{"id":2185,"date":"2007-01-15T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/15\/pornography-the-real-perversion\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T14:17:11","slug":"pornography-the-real-perversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/pornography-the-real-perversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornography &#8212; The Real Perversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/DineshD\u2019Souza\/2007\/01\/14\/pornography_--_the_real_perversion\">Townhall.com<\/a> Dinesh D\u2019Souza January 14, 2007  <\/p>\n<p>On a recent trip to Istanbul I encountered a group of Muslim students who insisted that American culture was morally perverse. They called it \u201cpornographic.\u201d And they charged that this culture is now being imposed on the rest of the world. I protested that pornography is a universal vice. \u201cYes,\u201d one of the students replied, \u201cbut nowhere else is pornography in the mainstream of the culture. Nowhere else is porn considered so cool and fashionable. Pornography in America represents an inversion of values.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I returned home to the United States, I wondered: are these students right? I don\u2019t think American culture as a whole is guilty of the charge of moral depravity. But there is a segment of our culture that is perverse and pornographic, and perhaps this part of American culture is the one that foreigners see. Wrongly, they identify one face of America with the whole of America. When they protest what they see as the glamorization of pornography and vice, however, it\u2019s hard to deny that they have a point. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/DineshD\u2019Souza\/2007\/01\/14\/pornography_--_the_real_perversion\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com Dinesh D\u2019Souza January 14, 2007 On a recent trip to Istanbul I encountered a group of Muslim students who insisted that American culture was morally perverse. They called it \u201cpornographic.\u201d And they charged that this culture is now being imposed on the rest of the world. I protested that pornography is a universal vice. &#8230; <a title=\"Pornography &#8212; The Real Perversion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/pornography-the-real-perversion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pornography &#8212; The Real Perversion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}