Michael Pearl & Pornography: 20 years of NGJ

[lemondrop]

Anyone else with, uh, zero desire to monitor their spouse's porn habits? We own all kinds of interwebz-connected gadgets, and I'm pretty sure the husband uses them to watch porn on occasion. I'm confused, though, because he does not actually seem to be stuck in a vortex of demonic porn addiction where he does nothing but desperately wank all day, eyes peeled Clockwork Orange style. In fact.. it doesn't seem to affect our lives at all! Is that just Satan tricking me? Should I still implement a North-Korean police state in our home?

I'll just be over here, mainlining espressos, one eye on the keylogger, the other on a pants-cam. Thanks, Michael Pearl!

[salex]

Yeah, because porn is totally different than comparing notes about sex with one's bride, as he describes as something he did with a friend before his honeymoon (and then writes about specifics of his honeymoon in his published story about it)

Plus, how he described the women he assumed were hookers to his children, his very descriptive talk about various evil sex, including this bit.

Porn for the holy is just talking about the ebil sex at lenght....

[happy atheist]

I may never post again, just so it doesn't change!! "Partaking of Hell's Cocktail" I am so proud!!

Post sparingly. You'll only have it until you reach 500.

[polecat]

Yeah, because porn is totally different than comparing notes about sex with one's bride, as he describes as something he did with a friend before his honeymoon (and then writes about specifics of his honeymoon in his published story about it)

Plus, how he described the women he assumed were hookers to his children, his very descriptive talk about various evil sex, including this bit.

Porn for the holy is just talking about the ebil sex at lenght....

Graphically detailing sex with his wife + talking about prostitutes with his children = seriously messed up.

[GenerationCedarchip]

Anyone else with, uh, zero desire to monitor their spouse's porn habits? We own all kinds of interwebz-connected gadgets, and I'm pretty sure the husband uses them to watch porn on occasion. I'm confused, though, because he does not actually seem to be stuck in a vortex of demonic porn addiction where he does nothing but desperately wank all day, eyes peeled Clockwork Orange style. In fact.. it doesn't seem to affect our lives at all! Is that just Satan tricking me? Should I still implement a North-Korean police state in our home?

I'll just be over here, mainlining espressos, one eye on the keylogger, the other on a pants-cam. Thanks, Michael Pearl!

My husband and I must just be crazy. We do wacky stuff like trust each others' judgment.

True story - Not long after we got married, we were in town visiting my folks and went with them to the old church. Somehow it came out that we didn't monitor each other's email and there was an audible gasp in the room.

[lawlifelgbt]

Sure, great idea.

Be so obsessed with protecting kids from porn (never mind that you won't find it unless you go looking), that you cripple them for life in the 21st century by making sure they won't have experience with computers/smart phones/other new technology.

[Burris]

I hope Netflix doesn't have porn. I would be mortified to learn that I am PAYING for porn in the 21st Century!

So, to avoid porn...

...isolate your family from average people

...be totally paranoid - about everyone, all the time

...either join a cult or start one

Those all sound so appealing.

My husband and I have each other's passwords for most online activity, but not for spying on one another. Sometimes we need them, for example to pay certain bills or to move money between chequing and saving accounts.

[guitar_villain]

I wonder how much the "OMG the internet is a porn box" is a cover for a greater desire to avoid the secular world? Sure, there's porn on the internet, but it doesn't seek you out. But there are also entire web sites devoted to discussions of evolution and geology, copies of the Qu'ran and other holy books, tons of secular music and movies and so forth. It's a lot easier to stand up and say "I'm protecting against evil porn" where you might get a fair number of reasonable people to agree with you than to say "I don't want my kids to know that the earth is billions of years old" or "I don't want my kids to read the Bhagavada Gita".

Or perhaps it really is the sex thing. Do these folks ever think about anything else?

[kpmom]

I may never post again, just so it doesn't change!! "Partaking of Hell's Cocktail" I am so proud!!

I'm jealous of your new rank title, Miss M!

Any bartenders out there? What do you all think would go into a Hell's Cocktail?

[nomoxian]

I'm jealous of your new rank title, Miss M!

Any bartenders out there? What do you all think would go into a Hell's Cocktail?

Not a bartender, but I'd assume something like Fireball (cinnamon whiskey)

[polecat]

I'm jealous of your new rank title, Miss M!

Any bartenders out there? What do you all think would go into a Hell's Cocktail?

Goldschlager for sure.

[Fallgirl30]

Goldschlager for sure.

With a shot of Dekuyper Hot Damn.

[IrishCarrie]

Ahhhh, clearly none of you have ever tasted poteen - illegally distilled Irish hooch....

One sip and you start choking and snorting.

Two sips and your nose and throat go numb.

You can drink it quite happily from then for the rest of the night, but good luck remembering anything about it the next day :D :D :lol:

[hoipolloi]

Or perhaps it really is the sex thing. Do these folks ever think about anything else?

Michael Pearl doesn't.

[princessmahina]

I thought this was another sex scandal.

I'll admit to hoping it was a sex scandal. Not one involving children, of course, but perhaps an unsavory but long lasting fling with one or more (male or female, I'm not choosy) NGJ staff members. Anything to bring this man's child abuse empire down.

[Milly-Molly-Mandy]

hahahahaha at 'porno freak'

How do people take this man seriously? (I did for a while, but I wises up)

New thread count? Michael Pearl Porno Freak ;)

[eviek]

I just read this to my family over lunch. :lol:

[salex]

My husband and I have had internet since the early 90s, and have never monitored one another's use, because we know each other. We make our living from web based software, and in the mid-late 90s, contemplated the many ways people made money on the web. We declined some offers to host/manage porn sites or coordinate/connect girls with clients for online sexrooms, because we wouldn't be pimps in real life, why would we be online pimps.

It is sort of a joke to think that online porn is "more available" than it was when one had to watch it on tv, at movies, by the tapes, by books, go to clubs, etc. It "may" be easier to get and there "may" be more availablity, but the truth is, anyone in the history of the world who wanted porn or sex for pay has likely been able to find it.

[DaisyD]

Since I'm the one who ordered and paid for my husband's subscription to Playboy until I noticed the last four issues were still unopened, what does that make me in the Pearl world? The mailman seems to think that makes me the best wife on the planet. That poor, poor man...

[littleblueheathen]

Haha! Reminds me of when my cousin's family got their first computer with internet back in the 90's. My aunt fought it tooth and nail, because she thought it was a literal gateway for Satan to enter their home. Every time anyone got on the internet she'd pitch a fit, because even though nobody was actually looking at porn, it was THERE, WAITING, or some such crap.

My cousin 's words - "You ought to hear Mama when somebody gets on the internet-Porn Porn Porn, Devil Devil Devil is all we hear the rest of the day" Since then, "Porn Porn Porn, Devil Devil Devil" has become a catchphrase in our family for when someone is going on and on about something and won't shut up.

[Hane]

Back in the '90s, a colleague's town council was dead set against computerizing municipal offices because they were CONVINCED that "The Internet is for Porn" (thanks, "Avenue Q"!) and served no other purpose. He made a presentation demo-ing other towns' internal and external websites and managed to turn them around.

[MamaJunebug]

Can't stay in Pearl land too long before I get really angry, so in brief: projection and diversion.

Projection: M. Pearl is obsessed with porn so figures/knows every other man is.

Diversion: If we're talking about porn, we're not talking about Pearl's prescribed child abuse.

[Handmaiden of Dog]

I'm pretty sure that absinthe we drank while watching Eurovision Song Contest last weekend is Hell's Cocktail. They did something to it so the wormwood no longer gives you hallucinations but it still tastes and feels bizarre.

And speaking of hell on earth...if there was a competition to name the devil's minions I'm pretty sure that Michael Perl's name would be on the list. He has indirectly (and directly) caused so much misery to so many innocents. How many evil men in the world actually advocate beating 4 month old babies? Honestly I'm not usually a violent person but hearing that Perl was beaten with rods to within an inch of his life would make me smile with pleasure.

[AnywhereButHere]

Last weekend, at a party, I had 3 (or so...) glasses of sangria. Then someone handed me a scotch, so I drank that. Somewhere in the mix, I had a few jalapeno poppers. Then I got the hiccups, so I slugged a spoonful of vinegar to get rid of them. I'm pretty sure it was the vinegar that put it over the top into hell's cocktail territory! :angry-devil:

I just have to shake my head at Pearl and his cohorts and their sex obsessions. Then again, thinking about Michael Pearl and sex at the same time is seriously making me need a drink or six (hell''s cocktail in any permutation welcomed!).