Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Jude 7<\/i><\/p>\n
4507<\/b> Startling Facts<\/b><\/p>\n
Over 19 million sex magazines are sold in the United States every week. Peepshow emporiums in midtown Manhattan bring in an estimated $5 million a year. <\/p>\n
When the courts liberalized what could be put on sale, the market for salacious magazines skyrocketed. One man and his wife started publishing a filthy magazine on an investment of $350.00 and in the first year they made $650,000.00. <\/p>\n
Time<\/i> magazine reports, \u201cThe market for erotic books, film and paraphernalia, which are sold mostly to the middle-classed and the middle-aged, has increased by an estimated 300% in the past five years. Police experts figure that the annual sales of pornography are about $500 million, and some put to a total as high as $2 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Homer Duncan<\/p>\n
4508<\/b> More Startling Facts<\/b><\/p>\n
Artists at a New York exhibition displayed their \u201cworst work,\u201d in order to question the basis of taste in Western culture. One pornographic poem was covered with a paper curtain that said, \u201cLook at your own risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Europe a fifty-five-minute documentary on the German Richard Strauss showed the composer\u2019s wife being raped and murdered; a horde of sex-mad nuns attacking the hero. After protests had been rejected, the author said: \u201cThank God there is still such a thing as free expression.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this year\u2019s Monte Carlo TV festival, one entry was \u201cFuneral Games,\u201d a play in which a bogus priest seduces penitent ladies, steals from the offering box, and is accused of murder and adultery. <\/p>\n
In California the erotic revue Oh! Calcutta!<\/i>, featuring simulated lovemaking in the nude, was raided by police, and several actors were arrested. Undeterred, author Kenneth Tynan is said to have promised the show would be \u201cmore perverse and decadent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
4509<\/b> Notifying The Post Office<\/b><\/p>\n
Acting under a new law, 500,000 citizens formally notified the U. S. Postal Service in Washington, D. C., that they don\u2019t want to receive \u201csexually-oriented\u201d material in the mails. Any dealer mailing obscene material to people so registered can be imprisoned for five years or fined $5,000, or both. There has never been such a strong favorable reaction from the public, postal officials said. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor half a milion people in less than a year to go to the trouble of completing the form and sending it in is an indication that this material is bothering and concerning many families,\u201d said Assistant Postmaster General Williams Cotter, head of the Postal Inspection Service. <\/p>\n
\u2014Pastor\u2019s Manual<\/i><\/p>\n
4510<\/b> Reusable Mailing List<\/b><\/p>\n
Carol Trauth, a college senior and national youth director of Citizens for Decent Literature, spoke before the U. S. House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. <\/p>\n
She said, \u201cNever in history has there been available to the libertiness such a means of disseminating their philosophy of moral corruption and decadence. Practically every magazine has advertisements from which I can order explicit instruction in sexual activity, much of which is deviate, and almost all of which is illicit. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnswering any advertisement places my name on a list which sooner or later will be sold to a filth peddler who, in turn, will mail me material which is wanton and depraved, capable of poisoning my mind at any age. The pornography trade takes over \u00bc billion a year from the gullible public.\u201d<\/p>\n
4511<\/b> A Different Message Transmitted <\/b><\/p>\n
Illustrative of the change and decay in the world around us is the difference of emphasis between the first telegraph message sent by Samuel Morse and the first still picture transmitted by satellites. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe first telegraph message sent by Inventor Samuel Morse over a 40-mile line between Washington and Baltimore was \u201cWhat hath God wrought!\u201d [In March] the first still picture ever transmitted via two satellites, Lani Bird II and Early Bird, was sent more than 7,000 miles between Honolulu and London.\u201d The picture? Swedish Crown Prince Carl Gustaf together with a coed in a bikini on the beach at Waikiki. <\/p>\n
4512<\/b> Right To Take Pictures<\/b><\/p>\n
A judge in Montreal, Canada, turned down an appeal by a hairdresser for an injunction against the showing of the rock-music movie \u201cWoodstock.\u201d Without his consent, the hairdresser was filmed in the nude with his girlfriend. He claimed the film was an invasion of his privacy. <\/p>\n
The judge refused to grant his plea, ruling that it was legal to photograph a person in public without his consent. If the man didn\u2019t want his actions known and shown, he simply should not have engaged in them. <\/p>\n
\u2014Stanley C. Baldwin<\/p>\n
4513<\/b> Orgasmic Rock<\/b><\/p>\n
A recent article in Time<\/i> magazine, occuring on the show business and TV page, describes what is called Orgasmic Rock<\/i>. These moral perverts seem to be proud in saying\u2014\u201dthis is music to commit adultery with.\u201d This is rottenness and corruption. Disc-hungry teenagers are buying the filthy records. Radio stations are playing them on the air. America is sinking into the cesspool of iniquity. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Moral Laxity .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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