HIgh School Porn Parties...

I didn't believe it either--except that Dreher is a journalist. He doesn't make stuff up.

Recently I had dinner with a friend who teaches in a private (secular) high school. He mentioned at one point how much he worried about his students, who were heavily into watching pornography. Notice the placement of the comma in that sentence. Porn is so ubiquitous and normalized among the (well-off) kids in his school that it's considered the usual thing to partake of it. My friend went on to say that the situation was the same at the well-known (and relatively conservative) Christian university he'd attended. Among the male students, he said, "The question really wasn't, 'Do you use porn?' but rather 'Do you feel guilty about the porn you use?'"

He said he worked in a counselor's role there as well, and routinely dealt with students who were seriously messed up by their porn habits. For example, he said, he believed that many of the guys he worked with had no idea how to relate to women in a healthy way; the power of pornography, working consciously and subconsciously, caused the men to have badly distorted views of women, views that stunted and even paralyzed the men emotionally

Well. That's just wonderful.

The article also includes a quotation from an interview of Ted Bundy on the topic. Yes, THAT Ted Bundy.