{"id":3471,"date":"2010-04-05T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:16:39","slug":"stripping-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/04\/05\/stripping-our-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Stripping our humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by The Advocate <\/a>today about a strip club operating in North West Tasmania.\u00a0 It is near the Anglican Church, “Any comment, Bishop?’<\/p>\n

I replied along the following lines:\u00a0<\/p>\n

This type of activity debases our humanity\u00a0wherever it\u00a0occurs. The fact that it is occurring near community centres including schools, shops and a church adds to the destructive influence on our young.\u00a0The commercialization and exploitation of human sexuality destroys relationships. It devalues both the women involved and the men, who are usually plied with alcohol, watching the\u00a0artificial spectacle. We all need to learn how to build and nurture healthy relationships. Relationships are at the centre of who we are. Our social cohesion depends on healthy relationships.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As if to prove that this is not just occurring on our island\u00a0<\/p>\n

over 30 of Australia’s leading child experts have called for an unprecedented ban on the sale of adult magazines such as Playboy<\/em> and Penthouse<\/em> and other ”soft porn” material from newsagents, milk bars, convenience stores, supermarkets and petrol stations. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Author Maggie Hamilton has interviewed more than 70 boys, parents and teachers for her book What’s Happening to our Boys?<\/em>, a companion book to one she did about how girls are affected by sexualised imagery<\/span>.<\/p>\n

”What I found so upsetting about the boys I interviewed was the desensitisation around sex and violence<\/span> \u2026 and it was kids right across the board,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put soft porn out of view: experts<\/a> for the full report including the names of the people who have signed the protest, including the author of\u00a0 Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls<\/a>\u00a0(reviewed by Kate Boughton). See also\u00a0 Hypersexualisation: dolls dollars dissent?<\/a>\u00a0and Wired for Intimacy (Review)<\/a> by Will Briggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by The Advocate today about a strip club operating in North West Tasmania.\u00a0 It is near the Anglican Church, “Any comment, Bishop?’ I replied along the following lines:\u00a0 This type of activity debases our humanity\u00a0wherever it\u00a0occurs. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}