Salvo 9: Silent Bondage - Summer 2009

Salvo 9 is now at the printer and is scheduled to mail on June 23. This is our third issue with the new format: Sex, Science, Society. Our summer issue is packed with articles that are sure to get your attention.

The cover features the SEX section with a focus on the pernicious effects of pornography, especially on children. As Marcia Segelstein writes in Blindsided Kids:

One danger is that young people who are exposed to pornographic images at a formative stage of their growth as sexual beings will often come to see sexuality as completely disconnected from relationships, and certainly from any spiritual context. Another is that they will learn to objectify human beings, and to see others in a context devoid of feelings, personalities, and needs.

In Dr. Manning’s experience, many teenagers initially turn to pornography for sexual information. They hear a word or a term they’re too embarrassed to ask about, so they go online to find out what it means. But doing so can lead them into a world of outrageously graphic and often perverse demonstrations of sexual behavior, for which they have no frame of reference. Seeking information, they end up with misinformation, because, as Dr. Manning put it, “there are so many lies inherent in pornographic material about bodies, about relationships, about gender, about sexual response. It’s all one big fat lie.”

Dr. Judith Reisman follows up with her article The Meddle of Dishonor: Why Isn’t Congress Hysterical About Adult Porn and Kids?. She relates the story of her involvement with a task force whose goal was to research and correlate all pornography data with violent crime. The findings were shockingly predictable. As was the opposition she received from the many organizations who profit from porn.

From July 11–15, 1983, our 23-member task force, which included heads of state police, medical examiners, and academics, as well as Roger Depue (chief of the FBI’s Behavior Science Department) and his world-famous serial murder trackers, met at the Sam Houston State University Criminal Justice Center in Huntsville, Texas. Our coalition would bring the full weight of the US criminal justice system in support of investigation into sexology and mainstream pornography.

She goes on:

These high-powered law-­enforcement veterans recognized mainstream pornography and sexology as primary causal agents in sex crimes. Indeed, directly after the briefing, the FBI Academy store discontinued its sales of Playboy and Penthouse.

But congressional forces killed our original task force, and then convened three hearings to discredit any further data on the harms of mainstream pornography. Why? In 1990, during legal discovery, I found out that the Kinsey Institute and Playboy were both directly involved in arranging congressional and media attacks on my research.

Also on topic are articles from Salvo editors and contributors:

Les Sillars critiques the book Guyland by way of a mock advice column from one guy (think "fratboy") to another.

Bobby Maddex breaks down the word LOVE and describes what has been meant by the word throughout human history.

Terrell Clemmons has SIECUS (The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States) in the crosshairs and also explains how you can get from Margaret Sanger to the video game "Rapelay" in two easy steps.

And all of this is only the SEX section of the magazine. We could have just as easily have featured the SCIENCE or SOCIETY sections! This is a 64 page magazine with only five or six pages set aside for ads (most of which are our new mock ads anyways). There's a lot here. See for yourself, the table of contents is now posted at www.salvomag.com, and I'll be making articles available from the issue online sometime next week.

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Comments

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I'm interested how Rapelay will be tackled in that magazine. My POV for that game is that, sick people created it. I'd rather be addicted to WoW than ever touch that game.