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The Witherspoon Institute Releases Statement of Findings and Recommendations
Cincinnati–Last year, The Witherspoon Institute at Princeton University held a meeting to discuss the social cost of pornography. Citizens for Community Values (CCV) president, Phil Burress, attended that meeting by invitation. Now, after months of research, the experts have released a Statement of Findings and Recommendations.
A press [...]

For Immediate Release:  December 2, 2009

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J.P. Duffy or Maria Donovan, (866) FRC-NEWS

Phil Burress, President, Citizens for Community Values, 513-733-5775

Washington, D.C. – Citizens for Community Values and Family Research Council jointly released a new study today that comprehensively details the effects of pornography on marriages, children, communities and individual happiness.
The study, “The Effects of Pornography on [...]

I’ve been told that if I’d been a parent in the 1950s, I probably would have spoken out against Elvis Presley’s pelvic thrust as a dance move. The theory is that teens of every generation will find their own ways to rebel against the cultural norm, and that parents from one generation to the next [...]

Well, I know pizza isn’t really all that “good” for you, but I think this crosses a line. 
Corey Wildeman has opened a pizza delivery store in Winnipeg, Canada. He says his customers are 75-80 percent female. So, what’s the big deal; where’s the story?
Underneath the pizza, on the cardboard box, is a pornographic picture.
“It runs [...]

I finally got my Barnes & Noble membership card in the mail last week. This week, I’ll send it back.
I was walking past the bookstore’s magazine racks the other day when something caught my eye. I’d certainly never seen magazines in plastic bags here before. And in a section like “Men’s Interest,” that could mean [...]

The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) recently hosted an adult-only fundraiser featuring a “neo-burlesque performance” by a former Miss Exotic World. ICAH strongly advocates the use of “comprehensive” sex education for school children.
Of course my initial thought is, “How does this even seem like a good idea?” Apparently they’re not too concerned about PR, [...]

As it turns out, selling yourself for sex has physical consequences. What, then are we to do when porn stars start testing positive for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea? Why, give them condoms, of course!
How backwards does a culture have to be when pornography is an acceptable career choice, and serious STDs are labeled simply as [...]