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INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY
Pornography dominates the internet. The number of web pages devoted to pornography is approaching five hundred million. Worldwide, one out of every eight web sites was created to display videos of people having sex. 25% of all search engine requests are for pornography. Sex is the most searched word on the internet.
PEOPLE HAVING SEX VIDEOS
Pornography is a $100B per year business. It is a huge profit center for hotels across America. It generates more revenue than all professional sports combined. Internet pornography will create $4B of income this year in the United States alone. The largest consumer group is those age 12 to 17. 90% of all American boys and 17% of the girls over age 12 have seen internet pornography.
89% of all internet pornography is produced in the United States. 8% of all emails sent contain pornography—perhaps five billion of them every day. 72% of hits on internet pornography web sites occur between 9 am and 5 pm—while people are at work. The loss of productivity from employees watching pornography at work is in the tens of billions of dollars. 10% of American adults admit to being addicted to watching people having sex videos.
VIDEOS OF PEOPLE HAVING SEX
Forty million American men regularly view videos of people having sex. Odds are: you know some of them. Generally, they do it secretly and furtively—knowing those who love them would not approve. Christian men report that 43% of them have watched internet pornography. Many now use a program that shares their internet activity with an accountability partner to curb this sinful behavior.
In the last five years there has been a fair amount of publicity about this controversial issue. All of the chatter I have picked up has been along the lines of "What's wrong with men? Why do they objectify women? Why do they dehumanize them?" Then the other day I came across a startling statistic: 28% of the viewers of internet pornography are females! I guess I'm out of the loop.
AMATEUR PORNOGRAPHY
The pornography business has suffered great losses of revenue the past two years. Before the puritans get too excited, let me tell you why. Amateur pornography is the new Queen. And it's free. There are hundreds of thousands of amateur pornography web sites where the people having sex videos are uploaded by folks at home. It seems that along with reality TV, what people really want is to see real people having sex.
Note that I said Queen. That is because the stars are definitely girls and women. In maybe half of the amateur videos you do not see the man's face at all. He is simply represented by his appendage in videos of real people having sex. The females certainly do not hide their faces. They seem pretty proud of what they are up to.
REAL PEOPLE HAVING SEX
Now this seems to me to be a sea change in internet pornography. I remember reading a number of scholarly papers about how the women of porno were abused victims being exploited by heartless men. It appears that millions of gorgeous females are now creating and uploading onto the internet the videos of themselves having sex in every conceivable fashion for the world to see. I won't get into the details in this family publication, but let me just say if you can think of any degrading act that can be done to a woman—you can see it done for free on the internet right now.
All of the hubbub I have heard about this societal problem has been focused on the user; as opposed to say drug use, which is focused on the dealer, the pusher. And this brings me to the point of this Hub. Who are these whores and why do they do it? Every one is some man's daughter; maybe somebody's sister; somebody's grandchild; and sometimes somebody's mother. Mature ladies having sex is a big category of amateur pornography.
One theory is that everybody wants to be famous—regardless of for what. I suppose if you don't have any other talents you can shine in this arena. But that doesn't explain it all because one very famous web site belongs to a group of guys who prowl the streets of major cities; approach innocent-looking seemingly-regular girls who are total strangers; offer them money to have sex (they pay between $50 and $300); and secretly film them with a hidden camera. They have countless takers as evidenced by the endless number of videos on their website.
INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY
In the 1960s Playboy had to struggle and pay well to persuade good looking girls to pose showing only their breasts and buttocks. In 1974 Penthouse began showing pictures of female genitalia—shocking at the time. It was in the 1990s that hardcore sexual photographs appeared in mainstream magazines.
In 1972 the first widely released pornographic film debuted, Deep Throat. Linda Lovelace, the actress in the film, was not that hot, but few women in America were willing to do such things on film for the world to see. Plenty did them off-film, of course. But soon there came Behind the Green Door, featuring the lovely (looking) Marilyn Chambers. The genie was out of the bottle. Now it seems that the girl next door will have sex on camera for worldwide broadcast just for kicks. Millions of them.
The number of amateur pornography videos on the internet appears to be beyond counting and new ones are uploaded every minute. Let me return to what's really on my mind: who are these whores and why do they do it?
AMATEUR PORNOGRAPHY
A special thanks to my research staff for their fine work gathering information for me, a necessity since I have never seen internet pornography personally. The photos on this page are all of whores who star in amateur pornography. It was hard to find any photos of them not in compromising positions.
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CriticalMessage— Thank you for taking the time to read my article on Amateur Pornography. I appreciate your excellent, kind, and gracious comments.
As you say, "food for thought fuels awareness [and] understanding . . ." But it need not produce acceptance. That depends on acceptance of what and what you mean by acceptance. There was once not so long ago a distinct difference between tolerating an evil and approving of it. That line seems to be blurred now and a heavy political correct totalitarianism smothering the public with the idea that all things under the sun must be applauded, to make everybody feel good if nothing else.
I am all for everyone's right to free expression. But I also believe in the right to free association, apart from government coercion or public school brainwashing, if you know what I mean.
The idea taught now, currently in vogue, that truth is relative is of course false on the face of it. If it is true then the assertion of it is false.
Happiness is in fact achieved through long-term success in one's family, faith, vocation, and community under circumstances where one's own effort could have easily failed. In other words, where one's efforts made a difference between success and failure.
As you said so well "there is, and should be, an underlying code in justified morality to prevent us from becoming the monsters we all should fear."
I understand your wish that "judgment" be abandoned. "Non-judgmentalism" is the politically correct buzzword of the day. It was not long ago that having Good Judgment was a solid virtue, one deemed necessary to a Good Life. Looking around at the cesspool that passes for American culture I think Good Judgment needs to make a comeback before it is too late. As you implied, moral anarchy is never a good thing for a society.
What a wonderful world this would be if people would live Godly lives.
I love how food for thought fuels awareness, understanding, and eventually even acceptance.
James provided quite the buffet to be consumed, digested, and purged in ways that we self determine to be necessary in order to maintain our own self comforting individuality.
And although we all have our own comfortably preferred interpretations on every imaginable topic out there ?
Our rights to express, participate in, and promote our preferences and beliefs without shame is how liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness is actually achieved.
Understanding that there is, and should be, an underlying code in justified morality to prevent us from becoming the monsters we all should fear.
That code is enforced through laws that have their rightful purpose to insure that the innocent are protected as much as society is realistically capable of providing for.
What a wonderful world this would be if we could just accept, respect, and tolerate each others personal rights to pursue their preferences, and beliefs without vengeful judgements and irrational physical reactions towards each other.
What a wonderful world is would be.
Acceptance, respect, and tolerance even if we do not agree.
SubRon7- Thank you. It is nice to see you here, Mr. Nelson. Glad you stopped in.
That word, "whore." I suppose I threw that in for a bit of shock factor. And to demonstrate through anachronism how rapidly times have changed. No doubt any girl who would allow themselves to be filmed having sex when I was young would have been unanimously decried as a whore. Of that, there is no doubt. Feminism threw the word out as part of its campaign to re-educate Americans that men and women were the same. (of course, you and I know they are not.)
I surely agree with you that internet pornography can be "just as habit-forming as tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and can easily turn into an obsession."
I very much appreciate your presence and your remarks. And you are welcome.
James A Watkins esq.
Very interesting hub, James. First, I'm sorry that you refer to these girls as "whores". Why? Because I feel many of them do it on a dare, and maybe just once, and then the one time haunts them forever, and then of course the ones who don't know they're being filmed, and maybe after that they do it for the money. I haven't looked at internet pronography either, and certainly not because I'm a prude. One reason, I know it is just as habit-forming as tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and can easily turn into an obsession. I don't have time for an obsession. Ocassionally a freebie will come my way, and yes, I look, but I refuse to type in those words that will take me to the stars and beyond. Also, I stand by what I said in my first couple sentences. Thank you for a thought-provoking hub,
James W. Nelson
Lone Ranger— I will join you in this wonderment. Your comment is most profound. Thank you for it. You really made me think. And I agree with where you were going with this. But isn't that a shame?
Best wishes to you and God Bless You, L.R.
JAW
I wonder what this world would be like if our grandfathers were able to see into the future and saw the moral degradation of their grand children and great grandchildren. I wonder if they would have fought WWII or perhaps just enough of them went oversees such that Rosie the Riveter had no reason to leave home.
Best wishes and be well - L.R.
Lone Ranger— Thank you!!
You wrote: "women flooding the workforce and driving down wages and benefit packages whilst leading to greater unemployment and broken homes is yet another plague handed to us by feminism, along with abortion and divorce."
There are plenty of people who will argue with that but I am not one of them. :)
You have some interesting ideas about how "many men get involved with porn because their wives neglect them at home."
I am sure what to think about that so perhaps I'd better stand neutral.
There is no doubt that, as you say, "there couldn't be porn without the sea of women who are standing-by willing and able"
I kind of wonder where the daddies, granddaddies, uncles, and brothers of these women are. I remember when a girl's big brother would chaperone her dates and keep her from kissing a boy. Now young, beautiful women will engage in practically any sexual act, no matter how demented, and put it on the world wide web for all the world to see—forever.
And like you I am amazed that where a "secret" sex tape would have sunk a career a decade ago or so now it seems to boost popularity for female celebrities. Isn't that incredible!?
I am certain that if we could go back in time and tell my grandparents what America would be like in 2012 there is no way they would believe me. The defining down of deviance has gone that far.
Sex sells, of that I have no doubt.
I appreciate this visitation from you. I enjoyed reading your outstanding comments.
JAW
Great Hub, James!!!
I know you mentioned it, but I would like to reiterate that women flooding the workforce and driving down wages and benefit packages whilst leading to greater unemployment and broken homes is yet another plague handed to us by feminism, along with abortion and divorce.
I also read that as soon as the economy took a downturn a few short years ago, it was women that began flooding the skin industry. It seems to me that if women are so eager to make money by flashing their skin, then they probably were doing it on Wall Street and everywhere else beforehand.
I think that many men get involved with porn because their wives neglect them at home. I would say that nearly every wife uses sex as either a weapon or a tool of manipulation in her marriage: she uses it as a carrot or as a whip, to get her man to heel or role over. At some point, men rebel, and seek other avenues for physical intimacy, unfortunately internet porn is most convenient.
The other thing I would like to mention is that without female porn stars there really wouldn't be a porn industry. Now, while only 30% of women may watch porn, there couldn't be porn without the sea of women who are standing-by willing and able to be the next Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian.
Just read that Paris has now made $1.5 billion dollars over the past 10 years or so and porn was the secret to her success and for Kim Kardashian who filmed herself having sex with a black guy and then put in on youtube or some such network.
Next thing you know, Kim has her own reality t.v. show and the Kardashian clan is making $65 million dollars per year and that doesn't even count the $18 million dollars Kim made from her fraudulent wedding.
Sex sells, my friend, and women have known this since they discovered man's sex drive and they have used this knowledge against men ever since...in one way or another. I say it is women who are enslaving men with sex and manipulating and exploiting men's weakness for their own gain. Sweet as spice and everything nice...not on your life!!!
Best wishes, be good, and behave - L.R.
Greg— I am sorry to read that you are disappointed by my article. Still, I appreciate your visit and I thank you for your comments.
As to your first question, by that criteria I don't suppose anybody could criticize anybody for anything—including you having critical thoughts toward me for this article.
The word "whore" is in my dictionary with a clear meaning that surely fits women who have sex on film for all the world to view. I suppose a man might be called a "cad" or "bounder" a "lout" a "rake or a "philanderer." I didn't invent the English language, I merely use it to the best of my ability.
I find this whole article filled with agenda and confusion. Just out of interest if these young women who star in their own amateur porn videos of their own free will and are as you say "proud" of their sexuality, then why does someone external to their lives and choices have the right to criticize them so vehemently? Further more how can you while promoting women's equality and empowerment use the word 'whore'?! Isn't that a male word used to keep subordinate?
Becky Katz— I do not recall if anyone has said as much on this page but I have certainly made that point in several of my other Hubs.
Thank you for reading my article. I appreciate your very good question.
Has anyone suggested that the fall of morals coincides with the removal of prayer from school and the removal of church from our lives?
platinumOwl4— Hey there! Thank you for visiting my Hub. I do not remember reading your article on this same subject. I will make a note to myself to go and look for it soon.
I think I read about the horrific story you related here. Demonic activity has never been higher in America. Let us pray for our nation that it may not crumble but turn from its wicked ways and once again honor the Lord.
Hello James A Watkins, I did not read this article, I only glanced over it. The reason is I a am well aware of it. I published a similar article a couple a months ago. The people who are involve are in every walk of life. The following is a true story. A member of a religious order had a computer in his office and a file cabinet. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for others his computer crashed. He called in technician. When the technician repaired the computer he did not call the "member" he called the police. The police then went to the location of the "member" and searched his office and found the file cabinet. In the file cabinet were photos of small children engaging in horrible act all cataloged and in alphabetical order.
JadedLove— Thank you for coming over to read this Hub. I very much appreciate the compliments, as well as the voted up and useful. I will read some of your work here on HubPages soon.
Great research. A very interesting read. I am not one who is into porn, but how you explained things is useful to me. Up awesome and useful.
6 String Veteran— Thank you! I agree with you that there should be much sadness attending this development. Yes, the mystery was part of the beauty indeed.
I agree with your comments. I appreciate this visitation and your thoughtful insights. Welcome to the Hub Pages Community!
Great Hub (funny too). The sad thing in all this to me is that the God-given act of sex (or, in the Biblical sense, getting to 'know' one another) has been raped. The mystery was part of the beauty. I guess porn took the place of sex-gossip. Now there's no need to hear (and wonder, or vomit) when it's so easy to click and watch.
I believe adults should be able to view pornography if they wish. Children, however, need to be protected from pornographic images until they are of an age where they can decide for themselves. For me, that age is when they have left the home or have gone away to college.
SheZoe— And I of course agree with Jesus that we must reach out to the lost and help them in any way we can. I don't think we can do that by ignoring an epidemic of sinful behavior. My stimulus for writing this Hub was that I have seen umpteen articles about the sinfulness of the people who watch this stuff but until my article I had seen nary a mention about the people who provide it. Without the latter you couldn't have the former.
I do not mean to throw stones, to be sure. I am a sinner too. But at least I admit it. I don't want these girls stoned. I want them to respect themselves and stop having sex on camera. For their own sakes.
A.A. Zavala— You are most welcome. Thank you for visiting my Hub. I appreciate your comments.
wheelinallover— You ask a very good question. I think there are less-attractive men that prefer to imagine themselves with these beauties than to be with what they can get in real life. Sadly, I think many married men get addicted to pornography and ignore their flesh and blood wife in the next room, too. Welcome to the Hub Pages Community!
A.A.Zavala...if you are referring to my comments, i wouldn't say that pointing out that these women are human beings no better or worse than the rest of us and their actions are simply a product of the world we live in is "a hornets nest". Things like this should make us grief. Jesus reached for people like this daily. how far we've strayed from following in His footsteps. Instead of kneeling in the dirt to write words of compassion that cause the stone throwers to drop their stones-we've become the stone throwers. if pointing that out is a hornets nest it's a nest that needed to be stirred up.
What a hornets nest this topic became, but I can't think of anyone else to put the bees back in the hive. Thanks again for sharing.
When I clicked to read this I thought it was amateur photography. The photo's are of good quality but the information was enlightening. This is not a subject I follow or deal with as I am too old to care. My personal view has always been why pay to watch something you could be doing.
SheZoe-- Your commentaries are deep indeed. I think we are seeing the fruition here of the perfect storm: broken homes promoted by the government; a film and television industry that promotes hedonism and denigrates traditional values; and mostly the removal of God from the education system-replaced by secular humanism. This is based on the Darwinian idea that human beings are not created persons but mere animals who have appeared on this earth accidently and without any transcendent purpose or meaning. That along with its attendant moral relativism.
Thank you very much for your wise words. I agree with you and I appreciate your insights.
i would just call them human beings who are responding to what they get the most attention for like human beings have a tendency to do. in other eras traditional morality would stand in the way of what is happening currently but women have always gone to great lengths to be beautiful because they have always been valued most for what they look like. So while the feminist movement may have taken things to extremes in one way-where femininity is minimized as of no value, to me, this looks like an extreme the other way. Morality has been taken out of the picture so they are being an extreme version of the message that has always been given to women. They may have fallen for the idea that they are being "free" like men have always been, however, it is the same message as always: "You are property". "You are an object." You are "for this purpose". At it's most complimentary it's "you are a work of art" or "you are a goddess"(as someone up above pointed out their beauty). That is still not placing their worth where it should be placed. Jesus seems to have placed it correctly in His treatment of women. It is also not attributing to women the value God gave them when He created us: "In the image of God He created them, male and female. In His own image..." the moment we start categorizing people,we also are objectifying them and it should alert us to the fact that we are feeding into the same thinking they are-just the flip side of it. It doesn't matter if technically they could be called "whores". The term is one meant to diminish the value of someone and turn them from being a human being with a heart and mind and soul into a thing. So no, i wouldn't call them that because compassion dictates not reducing people in that way. i would call them human beings who have lost sight of where their true value lies.
SheZoe— I agree with your second comment as well. I used that word to deliberately be provocative. I wanted to see what the reaction to it might be. If these girls do not fit the word—who does?
SheZoe— Hello! I'm glad you could make it. You are welcome. Thank you for reading my work. Welcome to the Hub Pages Community.
Your comments are extraordinarily profound. I have read them several times.
You wrote: "when an entire culture makes it clear that the most valuable asset women have is their bodies"
Why do you suppose it is that right at the time in history when the feminist movement rose to its greatest height, your sentence above would also be true. On the surface, it seems backwards. I mean, right when women have for the first time entered the workforce by the tens of millions, and now form the majority of college graduates, they are objectified more than ever?
It would seem to me that women became what the feminists called "equals" they would have objectified less. Is it that this so-called equality has made them more like men—who have long been rather shameless? Is modesty old fashioned?
I can say that if you would have told my grandparents in 1965 that in the future millions of beautiful girls would have every sex act known to man on film for the whole world to see they would never have believed it. Has basic human nature changed so much so quickly?
and i wanted to add, that while i suppose it may in some way be technically accurate to call them "whores" it diminishes the tragedy and devaluation of what has happened. it puts them in a nice little box that says "they are there and i am here. that makes me better than them". one of the saints-i don't remember which one i'm sorry, was talking about how differently he perceived lepers when he realized he had contracted leprosy. No longer was it "you lepers" now it was "we lepers". To some extent, small or great-we are all a part of what has happened.
hi there :o) i decided to check out some of your stuff since you are following me. Thank you btw. the psychologoy of what i think has transpired goes deep into the psyches of women and it's not just now-it's always been there. to keep it as simple as i can rather than write a whole book about it, i will just say that when an entire culture makes it clear that the most valuable asset women have is their bodies and what they can do in bed-this happens. Most women feed into it to some extent. We are obsessed with our looks. We are obsessed with our looks because we've been taught to be. Men have taught us to be and other women teach us to be. It starts when we're little girls. It's in every culture. But as more and more clothes come off, WHAT has to look good gets more and more all encompassing until the drive for perfection becomes all consuming. As "regular" women see "perfect" women with few or no clothes on on screens day in and day out and see their significant others seeing them, they also become consumed with trying to achieve perfection. More and more-women objectify themselves as they work on themselves like they would their house or anything else. Then like anything someone works hard at-the desire is to show it off. Couple that with the obliteration of sexuality having anything to do with morality and of morality in general and you have women who have worked hard to look good, to perform well and they want to show it off and they don't have any qualms about it because why should they? Sexuality no longer is about anything intimate or personal. Not about love or relationship. Morality has nothing to do with it. it's portrayed as the equivalent of a sports event and they are the star. quite the ego boost. All throughout history has been a "goddess worship" tendency within people. and it's not just men, women want to BE goddesses. this is just our cultures equivalent of it.
drpastorcarlotta— I have read your extraordinary comments three times. You speak the truth, Sister.
You wrote:
"Pornography can be the first step on a very slippery slope of ever-increasing wickedness and immorality (Romans 6:19). The addictive nature of pornography is well documented. Just as a drug user must consume greater and more powerful quantities of drugs to achieve the same “high,” pornography drags a person deeper and deeper into hard-core sexual addictions and ungodly desires."
Amen! This is absolute fact. The old thrills get boring and new highs are necessary. Once that portal to demonic sin is opened, it grows wider and wider unless shut tight.
You also wrote these profound words:
"By far, the most searched for terms on the internet are related to pornography. Pornography is rampant in the world today. Perhaps more than anything else, Satan has succeeded in twisting and perverting sex. He has taken what is good and right (loving sex between a husband and wife) and replaced it with lust, pornography, adultery, rape, and homosexuality."
Amen!
Thank you for these teachings. You are right on. God Bless You, Doctor Pastor.
Now James you know what I'm going to say, lol...
By far, the most searched for terms on the internet are related to pornography. Pornography is rampant in the world today. Perhaps more than anything else, Satan has succeeded in twisting and perverting sex. He has taken what is good and right (loving sex between a husband and wife) and replaced it with lust, pornography, adultery, rape, and homosexuality. Pornography can be the first step on a very slippery slope of ever-increasing wickedness and immorality (Romans 6:19). The addictive nature of pornography is well documented. Just as a drug user must consume greater and more powerful quantities of drugs to achieve the same “high,” pornography drags a person deeper and deeper into hard-core sexual addictions and ungodly desires.
The three main categories of sin are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). Pornography definitely causes us to lust after flesh, and it is undeniably a lust of the eyes. Pornography definitely does not qualify as one of the things we are to think about, according to Philippians 4:8. Pornography is addictive (1 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Peter 2:19), and destructive (Proverbs 6:25-28; Ezekiel 20:30; Ephesians 4:19). Lusting after other people in our minds, which is the essence of pornography, is offensive to God (Matthew 5:28). When habitual devotion to pornography characterizes a person’s life, it demonstrates the person is not saved (1 Corinthians 6:9).
For those involved in pornography, God can and will give the victory. Are you involved with pornography and desire freedom from it? Here are some steps to victory: 1) Confess your sin to God (1 John 1:9). 2) Ask God to cleanse, renew, and transform your mind (Romans 12:2). 3) Ask God to fill your mind with Philippians 4:8. 4) Learn to possess your body in holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:3-4). 5) Understand the proper meaning of sex and rely on your spouse alone to meet that need (1 Corinthians 7:1-5). 6) Realize that if you walk in the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). 7) Take practical steps to reduce your exposure to graphic images. Install pornography blockers on your computer, limit television and video usage, and find another Christian who will pray for you and help keep you accountable.
Well as usually James I gave my opinion from the Word of God. Love ya!!
englishtea— You are most welcome. I surely do not mean to offend. I suppose they—whoever they are—say the worst respoonse is no response. :)
I agree with you that individual people need our understanding. In my daily life, I do extend my understanding, empathy, and compassion to all persons I meet every day.
Here, in my writing on HubPages, I am a bit more detached and expressing my concern over the direction of our society and culture en masse.
I am glad I have not lost your readership. My goal is to get people to think a bit. It sounds as if I have accomplished that mission. :D
Very good of you to write back with your warm words. I feel better now.
James, thank you for taking the time to speak with me about your article. Please don't remove or change anything on my account. I'm not offended my your article or your choice of words. I firmly believe you have the God given right to write and say things the way you see them. But I did want you to know that your article rose up a response in me. Which is a good thing. And I agree with you that as a society we have become far too tolerate. On the other hand the people that need our understanding the most seldom recieve the support they need. And frankly, I am offended by these girls/women that do this sorted thing on the internet. I am offended by the entire sex business.
Again, you are right about the dictionary meaning of the word "whore". But there are many words in the dictionary we don't even use anymore because they are outdated. Which brings me to another question for myself. Does the meaning of a word change to keep up with the times? Sex, polictics, and religion are complicated issues and maybe it shouldn't be that way if we could all agree on some basic guide lines and had the same level of education. So... since that's never going to happen I've tried to raise my level of compassion. It certainly doesn't solve the problem but it sure makes me feel better at the end of the day. Thank you again and I continue to read more of your articles. I sure do wish I had been aware of your articles when I was home schooling my child. It would have made our conversations a lot more interesting.
englishtea— Thank you for taking the time to read some of my articles, including this one. I knew beforehand that the word in question is provocative and politically incorrect. However, my dictionary still today defines it as: 1. A promiscuous female 2. A woman who has sex for money. In view of this, surely the word fits. No female who is not promiscuous would have sex on camera, would they?
I did hope that this word would shock some sense into the public. Can you imagine the girls and women of say 1960 having sex on film by the millions? Of course not. And if they had, would not have this word applied?
My point of the word is that we have defined deviancy so far down that no one will use this word to define what it has always meant, for fear of being seen as "intolerant."
I apologize that I offended you. Would you like for me to remove this word? If so I will. I appreciate your concern, which I am sure comes from your compasionate heart.
James, I've just recently read several of your articles and found them fascinating. You certainly have a talent for selecting unusal topics, however, this is not one. But people write what they want, can, and know. You don't know this subject. Most of us don't either but some of us do know human nature. I'm not a feminist but your use of this word in it's contexts screamed at me. Truely, you judged these girls/women. And your facts about half of these pornographic videos is a little misleading as well. A teenager posting this sorted material while acting out in bad behavior or possibly some sort of emotional disorder is hardly a whore. No more than a young women stripping in some strip club for a couple of weeks or months for much needed money can be labeled a "Stripper". The real pornography that is acted out by older men and women who have lost their souls and have no hope for recovery are your whores and sexual deviants. I'm not the writer you are. Clearly you are a skilled and well versed writer. But I hope you know more about human nature especially when you write about people being human.
macrobin— Welcome to the Hub Pages Community! I look forward to reading your writings. Thank you for visiting my Hub. I appreciate your comments, and you are most welcome.
I agree with you that it is a spiritual draw—and it ain't from good spirits either. :D
I am new here but I happened to see this hub and wanted to make a comment. The only thing I see that wasn't mentioned was that there is a 'spiritual draw' to internet pornography and it's like a magnet to those men and women who succumb to it's poison. Thank you for posting this and I hope many more people see it in years to come!
Wesman Todd Shaw— Yes, the demonetizing of this Hub cost me. Out of my 208 published Hubs, this one has had the 4th most traffic.
Thank you for coming by to visit. I appreciate the congrats!
I have to admit that I was grabbed by the title . . . .was looking at your page, and all of the interesting articles, and my interest in any or everything else just sort of. . . .was lost when I saw the title to this one.
I wasn't surprised to see that ads were disabled. I get pissed when that happens, but congrats for going all the way with this despite there being no advertising.
Granny's House— Yes, I hear you. My response to him was double-edged. I hope it was OK—to him and to you.
Kevin H. You must not have any daughters. Any man that did would never had made that comment
boba020682— Thank you, my brother. And you are welcome. I agree with your remarks, especially about that spawn of Satan: the ACLU. If anybody is doing the devil's work, it is they. I appreciate your excellent comments, Bob. Thanks for coming by to visit.
James
Another very well done hub James!
This is a topic we need to know about and the numbers you provided are indeed shocking. I believe it is very important that someone such as yourself has the courage to push out this information.
My very first reaction is that your statistics are "unbelievable" but I am sure you are correct. I find it incredibly sad that so many women/girls are eager to participate in this for their fifteen minutes of fame. You can be sure that somebody is making money off of this even if it isn't the actresses.
Heading off in a slightly different direction; there is little disparaging you can say about the ACLU that I do not believe anymore. They seem to have a great interest in our "right" to access to any kind of depravity. I am really at a loss to say much else about them.
Thank you again for a well done hub!
May God continue to bless you and keep you writing.
Bob
v_kahleranderson— Thank you. I agree with you that it is exactly like a plague. I appreciate your thoughtful comments. And I am grateful for your continued love and encouragement. You are quite a lady. And Bob is a blessed man to have you. :)
A very informative hub, Mr. Watkins, but I am sad at learning these numbers. I think that these kinds of perversions have always been there, it is just that now it is out in the open, and, sadly, spreading like a plague!
These girls ARE someones daughter, sister, and wife. I have two girls, so I shiver at just the thought of one of them having gone in that direction. I thank God they didn't. I was spared that pain. Praise the Lord!
So, I can only imagine how much our heavenly Father hurts to see this, since He sees all! We are all His children, after all.
Though this is a very disturbing hub to read, I am glad that you have a brave heart to write this and make many more people aware of what the world today is really like.
May our Heavenly Father continue to bless you, and may He also grant you peace, today and always :)
Sending love and hugs, in Jesus name,
VKA
Dave Sibole— Thank you very much. We may well be under judgment. Or will be if we don't change our ways. I do what I can, my friend. :)
Great Hub. Then we wonder why American is under judgement from God. DAH! It is also a blessing to know however that the internet is a great ministry tool.
Kevin Hungerford— Excellent comment. You've manage to define the offending word while at the same time disputing its application. I love it!
They're not whores, they're just enjoying sex and getting paid large sums of money for it.
Granny's House— You're welcome. Thank you for expressing your appreciation for my work here. I believe you brought your daughters up right; and now they're upright! :)
I hear what you're saying about the sexualization of younger and younger girls. Those photos that were in the press of that poor little Jon Benet Ramsey were creepy. My mom didn't allow my 5 sisters to wear makeup until they were sixteen!
Squidmom— Thank you very much for the nice acknowledgment. I appreciate your comments. For most of human history, girls were told not to have sex before marriage. Now they are told to have safe sex. This leads to the explosion in sexually transmitted disease, abortions and children born-out-of-wedlock that we have witnessed in this country over the past few decades. And the epidemic of fatherless children, of which the females will naturally be starved for male attention. It is a crying shame.
James, I am so glad someone has done a hub on this. Well done. I left a comment on another hubber's page, that I was offended that his hubs were all about pictures with women barely dressed. I said that most women do not want to be viewed as a piece of meat, something just for sex.
We have feelings too. He was not happy with me. He wrote that these women were beautiful and it was art, and that I was living in the dark ages. I don't think that was his motive when he did these hubs. We all know sex sells! I wrote back and said, well then wouldn't they be just as beautiful with their clothes on?
You would not believe how many people wrote angry comments about what I had said. Some were women too!
Another thing, people are making comments about how that can't believe how young girls dress these days. The parents buy their clothes! I have three daughters, I paid for their clothes and I picked what they would wear. I taught my daughters to have respect for their selves. They must have still looked beautiful they are all married to great guys. It makes me sick to think that any women would want to be looked at in that way.
My daughter and I went to Walmart to get a swim suite for her five year old daughter. She must have tried on ten suites and we could not find one that would cover her behind! What are these people thinking that made these suites? Well I have to stop now or I won't.
Thank you so much for being brave enough to post this hub.
Very well written hub, you truly have a gift. I know some would not like the subject of this hub, but this is a true problem that exists. I used to be a substitute teacher and I'd be shocked by the behavior of the girls in my middle school classes, middle school mind you- not high school. The notes they passed to the boys often offering to do very grown up things really saddened me. Why have so many girls gotten into thier heads that this is the only way in which they have value? I would caution stents to not use the words all that boys want from you- it makes the girls think that if they want attention from boys (and later men) these are their only options
Dchosen_01— Thanks! I don't know where this will all lead. A lot of the developments of the past ten years would have been absolutely revolting to most of the people of even 20 years ago. But you might be right: maybe live sex in public is the next logical step.
Welcome to HubPages!
Nice hub! I just wonder how morn would be in the next decade or few decades to come. I hope I will not wake up one morning to find more than 5 couples in my yard acting porn.
Laura in Denver— I believe it was the title itself that got it censored. It was up and running for nine months and was one of my few money-makers until it was demonetized a couple months ago by HubPages staff as an act of "self-policing."
ein— Such harsh words. Judge not and ye shall not be judged.
I fail to see why this article was "censured" by HubPages. Was there a particular criteria met? Or keyword?
Anyway, interesting topic with who-knows-what social implications!!
"A special thanks to my research staff for their fine work gathering information for me, a necessity since I have never seen internet pornography personally."
You are a liar, good sir.
Pollyannalana— You are so right that many men no longer desire the real woman right in front of them when they get caught up in pornography. It has broken up many marriages. There is surely much prostitution involved—girls paid to do porno for public consumption. The internet is a double-edged sword. Thank you, my dear, for your wise words. I agree with everything you said.
I think this is horrible and should be outlawed, although I am sure it will not be. I would be so insulted and humiliated if my husband were into pornography. I have watched shows dealing with this(like 20/20) and men get so messed up they don't want a real woman, not their own wife, not a flesh lover, it really is so sick, and this one couple got helped and traveled lecturing on their own experience quite awhile but in the end it still did not work out even for them. He could not be cured. I know women are into many things one would have never thought in the past but I think most women that would be into this would be for the profit and not harmed physically as it does men.(I doubt seriously hardly any of the women are into it for sexual gratification making men that much more the fool!) It is surely prostitution and it was one of the most shocking things to me years ago first having a PC, and gaining knowledge, but it is no problem to me now knowing where not to go and titles in emails don't leave much to imagine to not open and I would say 99% go to spam. They have people on here after pedophiles after children and I think all these girls with their cameras after men no matter what their age should also be caught and punished. It really is a sickening problem all around and probably ways I would never even imagine. Everything beautiful God has given us satan has tried and often destroys with his own vile version. These women certainly ARE whores no matter their age or purpose.
myownworld— Yes, a lot has been said here. :-)
I don't know if I have the magic touch or not. But I do appreciate your warm words. Thank you.
So much has been said here already, that there's nothing more I can add. So I'll just say that I absolutely loved this hub...and its how I originally found you. Brilliant work! :)
p.s. you must have some magic touch that they allowed ads on yours; lol...mine was refused.
Loves To Read— You said so many poignant things here that I cannot add to it or take away from it. Thank you so much for sharing your utter wisdom with us here. Wow!
I will make one small comment. There was an unfortunate side effect of putting all the women in the workforce. It doubled the size of available workers, creating more supply of workers than demand, depressing real earnings for each worker (which is natural). This is why it now takes two incomes to run a household and the tens of millions of kids not only have no supervision—how do they feel inside that no one cares enough about them to spend the majority of their time with them?
In my teen years i had never even heard the word pornography. Where does the blame really lye. The Bible tells us that if we bring the children up in the ways of the Lord they will never stray far. I was a young teen in the sixty's when the hippy movement was rife. My children were teens in the late 80's and 90's. My children knew more then than i did because a number of their friends had been raised by pot smoking hippies engaging in free love.
I am not judging these people but how can you teach children right from wrong when their parents are talking and acting in an irresponsible manner. Each generation has become increasingly worse and all rights to discipline have been removed. Spare the rod and spoil the child. In today's society, more often than not both parents have to work to live comfortably. Sadly this also means that kids have a free reign of the house, phone, internet, street or anywhere else they want to go.
I have been shocked more than once to see 11 and 12 year old girls with next to nothing on, makeup and hair done on the streets. These girls look far older than they really are. I personally think that they are in over their heads way before they even know what is happening to them. As you stated it may be the minute of fame they are after.
Sadly i see them with their mothers who are dressed just the same.
Harlan Colt— Thank you! Prayers are surely needed, Harlan. Mercy, too. I appreciate the visit.
James
Great hub James, I had no idea.
Something else to pray about I guess.
God have mercy on this world.
- Harlan
SilverGenes— Yes, you are right. I'm not in favor of banning it. I think a change in hearts is all that would work. I agree with you that a lot of this is merely stupidity and exhibitionism. The internet is forever, so they say. Thank you for for wise thoughts. I appreciate the visit. Welcome to HubPages.
Pornography has always been here and always will be. If you are personally outraged, don't look at it. When you legislate, it gets worse because it's more exciting. Let's get biblical for a minute - there's a reason it's written that for a man to have sex with his drunken father is wrong. Clearly, this was a big enough problem 2,000 years ago to make a rule. Nothing has changed because you can't change human nature. Perhaps these girls are simply getting a sexual kick out of exhibitionism and it has nothing to do with love or lack thereof... or it's just stupidity. It's amazing how many people don't realize that what is posted out here lives forever. just a thought.
magnoliazz— I believe you have nailed the origin of the problem. No doubt it is exacerbated by the lack of father/daughter relationships in America today. Many girls long to be loved by a man. If not their father—some other man, or boy. To some it seems the best way to be loved is to be easy—or worse, to allow yourself to be exploited for a million strangers to masterbate over your image.
That said, I'm not sure we can ban porn from the internet. But we should override the ACLU, which demands children have the right to view it and be in it. Talk about demonic! I'm sure the ACLU is the headquarters of the devil.
Thanks very much for visiting and leaving your wise words.
Gigi2— Love the name, BTW. Brings back fond memories for me. But I won't go there. :D
Thank you for your compliments and comments. I can't disagree with you. Welcome to HubPages!
Maybe these girls are acting like this because their first sexual experience is watching porn on the internet! That becomes the norm for them. No child should be introduced to the souless, loveless sex seen on the internet...and indeed, this disgusting behavior could be the result.
WOW! I didn't know about this! It makes me ill, it really does. WHAT is happening to this country?
I think it started with all the free sex of the 60s...and this is the outcome.
In my day, if you did not "put out" you were considered unpopular. However, WHO would want to be popular with the idiot guys who were saying these kind of things?
Now I am sure that if a girl wants to be popular she will have to appear on the internet sex sites, and I am wondering what kind of girl would be stupid enough to do this? I am assuming that she has no mind of her own, no self confidence, no moral compass. I suspect that her parents or grandparents were into the free love of the 60s, that sex, any kind of sex with anyone is OK.
I suspect that there are "sins of the fathers" here, and maybe something to do with the demonic besides!
I just wonder what kind of wives and mothers these girls will one day be? Surely, no decent man is really going to want them! They are throwing away their youth and beauty and a chance at a decent marriage for being an internet whore?
I think the time has come to totally BAN all porn off the internet. It has no place here, because more and more the internet is used for WORK. We don't need this sick disgusting stuff on the internet, what's next?
I believe these females are whores...promiscuous women. Blaming men for their actions is no longer an option, they choose their route in life. Many assume promiscuous action to be financially led, no longer true, sadly there are those that are led by purely egotistical motives. Great hub, if only more could bring this subject to the fore and try to see the vulnerable as very distinct from those who upload there own s***
screaming frog— OK. Thank you for the correction. :)
dictionary means nothing, the dictionary is full of words, while your article is very insightful and speaks to me the word 'whore' does not as i is demeaning. the word you are looking for is vulnerable
I am sorry that you are offended by my article. The word "whore" is in the dictionary. Mine says, "A female who is promiscuous" or "A female who has sex for money." If that doesn't fit, I don't know what does.
wow, i found your article really offensive. these women are not whores, i find that term very demeaning, and if you want to know why these women do it its because most of them are very young and confused and struggling for money. The fact that alot of society condones it also does not help. These are mis-guided women that have simply lost their way. Lets take a look at the fact that men are the main supporters and encourage women to be viewed in this way.
Cheeky Girl--- That is a very interesting story. Over here, I can remember when the places where men worked were plastered with girly pictures. Those days are long gone. But there's always the internet.
Thank you for a fine post. I enjoyed reading your words. And I appreciate the compliment, too. Always. :-)
Hy James, this is an interesting hub going you have here. Astra Nomik raised some interesting points here about technology. Here's a curious discovery. I was in a library today and I could not access Hub Pages from my laptop. The librarian said it must be on a censored or banned list. I was surprised. I can access any person's hub from any other pc. She had never heard of Hub Pages. I consider that to be a bit too much censorship for my liking. At least I could check my email. (In UK) So apparently some censorship is happening already here.
In what is a true life story meanwhile somewhere over in Ireland, according to a very interesting (online) newspaper article, a mechanic somewhere in Ireland who ran a small car repair business was ordered by visiting govt inspectors to remove a picture of a naked or topless female that was on the wall of his work area. The sole trader in question pointed out that as boss and sole worker in what was his own business and in an area where the public had no access whatsoever, he argued successfully that the picture wasn't offending anyone. When asked did it offend him, he said - "I put the thing up there meself!" It did not go into whether it offended the inspector who visited the premises, but a court agreed with the mechanic, and so are allowing him to keep his lady picture collection in a non-public part of his business.
A very curious and interesting true story. I'm sure it somehow ties in to what is being said here, but would be interested in people's comments on it. Or whatever. Either way, James - excellent Hub!
Astra Nomik--- Thank you for taking the time to read my article. You also read all 238 comments!? Wow! Between all who participated many topics are covered, as you say.
There have been laws proposed to block internet porn, particularly in public libraries and public schools. These proposed laws have been defeated by Social Liberals, who argued that people have a "right" to view whatever they want--even children. Such filters do exist and many people have them in their homes. Changing hearts and minds is the long term solution.
I appreciate your concerns and I share them. Tell CG I said "hello." And you are welcome. :-)
This hub and the comments here took me over an hour to read through. Talk about informative! There are a great many views contained here in this. I think that anyone who wants to write a hub on James' original topic will be lucky to find a better source of engaging debates and opinions and material than what is in here. It is an amazing hub. Censorship, freedom, religion, sex, youth, women, male and female whores, the law. This hub has it all, and more.
But you neglected technology, James. Why can't people or companies invent a technology to prevent people looking at child porn. Surely computers, being so advanced - can come up with an App or application which blocks the material. Our cameras can recognise our smiling faces now, why can't the technology firms and Internet servers simply band together and develop a technology that restricts or prevents porn? Or blacklists it? What is stopping this from happening? Or is there just too much profit in porn? I don't know. We can put a man on the moon but we can't take a child off the internet? Why?
But then we should not look. So I guess we have to change the people and make them not look, as well as changing the technology. How do you make a person not look at child porn? I know it's simplistic. What proven system has been invented that manages this? My friend Cheeky Girl (here in the background drinking coffee!) uses the term "Joined-up Thinking" a lot, that confuses me sometimes. But I sense that some kind of joined up thinking could be applied and a prevention be developed.
I don't know what the anti-censorship people would think of this, but children are being exploited, so we have to do something. We were all kids once. Adults have some control of their lives, of their choices, but not all kids. And they suffer more...
On mobile phones - a father of a friend of mine objected to a mobile phone provider and asked the network to remove all traces of the offending image. Guess what. It can be done. And even if the image is altered or changed there are ways of tracking it and the changed versions tracked and taken down too.
Images could go through a holding area on a network where they are checked and okay'd before continuance. Any image not approved would not get to its destination. Some day, someone will invent this and charge for it and everyone will use it, then laws will change and all users will have to use it. My money is on Google personally.
And we haven't heard all the views here yet.
But thank you for a stimulating hub and subject with many different opinions. Some people may not agree with all of them, but your hub has most of the best ones anyway.
Astra (with thx to CG for opinion & coffee)!
Kenny MG--- Thank you very much. I don't know the answer to your first question and your second one causes me great consternation. The image of sex has surely been tarnished. It may take a generation or two to right the ship. I appreciate this visit and your wise comments.
James great educational hub, wonder if the power bockers are taking notice? The future doesn't look good for the American teenagers, does it? Even from ten years, their image of sex would have been tarnished in eight years time, and what about their generation?
stars439--- Thank you for reading my works. You are the good man here. God Bless You, your wife, and your daughter. You are a blessing to me.
James: I read the hub again and I missed some things. Your a brave and clean hearted decent man, and you are and angel to children by speaking against child pornography. God Bless You.
JOE BARNETT--- Thank you, Joe. I didn't review the videos personally, no. I had my staff do that for me. :-)
I'm sure it was a tough assignment. Thank you for coming.
HEY MAN THIS WAS A GOOD ARTICLE.THEY DID USED TO ALWAYS SAY THAT IT WAS ABUSED WOMEN OR SOMETHING(OOPS CAPS)like that. guess that was the right trying to persuade.i know you didn't review all those videos for this piece did you . i know it's tough but somebody had to do it,huh? see ya!
Royal Diadem--- Thank you very much for your kind compliments. Your second sentence is disturbing. What a twisted system of values we have now in America. I appreciate your insightful comments.
James you have hit the hammer on the nail, people want to be famous, reality sex video. I have even heard of little girls who do not want to be doctors, or lawyers when they grow up, they want to be strippers and prostitutes and go to college too. Great Hub, Oh yeah women are coming out of the closet too, didn’t you know, we have sexually problems just like men.
Creaminizer23— Yes, Isn't it though? I'm glad you like it. Thank you for saying so and welcome to HubPages!
Very visually stimulating hub. I like it!
madtown_jeremy— Thank you very much for providing this fascinating addendum to my Hub! This is great stuff. You are a learned man and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us here.
Thanks!
...and yeah, War brought us better outdoor gear, new ideas in automotive engineering, stronger buildings and roads...if you can imagine it being useful in a war, chances are it was originally created to be in one.
And porn...yikes! Since Porn has been the number 1 money maker on the net since the beginning, the push for any sort of new tech on the net has largely been in response to the demand. Broadband internet in the home is a perfect example. I sure hope people don't think we got that because we shop so much at Amazon! ;) Faster computers, faster networks, faster software and operating systems, billions spent annually on internet ease-of-use cases, etc. etc. All driven by the pot of gold that is e-commerce. And the majority of e-commerce dollars are collected via internet smut. :)
It's a very interesting topic and reached farther than most of us even imagine.
madtown_jeremy— That is a very interesting observation and one I hadn't thought of. Well, I knew about war. The Civil War greatly enhanced our technology of prosthetics; Viet Nam brought us the helicopter ambulance for car crashes; etc.
Your profile is interesting and being a native Michigander I am partial to midwesterners so I decided to keep up with what you're writing. I am pleased you came over to check out my work and I look forward to further conversations in the future. Welcome to HubPages!
A film history professor and I used to discuss the myriad ways that all technology was driven by either Porn or War. If you really think about it, all consumer tech starts at one of those industries. Crazy.
Thanks for becoming a follower, James. Your hubs are quite interesting (never knew I'd learn so much about the women of Fox News) and so I've added you as well. Cheers!
terced ojos— Welcome to HubPages!
You are right. It is not surprising. Yes, porno is the top seller, alright. Tsunami? Great word to describe it. Thank you for reading my Hub and leaving your comments.
It's not surprising. Did you also know that pornography out sells all entertainment venues combined? All music, movie and entertainment venues. Porn revenue literally comprises a tsunami/super tidal wave of money compared to all entertainment venues.
netsight— I'm glad you made it and welcome to HubPages. Thank you for this visitation and the compliment.
Levertis Steele Level 6 Commenter 5 days ago
"89% of all internet pornography is produced in the United States." This is scary! The USA is the desire of nations! This thought is drawing my mind toward some Biblical prophecy, but I am afraid to explore at the moment.
". . . this brings me to the point of this Hub. Who are these whores and why do they do it? Every one is some man's daughter; maybe somebody's sister; somebody's grandchild; and sometimes somebody's mother." So true, but every man who mounts a whore is someone's dad, son, brother, husband, grandson, cousin, friend--all, or a combination. The videographers hid the men's faces for the same age-old reason: the woman is a whore and the man is just being a man.
When Mary Magdalene was dragged before Jesus, probably as she was caught--naked, no man was dragged with her. If Jesus had not saved her, she, alone, would have been stoned for being caught in the very act. Where was the man? Where were the others who had mounted her? Their faces were hidden. Why did the crowd of men flee? They thought that Jesus was writing their names in the dust. Apparently, they had "been there and done that." My point is when the men, who are suppose to be the leaders, straighten up, maybe the women will follow.
I recently read somewhere of a story about a married man who was on the prowl. He had children. He was in a hotel room waiting for a prostitute to come to his call. When he opened the door, he fainted as his daughter stood there in shock. When he got up, they exchanged accusative exclamations. She threatened to tell her mom, his wife. He threatened to tell her mother about her whoredom. Both wanted the other to be righteous. Both had something to tell. Both were guilty. This leads to my point: How in the world can fathers raise their daughters right and get their respect when a great majority of them are out whoring with everything that wears panties and a few boxers, too? It will take more than fathers in the homes to heal this monster. It will take righteous fathers! When a whorish man is on the prowl, the demon of cheating will visit his home.
My dad and mom raised seven children and remained married and together, along with us children, until he died. When I discovered earlier that he was a creeper, I was disappointed and did not understand why he did it since he often demonstrated much love for Mom. I loved him dearly, but I always secretly sided with mom when she had a problem with him, no matter the nature of it. I trusted and believed in her more.
So, being there with children is the first step to being a father. If the rest is not added, his presence is as effective as the tenant next door.
There is a certain pornographic queen in the world of the elite who has gotten a lot of attention lately. She was raised by a well-known father, but it did not stop her from making those pornographic videos. Fathers can raise their daughters almost perectly, but many girls secretly do whatever they want to do. Peer pressure can be a demon.
I must agree that fathers in the home, especially the ones with morals, will stop some of the problems, but it will never be solved until the leaders that God appointed wash their dirty laundry and step up to their responsibility.
Fathers are not to get all of the blame for the girls waywardness. Many mothers preceeded their daughters in whorish behavior. When a daughter sees her mom sleeping with men who are not her husbands, or their father, what is a girl to think? A single mom can raise girls to be moralistic if she is herself. She has to pray hard, but it is possible.