I feel truly sorry for Dean Thiemann and his family. It is evidence of the raw power of pornography that it can suck in even the most upright, righteous and educated. No one ever knows. Not the wife, not the postman, not the casual stranger who sees you go into the sleazy porno shop. It's equivalent to the ability to download cocaine.
Utter destruction is only a click away.
Increasingly, big media companies are pushing sexually explicit programs as part of their normal commercial activities. Network television broadcasts as early as 8 p.m. on weeknights are now full of programs that are surprisingly blatant in their references to sex, The New York Times reported Dec. 10. Things have changed a lot in recent years, the Times noted. The Time article mentioned that in the mid-1970s, under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and Congress, the networks agreed to designate 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for programs that were considered appropriate for all ages. Even if a court eventually ruled that the FCC had improperly coerced the networks, relative caution continued to prevail with early evening programming for a few years.