{"id":71,"date":"2015-02-19T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-02-19T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:53:33","slug":"jihadists-50-shades-of-grey-and-violent-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2015\/02\/jihadists-50-shades-of-grey-and-violent-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"Jihadists, 50 Shades of Grey, and Violent Pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonSmith85\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow @BrandonSmith85<\/a><br>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/531\/2015\/02\/jihad.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/531\/2015\/02\/jihad-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"jihad\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\"><\/a>The <em>New York Post <\/em>ran <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/02\/17\/why-are-jihadis-so-obsessed-with-porn\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a fascinating article<\/a> this week on the amount of violent and pedophilic pornography found in the possession of prominent terrorists over the years. Here\u2019s a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Porn is a global phenomenon, produced and consumed everywhere and increasingly by people of all ages \u2014 deforming the sexual development of young viewers. Watching it desensitizes the viewer to sexual aggression and strengthens existing beliefs that support violence toward women.<\/p>\n<p>It is routinely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2015\/02\/women-want-real-love-not-50-shades-of-counterfeit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">very violent<\/a>: 82 percent of the top-rated porn scenes involve physical aggression (slapping, spanking, gagging); 49 percent contain verbal aggression (name calling, insults). The perps are male, 94 percent of the targets are female.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine pornography\u2019s empowering effect upon would-be jihadists, who may unable to afford the price of a wife or a prostitute, who are young, without normal sexual outlets and already predisposed to violence towards women \u2014 and to pedophilia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me say clearly, as the article more or less does, that this isn\u2019t merely a Muslim problem. Though this article draws some interesting parallels between jihadists and porn, no doubt, it stumbles upon a broader issue: the way in which porn leads to the degradation of women. While I wouldn\u2019t say that any sort of porn is \u201cnormal,\u201d\u00a0 porn is often more than two actors having consensual, \u201croutine\u201d sex \u2014 it\u2019s men dominating women (and sometimes vice versa), quite clearly treating them as inferior, worthless, animal-like creatures.<\/p>\n<p>As a person who was steeped deeply in porn consumption growing up, it\u2019s been difficult for me shake the way porn has affected my marriage and my general views on sex. <a href=\"http:\/\/cbmw.org\/men\/leadership\/porn-and-future-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">As I wrote last year<\/a>, men want to recreate what happens in porn scenes in their own bedrooms with their wives (or, in the case of some, with prostitutes and sex slaves). This leads to unfair expectations on women, and worse, leads to women being treated as soulless pleasure-bots.<\/p>\n<p>And this is why the cultural acceptance of works like <em>50 Shades of Grey <\/em>should terrify us. If your wife wants to mimic themes of the movie in privacy of your home, that\u2019s another conversation for another day (and one that would worry me, too). But the truth is, <em>50 Shades<\/em>\u00a0 seeks to normalize the very thing that leads to sex trafficking, sex slavery, and even discontent marriages (\u201cwhy can\u2019t you be more like so-and-so?\u201d). The ripples are endless.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian outcry over <em>50 Shades<\/em><del><\/del> has been borderline over-the-top. Everyone has an opinion about it. But why shouldn\u2019t we make every attempt to sound the horn? The gospel is so far-reaching, so universe-jolting, that there are countless \u201chills to die on,\u201d and we should all take a hill or two. This isn\u2019t a bad one to climb.<\/p>\n<p>The subjection of women, in Muslim cultures and in numerous other cultures like our own, must be battled. Men, the world\u2019s experts at demeaning and abusing women, must be on the front lines.<\/p>\n<p>A starting place? Treat pornography like the abhorrent abomination that it is.<\/p>\n<p>Women, the world\u2019s most abused image-bearers, must be defended. And they must fight back.<\/p>\n<p>A starting place? 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