Judith Reisman Article: Hefner's Bunny on a Trojan Horse

Hefner's bunny on a Trojan horse
November 10, 2007
By Judith Reisman
© 2007
http://drjudithreisman.com/

Can important lessons still be learned from history and cherished Greek mythology? In 1184 B.C., Sinon, a Greek spy, tricked the Trojan leaders into bringing Ulysses' wooden horse into their walled city. The destruction of Troy, and the enslavement of her women and children, is now legend.

But how could the lesson of Troy's costly naiveté apply to our own times?

Cast your memory back to 1948 when Alfred Kinsey's Trojan horse of "sexual liberation" and his fraudulent "sexual education" harangued our tolerant, Judeo-Christian walled city. Our rates of STDs, family breakdowns and sexual crimes against women and children reflected those restraining religious beliefs and laws.

By 1953, Hugh Hefner, Kinsey's "pamphleteer" smashed through our city walls with his Playboy bunny, and the "sexual revolution" had begun. Elite professors swiftly took up the new values, recruiting students to the sex and drug revolution. Hefner's smiling Playboy bunny, the modern sexual Trojan horse, would torch our civil society – "no fault" divorce and skyrocketing sexual crime and disease were on the way.

See the Kinsey/Hefner fallout in the daily child abuse arrests of influential college educated leaders, legislators, doctors, lawyers, military and Justice Department officials, teachers, clergy, professors and the like.
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Mainstreaming "adult" pornography inevitably created a lust among perhaps millions who now seek their endogenous opioid thrills in child pornography and abuse.
What follows are a few current reports from my "VIP Child Abusers" file. These are men (and increasingly women and children, despite the lack of VIP women in this recent list) who risked their professions, reputations, families, finances, everything to attain that state of fear, shame and lust the predator experiences as sexual arousal to children.

Thus does the child predator transition from high arousal euphoria to depression and dysphoria, endangering more and more children.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Nov. 6 arrest of Robert Singer, the chief operating officer of the National Children's Museum, charged with deliberately distributing child pornography to a child.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Nov. 6 arrest of Irving Mittleman, a University of New Haven professor charged with flying to Detroit to have sex with two children.
See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 31 arrest of Barry Mentser, former staff attorney for Franklin County Children's Services, Ohio, for "importuning and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor."

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 30 arrest of University of Hawaii professor Marc P.C. Fossorier for arranging sex with a 15-year-old girl.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 26 arrest of John Eric Gilliam, a ,

Seminole, Texas, paramedic for possession and transportation of hundreds of child pornography images.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 26 arrest of Troy, Ohio, pediatrician Robert Reinhold for "1,700 images … [many] depicted minors engaging in lascivious displays or engaging in acts of sexual activity."

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 27 arrest of Victoria County Texas, Sheriff Mike Ratcliff for aggravated sexual assault and criminal solicitation of a minor with a handgun.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 25 arrest of John P. Duffy, a "well-known local sports announcer and former weekend news anchor for ESPN Radio 1250" in Pittsburgh, Pa., for child pornography.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the Oct. 3 arrest in Fayetteville, Ark., of Michael V. Fortino a nationally televised motivational speaker, for transporting child pornography across state lines.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse during the notorious (now almost forgotten) Sept. 17 arrest of federal prosecutor John David R. Atchison, a U.S. Justice Department, official for soliciting sex with a 5-year-old girl. He allegedly said the child would be unharmed. "Just gotta go slow and very easy. I've done it plenty." Atchison was a member of the Florida Bar Association since 1984 and president of a youth athletic organization.

See the "sexual liberation" Trojan horse when reading on Sept. 14 of the arrest of Louis J. Stroschien Jr., listed as the principal of the Shelby County Catholic School in Harlan, Iowa, for enticement of a minor for sex.

The "sexual liberation" epidemic is of course reflected in violence to women as well, as on Nov. 10 when the military reported an increase in sexual assaults from 1,700 in 2004 to 2,947 in 2006. Here, the Bunny Trojan horse trots through the recent Pentagon decision to sell pornography on military bases in violation of the 1996 "Military Honor and Decency Act."

Meanwhile, an Associated Press study released Oct. 22, found over 2,500 educators in over five years punished for sexual abuse with many more such crimes unreported. The AP report cited a 2004 congressional report that concluded 4.5 million out of 50 million students in American public schools "are subject to sexual misconduct by an employee of a school sometime between kindergarten and 12th grade."

So thousands of VIP professionals, well-educated, esteemed men and women, doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergy, police, justice officials, legislators and the like, as well as many thousands of "uneducated" folks, are annually arrested for child predation.

These predators are carriers of a sex crime epidemic that breached our city walls during the 1960s sexual revolution led by a cadre of Kinseyan sexual psychopaths.

Our nation is well past "the tipping point" of sexual pathology. Until our universities have the courage to face our past mistakes and teach the truth about the Trojan horse-and-bunny history of the sexual revolution, our predatory population will continue to expand, recruit and breed ever greater numbers.

You do the math.

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Lighted Candle Society

'Tsunami of pornography' debases human dignity, archbishop says
By Dan Morris-Young and Barbara Lee5/14/2007

Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (CNS) – Describing what he sees as an "electronic tsunami of pornography," Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco told a Utah-based anti-pornography organization that pornography "debases the priceless worth and dignity of each human being and (God's) gift of human sexuality."

While pornography "is not a new challenge," the archbishop told members of the Lighted Candle Society at its annual awards dinner in Salt Lake City May 8, "the explosive increase in the accessibility and availability of pornography is new and deeply troubling."

"Every computer terminal is its pipeline, and cell phones and other hand-held devices, many of them marketed to children and young people, literally deliver pornography everywhere, to anyone," he said in his keynote address.

Archbishop Niederauer was presented the Lighted Candle Society's Guardian of the Light Award two years ago for his work as president of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography, a position he held for five years as bishop of Salt Lake City before being named archbishop of San Francisco.

The archbishop, who headed the Salt Lake City Diocese from 1994 to 2005, reminded his listeners that pornography "now generates more annual income than all three major professional sports combined, and causes as well the world's fastest growing addiction."

"We have all heard the discouraging numbers," he said, noting research shows there are 68 million Internet "search engine requests for porn sites" every day, that 70 percent of men ages 18 to 24 visit porn sites each month, that "90 percent of 8- to 16-year-olds have viewed porn online," and that "the average age of a child's first exposure to pornography on the Internet is 11."

However, he said, "what should motivate us most profoundly is not the amount of pornography there is but the kind of harm it does. Pornography assaults human dignity and commodifies people and human sexuality. Porn starves the human soul in its spiritual dimension. ... The human person, an irreplaceable gift, becomes a throwaway toy."

The archbishop, who chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on Communications and is a member of the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, cautioned that pornography opponents "need constantly to explore and articulate what we are for, not merely what we are against. Deploring and pointing with alarm are valid and effective only in light of what we value and defend."

Much of the archbishop's talk also addressed the motion picture industry which, he said, "is capable of so much beauty and so much trash."

Admitting he has had "a lifelong love affair with the movies," Archbishop Niederauer criticized "the nihilism that reigns in many quarters of moviemaking" today as well as "excessive violence" and dark portrayals of life.

He called on his listeners, film critics and moviemakers themselves to be wary of being cowed by a desire to seem "supersophisticated."

"The one thing we will not be called is prudes, so we laugh nervously at the vilest sexual aberrations, nod knowingly at the blackest, sickest kind of humor, even relish a bit of violence well carried off," the archbishop said. "Some of us want to come off as so worldly-wise that we defend any evil flashed on-screen by saying, 'Face it, the world is like that!'

"Moviegoers can't be sponges," he added. "Just as in our experiences of other media, in watching films we need to become our own best filters."

At the awards dinner, the Lighted Candle Society presented Guardian of the Light Awards to nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Reagan, the adopted son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and Pamela Atkinson, who succeeded Archbishop Niederauer as president of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography.

The society was founded in 2001 by John Harmer, a former California state senator and California lieutenant governor during Ronald Reagan's term as governor. Harmer and researcher James B. Smith recently co-wrote "The Sex Industrial Complex," subtitled "America's Secret Combination: Pornographic Culture, Addiction and the Human Brain."
In an interview with the Intermountain Catholic, Salt Lake City diocesan newspaper, Harmer said it is through the efforts of people such as Michael Reagan and Atkinson that the Lighted Candle Society is ready to achieve a much broader base.

"When I created the society, I was aware of many similar organizations doing the same work," he said.

But Harmer said he found a void in research and the training of law enforcement officials and prosecutors to effectively fight pornography in the courts on behalf of individuals who have suffered because of the use of pornography.

"It is much like the court battles that have tackled tobacco marketing," he said. "People have no idea how powerful and dangerous these images are and how pervasive they become to a person addicted to pornography." - - -

Cho lapped up our sadosexual culture
Posted: May 3, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
By Judith Reisman
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com-->© 2007


Based on some Internet bloggers' hysteria, my WND column guessing the Virginia Tech killer had a pornography addiction traumatized scores of heavy users out there.
Well, that is to be anticipated after decades of universities and colleges pandering pornography in their bookstores and at their "we're so cool" pornography film fests.


Now it turns out that this "loner" graduated from looking to paying. The local WSLS News Channel 10 reported that the killer hired a female "escort service" a month before he massacred unarmed and defenseless students and faculty.


Cho paid "Chastity" for an hour of private "dancing" in his motel room. When the little tough guy wanted more than dancing, Chastity says she left him flat.


All of the reports about this fantasy-fueled, frustrated egomaniac confirm Cho's anger, fear and hatred of women.


Although Cho was certainly a porn addict, we don't yet know (if we ever will) exactly what kind of Internet cruising he had descended into: sadistic, "barely legal," children, macho/military men or Playboy's fairytale female lovers.


All allegedly "heterosexual" pornography of course fuels disgust and anger at those provocative women who don't really "do it" but who just "tease" their lusting lotharios.
Naturally, since seething Internet seductresses don't "put out," millions of libidinous men go livid. Unable to admit that pornography robs them of their manhood, these poor Internet patsies tell themselves that their desperate excitement is "sex."


Naturally, statistically, some such confused, angry men will turn from these (um, deceitful) women to guys. Even The Advocate admitted back in 1994 that 21 percent of their largely affluent, educated male readers reported molestation by an adult before age 15. Cho's writing suggests he was one of those.


So another coward belligerently stalked women and took illegal under-the-desk crotch photos of co-eds; the ones that the university seems to think were not criminal.
Of course, the man's hate-filled and medically altered brain has been fueled by the same, dare we say it, immoral refuse culture that taints us all; the coarsened, sadosexual television and film fare, the killer-simulating video games and Victoria Secret public spaces that have come to define our ignorant and barbaric age.


Even the Washington Post reported that Korean youths who knew Cho in high school "said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns."


Right, let's hear it for Bill Gates' gaming bottom line. Now we'll be told it's Christian inhibitions and guns that cause mass murder. Of course, at most high school gun clubs, even in my day, kids practiced shooting at targets, not at people.


Blogger "CLS" pointed out that proposed Virginia legislation in 2005 would have allowed students and faculty with a valid concealed handgun permit to carry firearms at Virginia Tech and other universities. Since the legislation was defeated, Virginia Tech became another "gun free zone" in our erototoxically crazed society.


Firearms for self-defense are verboten. Only firearms for massacres are allowed.
In several prior attacks, would-be killers were stopped by gun-totting faculty and students who had to first retrieve their firearms from their cars. Of course, these heroes don't appear above the fold in the New York Times. That honor is reserved for the latest glaring, copycat killer in pseudo military gear.

Blogger James Lewis raised another question about who taught Cho to hate.
Lewis asks what Cho learned in school. Although his answer is well worth reading in full, here is a glimpse:

"English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking, and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated. They show up in a lot of faculty writing. Not by all the faculty, but probably by more than half. Just check out their websites."

I did. He's right. And talk about learning: After God got kicked out of American schools from kindergarten to university, the Ten Commandments came down and AIDS posters went up.
Kind friends, we are reaping the results of "The Marketing of Evil." As is the case in any war, it is the innocent, especially the children, who pay the price for our arrogant, egotistical sexual license and our ignorance of real American history and tradition.

Dr. Judith Reisman is president of the Institute for Media Education and is the author of "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."

Awards Dinner Honors Anti Porn Efforts

May 8 Awards Dinner honors anti-pornography efforts
San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer will give dinner's keynote address
by Barbara Stinson LeeIntermountain Catholic

SALT LAKE CITY — If the face of the Hon. John Harmer, a former California state senator and lieutenant governor, appears worn and tired it’s because he is fighting a 40-year battle with images he doesn’t like to look at and words he hates to read. Harmer, the founder and chairman of the Lighted Candle Society, now in its sixth year, is leading a charge against pornography, whether it is found in magazines and books, movies and television, or popping up into our homes uninvited via the internet.

Harmer doesn’t fight this battle alone. On May 8 at the annual Guardian of the Light Awards Dinner at Little America in Salt Lake City, Harmer and the Lighted Candle Society will honor Michael Reagan and Pamela Atkinson for their efforts. San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, former president of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography, will give the keynote address at the dinner.

Reagan, the adopted son of the late President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is the host of the conservative radio talk show, “The Michael Reagan Show,” is syndicated through Radio America. He will be honored for his anti-porn efforts on the national level. Atkinson, a local activist who took over the reigns of the Utah Coalition Against Pornography from Bishop

George Niederauer after he was named archbishop of San Francisco, will be recognized for her anti-porn stand on the local level.

In an interview with the Intermountain Catholic, Harmer said it is through the efforts of people like Reagan and Atkinson that the Lighted Candle Society is ready to achieve a much broader base.

“When I created the Society, I was aware of many similar organizations doing the same work. A lot of our money has gone to those organizations. I wanted to fill a void.”

Harmer has found that void – it is research and the training of law enforcement and prosecutors to effectively fight pornography in the courts on behalf of individuals who have suffered because of the use of pornography. “It is much like the court battles that have tackled tobacco marketing,” he said

In a new book Harmer co-wrote with Bountiful Researcher James B. Smith, “The Sex Industrial Complex: Americas Secret Combination, Pornographic Culture, Addiction and the Human Brain,” Harmer takes on corporate entities and the powerful movie industry “that are profiting from the production, distribution, and financing of pornography. They support each other and use presumably independent entities such as Planned Parenthood and the ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union) to protect themselves.”

“The Sex Industrial Complex,” Harmer’s editor notes, “documents the rise and cultural saturation of pornographic propaganda and ideology throughout the 20th century. From the ACLU to MTV and motion pictures; Harmer lays out the history, social implications, and societal impact of a worldwide pornographic culture.”

Harmer said the research of Dr. Judith Reisman, to whom the book is dedicated, “reveals that frequent use of pornography creates addiction and brain damage in the structure and the function of the brain. Through the use of fMRI’s (functional magnetic resonance imaging) we can now watch the human brain react to the stimuli of violence and pornography.”

Dr. Reisman’s research and that of the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Mary Ann Leyden, Harmer said, provide the protocol for an estimated $2 million – $3 million study the Lighted Candle Society intends to undertake and publish on the harmful effects of pornography on the human brain.

“People have no idea how powerful and dangerous these images are and how pervasive they become to a person addicted to pornography,” Harmer said.

For further information about the Lighted Candle Society, The Guardian of the Light Awards Dinner, or “The Sex Industrial Complex” go to: www.lightedcandlesociety.org.
John Harmer, founder and chairman of the Lighted Candle Society, is a tireless fighter in the struggle against pornography. Working from offices in Washington, D.C. and Bountiful, Utah, he brings to light the dark world of pornography that is supported by some of the most reputable companies in the U.S. They have found that pornography is a profitable business.

Porn and Pancakes

'Porn & Pancakes' fights X-rated addictions


POSTED: 11:31 a.m. EDT, April 5, 2007 CNN.com

Story Highlights• Every second, approximately 28,258 Internet users are viewing
pornography• Breakfast event helps men discuss how pornography affects their
lives• Craig Gross founded XXXChurch.com to battle against porn industry• A
Kentucky organization uses biblical counseling to break addictions

More on CNN TV: Questions of sex and salvation. What is a Christian? An "Anderson Cooper 360°" special report, Thursday, 10 p.m. ET.");}

By Jason Rovou CNN

MORTON, Illinois (CNN) -- At 8 o'clock on a recent Saturday morning, more than 250 men gathered at New Life Christian Church in Morton, Illinois, for a breakfast of porn and pancakes.
The event, not as titillating as it sounds, is the brainchild of Craig Gross, founder of the online Christian ministry, XXXChurch.com.

Gross concocted the idea of "Porn & Pancakes" as a way to get Christians and church officials to talk about pornography addiction.

It's a problem, he said, that is growing, among Christian communities.

Over the smell of maple syrup and sausage, Gross and other guest speakers -- including a former producer of pornography -- talk to the men about how pornography negatively affects their lives, including relationships with their families and with God. The men who come to hear them speak want to make sure they don't develop a problem themselves.

"A lot of people think Christians sure don't struggle with this," Gross said. "The stats don't lie: Christians are consuming pornography. And to me, it's not a surprise."

A nonscientific poll on XXXChurch.com found that 70 percent of Christians admitted to struggling with porn in their daily lives. Church officials are not immune either. According to Gross, some 76 percent of pastors he surveyed said they, too, have a problem. Gross says he's not surprised so many Christians find themselves struggling with addictions to pornography, considering just how mainstream and easily accessible it has become.

Adult entertainment is an enormous business in the United States, taking in an estimated $12 billion annually. Every second, approximately 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography, according to the Internet Filter Review. With some 4.2 million pornographic Web sites to explore, many Christians find themselves unable to turn away.

'Jesus Loves Porn Stars'
Gross started his ministry to spark discussion on a topic he found to be largely ignored within religious circles. The breakfast meetings are just part of that ministry.
His organization attends adult industry conventions, handing out bibles to pornography fans and workers that read "Jesus Loves Porn Stars." Gross travels the country having friendly debates on college campuses with iconic porn star Ron Jeremy on the effects of pornography. And XXXChurch.com also offers free accountability software, which Gross says has been downloaded by 300,000 people. It works by sending reports to a couple of trusted persons -- a friend, a wife, a pastor -- about which Web sites have been visited.

While Gross' ministry tries to prevent Christians from developing a problem, other organizations cater to those who say they have nowhere else to turn.

Jerry -- who asked that his last name not be used -- said he began looking at pornography at a young age and has, by his account, spent thousands of hours surfing the web, looking at adult magazines and utilizing chat rooms.

"I was in it, as much as possible," he said. "Just like an alcoholic or someone who has an addiction to drugs."

Jerry is one of the 55 men living at Pure Life Christian Ministries in rural Williamstown, Kentucky, who have come here to as a last resort to reclaim their lives and their Christian values.

The ministries offer a six month, live-in treatment program for men with sexual addictions. At the facility, which claims to be the only one of its kind in the country, counselors take a biblical approach to healing instead of a psychological one.

The live-in program demands intense Bible study and discipline from the residents. Each day is structured for work, prayer, and one-on-one biblical counseling, where the men study scriptural lessons on guilt, anger, depression and selfishness. The men are cut off from the outside world and any outside stimulation. There is no television, Internet or cell phones. Mail is even screened for clothing catalogues with what could be considered inappropriate images.

Over the past 15 years, more than 600 men have come here to detox from their porn addictions.

'Their soul's in danger'
"We actually understand their soul's in danger," said Jeff Colón, the head counselor here who went through the program 13 years ago to save himself from his own pornography and sexual addictions. "When the men come to us, they've gotten to the end of their rope."

"Jerry" said his compulsions were robbing his young son and wife from a normal family life.

"It was killing me, from the inside. I was riddled with guilt," he said. "And by the grace of God, he pulled me out of that pit, and brought me here, before it got to a point to where ... who knows? I mean I could have ended up anywhere."

While Jerry and other program residents are working hard to leave their addictions behind, the true test of their willpower and faith will come after they return to the real world, where Colón said they'll be bombarded with sexual images on television, in advertising and on the computer.

"We do live in a sexualized culture, and it is difficult for these men when they leave here," he said. "It doesn't help."

How Widespread Is It Among Our Judiciary that Sex With Children is a "Natural Impulse?"

THE JUDGE SAYS: "When I say that, it's my understanding that most men are sexually attracted to young women..I mean women from the time they're 1 all the way up until they're 100." Maddox noted the legal terms malum in se, a Latin phrase meaning an act that is "inherently evil," and malum prohibitum, which means acts that are not necessarily inherently immoral or hurtful, only wrong by statute. He said child pornography could be considered malum prohibitum because in some countries and cultures it is acceptable to engage in sexual conduct with young girls."

--Carson City, Nevada District Judge Bill Maddox


by F.T. NortonAppeal Staff Writer, ftnorton@nevadaappeal.com

March 28, 2007A Carson City man was sentenced to up to 18 years in prison on Tuesday for possessing more than 800 images of child pornography.

Jason Excell, 36, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of possession of child pornography. In exchange for the plea, additional charges were dismissed.

"These kinds of offenses are problems with impulse control," said Carson City District Judge Bill Maddox prior to sentencing. "When I say that, it's my understanding that most men are sexually attracted to young women. When I say young women I don't just mean women that ... you should be attracted to. I mean women from the time they're 1 all the way up until they're 100."

Maddox noted the legal terms malum in se, a Latin phrase meaning an act that is "inherently evil," and malum prohibitum, which means acts that are not necessarily inherently immoral or hurtful, only wrong by statute. He said child pornography could be considered malum prohibitum because in some countries and cultures it is acceptable to engage in sexual conduct with young girls."

"As an example, having sex with a girl between 12 and 16 is prohibited because we say it's prohibited. It's because we decided as a civilized society you do not want adults engaging in sexual conduct with children below 16 years of age, which flies in the face of our, I guess for lack of a better description, our normal impulses," he said.

"I guess we could just ignore them, say it's just like a traffic ticket, it's malum prohibitum, it's only against the law because it's prohibited. Or we could say that because we're trying to control what's an otherwise natural impulse there has to be consequences."The bottom line on it all is the way we're going to control it in my opinion is to ensure that everybody understands what the consequences are if you engage in ... a lack of impulse control. It's likely that most people would find young girls sexually attractive. But we're civilized to the point that we're taught to control our impulses. When you don't, there has to be consequences."

In sentencing Excell, Maddox said he wanted to send a message to others in the community who might possess images of child porn."I want it to be clear to anybody out there that is thinking of downloading them or getting them on CD or ordering them through the mail or whatever, if you get caught possessing them you're going to go to prison in Carson City," he said. Excell was arrested March 3, 2006, after his wife turned over photographs she found on his computer.

According to Deputy District Attorney Kristin Luis, the images are of children "easily under the age of 10," being sexually violated by adults or engaging in sex with other children.

She said at least 88 of the photographs were of children who have been identified by federal authorities through other child pornography cases nationwide. Maddox could have sentenced Excell to between 10 and 60 years. Parole and probation suggested a sentence of two to 12 years. Maddox opted for an additional six years on Excell's sentence so that if he were paroled, he'd be under state supervision longer. Excell is eligible for parole in two years. He was given credit for serving 391 days in jail.

. Contact reporter F.T. Norton at ftnorton@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1213.


Transcripts of sentencing of Jason Excell on child porn charges:1 Case No. 06-01651C2

Department No. IIIN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTSTATE OF NEVADA, COUNTY OF CARSON CITYHONORABLE WILLIAM MADDOX
THE STATE OF NEVADA,PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS
Plaintiff, JUDGE'S RULINGvs.
MARCH 27, 2007CARSON CITY, NEVADA
JASON ERIC EXCELL,Defendant.

APPEARANCES:FOR THE PLAINTIFF: OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYBy: KRISTIN N. LUIS, ESQ.885 E. Musser St., Room 203017 Carson City, Nevada 8970318FOR

THE DEFENDANT: OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER19 By: KARIN K. KREIZENBECK, ESQ.RobinsonCarson City, Nevada 89701

FOR DEPT. PAROLE & PROBATION: SHERYL EILENFELDTSUNSHINE REPORTING SERVICES(775) 883-7950 or (775) 323-3411

REPORTED BY: STEPHANIE ZOLKOWSKI, CCR 283COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRANSCRIPTION BY: caseCATalystSUNSHINE REPORTING SERVICES (775) 323-3411CARSON CITY, NEVADA, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2007, 11:10 AM

THE COURT: Is there any legal cause to show4 why judgement shouldn't be entered?

MS. KREIZENBECK: No, Your honor.

THE COURT: There being no legal cause toshow why judgement shouldn't be entered, it will bethe judgment of the Court that Jason Eric Excell isguilty of Counts I through X, all category B -- well,Counts I through X, Possession of Child Pornography,first offenses, category B -- felonies, as defined byNRS 200.730 subsection 1.It will be the sentence of the Court that youpay a $25 administrative assessment fee, $60 chemicalanalysis fee and $150 DNA fee.I have been doing -- I have been in the criminal justice system in the State of Nevada andprobably all over the United States for almost 30 years, Mr. Excell. I was the primary person in the DistrictAttorney's office when I was a District Attorney who prosecuted child abuse cases. I consider sexualoffenses against children as abuse. I have come to I think understand a little bit about -- the doctor here didn't really add much tomy knowledge about it. When I was US Attorney my office prosecuted a lot of significant types. One of them was a guy namedRuben Sterling who was the largest pornographer in the world. We prosecuted him.
So I have been involved and had a lot of time to think about it, dealt with victims and even had occasion when I was in private practice to defendpeople accused of it. I have had a lot of experience with this.

It's my impression from all the experts that I have talked to, and it's been a fair number of them, that the doctor, the way he put it, isn't quite theway I put it. These kinds of offenses are problems with impulse control. When I say that it's my understanding that most men are sexually attracted toyoung women. When I say young women I don't just mean women that are appropriately you should be attracted to. I mean women from the time they're one all the way up until they're a hundred.

In some societies it's acceptable to be engaging in sexual conduct with women that are eleven, twelve-, thirteen-years-old. So we overlay that with laws that prohibit any sexual contact with children under 14 and any intercourse with children under 16, which means that those kinds of crimes are not what are called malum prohibitum, evil of themselves, they're crimes that are called malum prohibitum. As an example, having sex with a girl between12 and 16 is prohibited because we say it's prohibited.It's because we decided as a civilized society you do not want adults engaging in sexual conduct with children below 16 years of age, which flies in the face of our, I guess for lack of a better description, our normal impulses.

So what's the answer to that? What's the answer? How do we enforce those laws?I guess we could just ignore them, say it's just like a traffic ticket, it's malum prohibitum, it's only against the law because it's prohibited.

Or we could say that because we're trying to control what's an otherwise natural impulse there has to be consequences. There has to be consequences.

And in the overall scheme of things you're not even close to being the worst offender of our sexual morass that I have seen.4I have prosecuted fathers who force their 14-year old daughter to perform fellatio on them or 20-, 30-year old guy performing sexual acts on a seven-year old girl. Ruben Sterling who purveyed films of people having sex with animals. I have seen a wide spectrum. The bottom line on it all is the way we're8 going to control it in my opinion is to insure that everybody understands what the consequences are if you engage in and it's a lack of impulse control.

It's likely that most people would find young girls sexually attractive.

But we're civilized to the point that we're taught to control our impulses. When you don't, there has to be consequences. So having said all of that, I don't think you're someone that society needs to isolate. I don't -- you can argue about retribution. I don't know who I would be obtaining that for. Rehabilitation. You'll be on parole and you'll be able to get counseling which I absolutely suggest that you do.

I don't know if you have been specifically deterred from engaging in this type of conduct again. But what I do know is, and I have said it before, I want it to be clear what the consequences in this community are of engaging in this kind of conduct that you engaged in. So I'm not going to give you probation.I'm just sitting here and calculating it out. Based on the number of Counts you pled to I could sentence you to 23 years to 60 years which would bethe maximum. I'm not going to do that. Parole and Probation is recommending that I sentence you four years to eighteen -- to four years, eight months to eleven years, two months. I'm not going to do that.
The sentence is going to be on Count I I'll sentence you from 12 to 72 months. Count II I'll sentence you from 12 to 72 months. Actually, I'll sentence you 12 to 72 months on all ten Counts. I'm going to run Counts I, II and III consecutive, which means you're going to be required to spend 36 months to three times 72, whatever that is. My thought process there is that that will allow for you to be supervised for 18 years but you only serve three years in prison, assuming that you get paroled at your first parole date which based on your criminal history and other factors, like I say, you could not be lower on the sexual offender scale.About the only thing that gets you right off the bottom would be the fact you asked that girl to take her clothes off. But other than that I can't imagine someone being lower on the offender scale than you are. On the other hand, and Ms. Kreizenbeck said it, if there isn't a market for these kinds of9 photographs, then hopefully their production will be considerably reduced. To your credit you didn't engage in producing them. You have looks like acted out on your impulse other than that one time. That's really what it's about. It's impulse control.he doctor made the observation not having any substance abuse problems. What happens? You drink, you don't control your impulses as well as you8 should. You use drugs, you don't control your impulses as well as you should. You obviously have less impulse control than I might or other people. I definitely would suggest you don't drink or use drugs, especially if you're going to be around children. But this will give you a sentence of 36 to216 months. The rest of them will be run concurrent. You're given credit for -

MS. EILENFELDT: 391 days.Your honor, there is no chemical analysis fee. So please scratch that.

THE COURT: I want it to be clear to anybody out there that is thinking of downloading them or getting them on CD or ordering them through the mailor whatever, if you get caught possessing them you're going to go to prison in Carson City. That's what is going to happen to you.I don't know it's necessary to specifically deter you but what I would hope is it would be clear to others here thinking about doing the same thing and4 maybe at some point we can accomplish there being no demand for them and, therefore, they won't be produced.Anything more?MS. LUIS: No, Your honor.

THE COURT: That will be the sentence of the court.Good luck, Mr. Excell.(Proceedings concluded at 12:15 p.m.)1 STATE OF NEVADA )) ss.2 CARSON COUNTY )5 I, STEPHANIE ZOLKOWSKI, an Official Reporter of6 the First Judicial District Court of the State of7 Nevada, County of Carson, DO HEREBY CERTIFY: That I was present in the above-entitled Court on MARCH 27, 2007, and took verbatim stenotype notes10 of the proceedings had upon the matter captioned1 within, and thereafter transcribed them into2 typewriting as herein appears;13 That the partial foregoing transcript, consisting of pages 1 through 8, is a full, true andcorrect transcription of my stenotype notes of saidproceedings.17 DATED: At Carson City, Nevada, this________day18 of____________________________, 2007.

Can Pornography Damage The Teenage Brain?

Hon. John L. Harmer: Pornography damages teen brains


by: Jenniffer Wardell

Can pornography actually damage the teenage brain?

That’s one of the assertions lawyer and former California legislator and Lt. Governor under Governor Ronald Reagan, the Hon. John L. Harmer makes in his latest book, The Sex Industrial Complex. Exploring MRI research gathered by Dr. Judith Reisman, president of Arizona’s Institute for Media Education, the book claims that exposing a young person’s developing brain to pornography rewires neural connections to create a lasting addiction to pleasure-inducing brain chemicals Reisman refers to as “Erotoxins.” “Pornography creates a chemical addiction in the same way cigarettes and alcohol do,” said Harmer.

In his book, Harmer cites sources from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the British National Addiction Centre to describe how dopamine, a key drug released by the brain during arousal, has the same effect as cocaine or speed and can create the same addictions in the brain.

For children and teens, Harmer feels that the addiction could be even stronger and more damaging. The amygdala, the part of the brain that controls fear and other “gut” reactions, develops at a much younger age than the more cognitive frontal lobe, and cites information from the National Institute of Health that says the amygdala is used more often to process images even into the teenage years.Because of this, Harmer said, when teenagers look at porn the images are not only linked in the brain to feelings of lust, but to other “gut” responses that the teen might be feeling such as anxiety or shame.

As an addiction forms, lust becomes permanently linked with the more negative emotions.“Studies have shown that the human brain is the last body organ to mature,” he said. “The teenage brain is at risk because it’s a long way from being fully developed.”According to Harmer, this information may be the key to fighting back successfully against pornography makers and distributors. As an attorney in Los Angeles, Harmer assisted the district attorney in successful attempts to prosecute pornographers, and has followed the progress of similar cases all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.“

"Up until now all the litigation against porn has been criminal, but these studies are developing a basis for civil actions against the pornographers,” said Harmer. “Especially with online pornography, most people who become addicted did not willingly begin that process.“It’s like the tobacco litigation from a few years ago where the companies claimed that tobacco doesn’t cause cancer. If people have no knowledge of the risks involved, there’s no way they can assume the responsibility for those risks.”Harmer and the anti-pornography association he founded, The Lighted Candle Society in Salt Lake, are currently raising the necessary funds for a major MRI study that directly explores the negative effects of pornography on the human brain. The cost for such a project is estimated at $2-3 million.

Two years ago the society gathered a panel of neuroscientists from all across the country to develop the protocol for the test, but Harmer said that the technology has changed so much since then that they need to reconvene the panel and develop new protocols. Once this is completed, he expects the actual study to begin sometime in 2008.“We’re only using scientists from outside the state because we don’t want there to be an immediate bias against our results,” said Harmer. “It’s been a lot of work, but the truth needs to come out.”

Those looking for more information, to donate, or purchase the book, please go online to http://lightedcandlesociety.org

Women and men say no to porn at Wheelock College

This is an interesting and great article that I'd highly recommend. Many thanks to Growingwiser for providing this link.

http://womensspace.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/women-and-men-say-no-to-porn-report-on-the-feminist-anti-pornography-conference-at-wheelock-college/