think, âCould it really be that just so many people are just mysteriously lacking a specific chemical in their brain? Why does it seem to be rising so much if thatâs the cause?â
So I forced myself to go on this journey over 40,000 miles for my book Lost Connections.
I met the leading scientists in the world who studied the causes of depression and anxiety and the solutions. The first thing I learned is that story my doctor told me is not true.
Professor Andrew Scull at Princeton University says it is deeply misleading and unscientific to say that depression is just caused by low serotonin.
Dr. David Healy in Britain says you canât even say that idea has been discredited because it was never credited.
There was never a time when half of the scientists in the field believed that. It doesnât mean thereâs no value to chemical antidepressants. Thereâs some value, but what I learned is actually I had been wrong about depression all my life.
Until I went to my doctor when I was a teenager I thought it was âall in my head,â meaning youâre weak, youâre just not tough enough.
And then for the next 13 years I thought it was âall in my head,â meaning itâs a chemical imbalance.
What I learned is: itâs largely not in our heads. There are real biological factors that can make it worse, but the main causes of depression and anxiety are in the way weâre living today.
Our society is beginning to realize how awful porn is. Itâs about time men did, too.
April 6, 2017 (TheBridgehead) -- Society at large continues to grapple with the fact that the wide-scale pornification of our culture is coming at a brutally high costâespecially to girls and women. Alabama, for example, is taking a look at legislative ways of addressing the problem:
When Alabama lawmakers return to the Capitol next week they will consider a bill that would criminalize the sale of a smartphone or other internet access device without a pornography filter. Adults wanting to turn off the filters would pay a $20 fee and request the deactivation in writingâŠ
Williamsâ bill would make it a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail, to sell an internet access device without a filter to block out obscene material, child pornography, images used for sexual cyber harassment, or sites used for human trafficking. Selling a device without a filter to a minor would be a class C felony â punishable by 10 years in prison.
Similar bills have been introduced in South Carolina and North Dakota.
On top of that, last week the state of Arkansas joined Utah and the Republican Party in recognizing the porn plague as a public health crisis:
A panel of lawmakers unanimously pass a resolution Wednesday declaring pornography a public health crisis. The bill cites an array of individual and community problems that proponents say are associated with pornography, including sex trafficking and child exploitation.
A supporter for the bill, a former adult film actress, testified in front of the committee warning about the negative impacts of that and other industries. âThe pornography industry, strip clubs, hooters and all forms of exploitation prey upon the vulnerable,â said Jessica Neeley, an adult film actress.
The resolution is non binding, but does encourage the state to seek education, prevention, research and policy change to reverse problems associated with pornography.
Besides the fact that pornography is creating an online rape culture that is beginning to spill over into the sex lives of porn consumers, weâre just starting to discover what the impact of a pornified culture is on those who feel forced to live up to its standard. A horrifying story in the Daily Mail revealed a huge spike in women seeking plastic surgery in their attempts to model their own appearances after the porn stars their male peers so voraciously consume:
Increasing numbers of women are going under the knife to have a âBarbie vaginaâ as a result of watching internet porn, experts claim. Becoming accustomed to what looks ânormalâ as a result of the abundance of x-rated images online, many are seeking an unachievable look.
In 2015, nearly 100,000 across the world underwent a labiaplasty, which involves trimming back the inner âlipsâ to give them the look of a pre-pubescent teenager. And a further 50,000 had vaginal rejuvenation â the tightening of the canal, figures from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) showed.
But both procedures to give women a designer vagina come with health risks, including bleeding, infections and scarring.
The physical risks of emulating and engaging in porn culture go far beyond plastic surgery. Gwyneth Paltrowâs appropriately-named âGoopâ Magazine, for example, recently released a sex issue which advocated for so many bizarre sexual practices that one commentator noted it that it was ânormal sexâ that was now abnormal. One of those practices was anal sex, which brought to mind the horror stories being presented via
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