Comments about ‘Airplane arrest prompts questions about risks some take with pornography’

The fact that this University of Utah professor is still in a Boston jail suggests that authorities found something on his computer hard drive to justify his continued incarceration. If it goes to trial the jury will send him away for a long time.

"We tend to want to talk about people with any kind of pornography problem or issue with hypersexual behavior as being all alike," he said. "The number one thing to stipulate is that there are different profiles for people that struggle with these issues."

Exactly, this guy was looking at illegal under-age porn. Which is DIFFERENT from the legal variety, which is protected by the first amendment.

Seriously, how low will the DesNews go to compare people who view regular porn (which is about 99.99% of all U.S. men between 18-45) to a guy who had underage porn on an airplane.

What about the people that deal in this stuff?
I would like to see the people who filmed it and put it on the internet or sold it also go to jail.

Too often we only hear stories of the end user. Let's catch the dealers and suppliers too.

I really wish that the officials who enforce the laws against child pornography had more power to go after the fringe elements of entertainment that promote teenage sexuality, portraying it as mainstream and cool with no consequences.

It's sad when this happens. It appears like the professor has a real problem with child pornography. Whether he is found innocent or guilty in court will not change the fact that his life circumstance is going down the tube. I doubt that he will ever be able to forgive himself for what he has done. I hope he gets the help he needs. I wouldn't want to hear that he took his own life.

Uh, actually, not all teenagers are illegal in that. Remember, 18 and 19 are legal, but they're still teenagers.

Finally, exposure to pornography is becoming accepted in society as potentially being seriously "addictive". There are examples of people who became addicted within just 20 minutes of their first exposure to pornography. That's frightening! I also read statistics that said nearly 100% of boys and about 85% of girls, by the time they are in their mid-teens, have already viewed pornography on the internet (whether by choice or by accident). We must realize the destructive power that pornography has; that it is "poison" to the soul. From a practical perspective, with the known history of destruction it has brought to individuals and families, there should be no doubt in anyones mind and there is absolutely no justification, for even a casual acceptance of the practice. From a spiritual perspective, weve read that the natural man is an enemy to God and has been from the beginning that we must put off the natural man, and become a saint. Pornography is a fraud and is a counterfeit to the great Plan of Salvation. It will bind its victims in chains, and make him/her captive to the will of the adversary.

This isn't an attraction to children.

Child pornography is an attraction to victims. These veiwers are looking for, and at, victims.

This is what makes child pornography dangerous.

@Mukkake

99.99% of U.S. men between ages 18-45 view porn? Where did you get that statistic?

Did you know that 78.2% of all statistics are made up?

The citizens of this country need to decide that child porn is a horrendous crime and deserves an extremely long prison sentence. The men in this country who make the laws need to stop protecting the child porn industry and start making laws that will make it a CERTAINTY that a prison term will be served. No plea bargaining down to avoid labelling. This is a disgusting crime and until we decide that it deserves prison time men are going to continue to participate in the child porn industry.

If you offend the little ones, it is better that a millstone be hung around your neck and you are drowned in the depths of the sea.

Those are strong words from someone who forgave the adultress and whom we call the Prince of Peace.

It also suggests there might be a special place prepared for those who harm little children.

There was a question about whether he was intoxicated and that may have made it so he watched child pornography. I bet he wasn't intoxicated when he downloaded it on his laptop. The professor can put blame on everyone else but himself. The passenger that turned him was "snoopy" and the passenger should have been minding his own business. Was this trip the professor on an authorized university business trip that the tax payers were paying? What happens in Boston stays in Boston? Someone stole his computer and put that on his computer? Is the laptop University property? People don't think that their actions will land them in trouble, even in first class.

It is amazing how some intellectuals will justify why people do things and put the blame on someone else. Educated people have the ability to know right from wrong and abuse is definitely wrong. Pornography is more than insidious.

I'm sure his lawyers will immediately put him in rehab to try to get everyone to feel sorry for him.

I think it's disturbing that airlines even allow "regular" pornography to be viewed during flights. The person sitting next to you or behind you may not want to see it. And what if you're in view of a child? I've seen recent news reports that some airlines are even starting to provide it!

First of all, we can all relax, knowing that we don't need any Court system, you've all found him guilty, let's just get to the hanging.

Second, the likelyhood is that the guy was looking at pictures of his kids or grandkids in a bathtub, or at the beach while they were (Shudder) Naked!

According to THE LAW, a picture of Gainesborough's "Blue Boy" is kiddie porn if the sender "Intended" it to be "Sexual in nature" (You know, the judge reads the guys mind and decides that the guy looked at the picture and saw a (Shudder) naked boy.)

Ya'all remember the families that had their children removed by CPS and themselves thrown into jail because Wallmart decided those pictures in the bathtub were "Child porn"?

Did you know there's a 6 year old boy up on felony charges of Child Sexual Abuse because he played Doctor with a 5 year old girl?

BEFORE we roast this dude on the Cross, let's see what those "Child Porn" pictures were REALLY about, then we light the fire, OK?

This is article is full of guesses and not much information. What a waste. It would be much better to read the related article:
Link between child porn and sex abuse 'frightening and powerful'

This doesn't surprise me. The required reading in some of the U of U classes is horrific. Any professor that requires students to read some of the stuff I was exposed to has no moral compass. One of the classes I took I had to drop. No way was I going to warp my mind with the stuff that professor was teaching.

I know of someone who lost his job because he was viewing porn--regular porn--at work.
Viewing pornography is not just some harmless pastime. It used to be people had to go somewhere to purchase/rent pornographic
material. Now everyone can access it within their own home. My guess is that the frequency and level has increased. People who previously would never have viewed it before are now regular purveyors. Some who were previously regular purveyors perhaps degenerated into viewing child porn.

Any man who is a husband, or a father--particularly of young women--who view porn have low ethical and moral standards-at least in this area.
Women are way too silent on this issue.

bILL mEDVEWCKY | 9:51 a.m. Nov. 29, 2011
@ bill, some of us get our news from real news sources. You might want to do a little checking with other news sources. Info is already out in the news about what kind of PORN the police found on this man's computer.

Mukkake:

what is legal and what is moral are (with ever increasing frequency in the US) not always the same.

For example, because some pornography may be legal does not mean that it isn't degrading to the persons (especially the women) who participated in creating it. Is it ethical to demean, cheapen, debase women in this way?

Also, whether legal or otherwise, porn detrimentally affects relationships with others of persons involved in viewing it. Your made up statistic (99.99%) is no doubt a means to justify your own use and exculpate you of any guilt in how your use affects others.