NO PORN PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH

PURITANISM: The haunting suspicion that somebody, somewhere is enjoying themselves.

April 2019 - Britain from the end of April will at last cleanse, protect and cure its citizens from the curse of  Portnoy's Complaint and rescue them from the mortal Sin of Onan. The Internet will be purified. Souls will be saved! All of heaven rejoices. 

BACK TO THE BAD OLD DAYS? 

Early Protestant views[edit]

Making reference to Onan's offense to identify masturbation as sinful, in his Commentary on Genesis, John Calvin wrote that "the voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between a man and a woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is double monstrous."^[13][14] Methodism founder John Wesley, according to Bryan C. Hodge, "believed that any waste of the semen in an unproductive sexual act, whether that should be in the form of masturbation or coitus interruptus, as in the case of Onan, destroyed the souls of the individuals who practice it".^[15] He writes his Thoughts on the Sin of Onan (1767), 

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METRO - Porn sites ‘will all require proof of age from April 2019’ – here’s how it’ll work Rob Waugh Wednesday 19 Dec 2018.

Masturbation is about to get a lot more complicated from April next year – with porn sites requiring proof of age before anyone can see adult content (including free sites). Rules for how the ban on under-18s will work were quietly passed by the House of Commons on Monday this week – and are expected to be in place by April. From that date, anyone who visits a porn site from a British IP address will be asked for ‘proof’ they are 18, provided either from ID such as driving licences or from age verification cards bought in shops.

Read more:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/19/porn-sites-will-require-proof-age-april-2019-itll-work-8265771/?ito=cbshare

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http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/statistics2006to2008.htm

As part of our promotion of the Internet for teleworking, from 1992 I kept track of Internet use. These statistics included, of course for "Research-Purposes-Only" the largest survey (18,000) of British sexual fantasies, by Dr Brett Khar, Tavistock Clinic, London:

Lots of Sex Please – We’re British – 13 Feb 07

 The latest and the world’s largest survey of sexual fantasies has just been published by Penguin UK. It is based on more than 13,000 completed questionnaires issued by pollsters U.Gov. Sex & the Psyche is written by London psychotherapist Brett Khar. ISBN 978-0-713-99940-2. (see our pre-publication data below). It is a large book with masses of data – some relating to the internet which we may analyse later. For now, suffice it to say that the book lists about 100 favourite British fantasies – which I am diligently working my way through, as a labour of love. I may not survive this “for research only” work. 

http://www.noelhodson.com/index_files/statistics2006to2008.htm#_Toc229386683 

British Sex on the Net – Time Magazine – 12 June 06

These statistics support the findings in Brett Kahr’s report.

Pornography on the Net – 17th May 05

TIME MAGAZINE 12th June 2006 published more of their enigmatic stats:
9	million British men downloaded pornography from the Internet,  last year.
1.4	million British women -ditto-
	Our assumptions
Population of the UK	60,000,000
Lifespan	72	years
so born PER YEAR	833,333
50% are male and 50% female	50%	50%
Men who downloaded images in 2005	9,000,000	1,400,000	Women who downloaded  images in 2005
Males born per year	416,667	416,667	Females born per year
	AGE	AGE
Interested in sex  with access to Internet from	14	14	Interested in sex  with access to Internet from
to	80	54	to
years	66	40	years
Adult sexual males	27,500,000	16,666,667	Adult sexual females
Males with private/home  access to the internet?	33%	20%	Women with private/home  access to the internet?
Men with private access	9,075,000	3,333,333	Women with private access
Use pornography	100%	42%	Use pornography
	UK	UK

 

To cut a long story and too many statistics short; by 2006 we found that 100% of men and 42% of women who had home-computers or cell phones accessed pornography sites. The UK adult population was mired in sinful, lustful, self-abusing, abominable practices. These addictions were (and are) very probably sapping the nation's moral strength, its physical and mental health (deafness, blindness, rickets, insanity, boils and pestilence) and reducing the UK's annual Gross Domestic Product. That was 13 years ago. Imagine the numbers today. Little wonder that the British Empire has crumbled and fallen into the scalding pit of hellfire "Where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth". 

But - Now comes redemption for all Brits. Under the noble mantle of Protecting-Children-From-Sin and from eating of the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge, as forbidden by God (knowledge of sex), those who know best what is good for us - the men with beards, tall hats and thorny staffs and the women with bad teeth, open-toed sandals and black shawls - and all Victorian doctors - have cut off, at a stroke, the largest source of visual debauchery. Britain is saved! 

Twelve to eighteen million self-abusing voyeurs, peeping Toms, will either have to never peep again, revert to Playboy Magazine, sleep under CCTV cameras with their arms and hands outside the blankets (as was the rule in Russian Gulags) OR be Internet registered and identified on THE PUBLIC LISTS OF SHAME AND INFAMY - and so be ruined and shunned by all decent society. 

All copies of Fanny Hill, Lady Chatterley's Lover and The naughty bits from the Bible are to be burned on public bonfires. The National Gallery will relocate all fleshy paintings to a cellar, with admittance only to identified  lechers, who will be monitored and photographed for the public records. 

The wholly secret PUBLIC LISTS will be maintained by the pornography businesses, - who promise not to advertise to, blackmail or abuse anybody and to only copy the lists to central and local governments, GCHQ, Russia, Korea & China, Wikileaks, The WI, all schools, libraries, police forces, post-offices and parking-wardens. 

The rush to publicly register as an habitual porno-masturbate-r is accelerating - so hurry to get your name, address, age, driving licence and email address onto the list. 

Will it work - like bans on prostitution since 5,000 BC? Or will it spawn a global new industry, a new Dark-Net, of hidden identities on the Internet? 

Or will it herald a revival of the top-shelf magazine printing industry and Murdoch's Page 3 in The Sun? TIME will tell. 

CARDINAL SINS

Holy men - high on sexual sadism.

Contributors to Guardian Letters 25 Feb 19, and religious leaders, currently mass debating about Catholic paedophilia, might consider that demanding unnatural sexual behavior, celibacy, as decided at the Second Lateran Council 1139, denying God’s imperatives for normal humans (which produces boils) is a gross heresy against Nature. On Judgement Day, how will its advocates explain why they were right to stone fornicators to death -  and how they think God got the design and urges of humans, his Children of God,  so very wrong?  Noel HODSON - Author

Below are just two of the hundreds of contemporary complaints against clergymen and nuns, of sexual abuse and of  sadistic treatment  of orphans and single-mothers. All these offences are directly caused by the very weird, strange and insane imposition of celibacy on religious orders. Celibacy is undeniably an unnatural curb on normal, innocent, healthy, God-given powers and behavioral-characteristics of well-balanced humans. Such prohibitions are not confined to medieval Catholics; they infect most religions, which prefer to meditate on controlling their parishioners' sex lives rather than on charity and doing good acts. The alleged self-proclaimed "pure" clergy then define normal behavior as impure "SIN" - and set about punishing the  sinners, physically or psychologically - satisfying their own perverted sexual pleasures via sadism. It is long past the time that stone-age and medieval religious misconceptions were consigned to the dustbin of extremely bad ideas. Let's start with the ridiculous philosophy of celibacy.  We might learn from chimpanzees, who don't kill fornicators, or ritualistically cut-off parts of their children's sex-organs. 

BBC - NEWS 25 FEB 19 : Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of sexual offences in Australia, making him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to receive such a conviction.

Pell abused two choir boys in the rooms of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, a jury found. He had pleaded not guilty.

The verdict was handed down in December, but it could not be reported until now due to legal reasons.

Pell is due to face sentencing hearings from Wednesday. He has lodged an appeal against his conviction.

As Vatican treasurer, the 77-year-old Australian was one of the Church's most powerful officials.

His trial was heard twice last year because a first jury failed to reach a verdict.

A second jury unanimously convicted him of one charge of sexually penetrating a child under 16, and four counts of committing an indecent act on a child under 16.

WASHINGTON DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl faces calls to resign over Catholic sex abuse cover-up

Wuerl is accused of knowingly turning a blind eye to abusive priests.

By Tara Isabella Burton@NotoriousTIBtara.burton@vox.com  Aug 29, 2018, 2:30pm EDT

SEX AND SIN EXPLAINED

"IT" is an "ABOMINATION"

SENSE OF DIRECTION - UTOPIAN VISION

TO BOLDLY GO...

Before the adorable, understanding Miss Tom-Tom entered my life, I rarely used maps to detail routes. I have or had an unerring sense of direction; so, by car, I would simply look at the map, for example from London to Rome (cities in Europe, which is a continent east of America), note the south-south-west direction, list the main towns - and start driving. It worked well before traffic planners installed by-passes, ring-roads, multiple-mini-roundabouts and spaghetti-junctions at freeway and motorway cross-overs. Even then, spun around the compass, as long as the sun (or moon) was visible I could re-orient myself and speed away in the right direction. 

That was then; now most of our friends and colleagues, even our enemies, agree that the human world, the world of politics and power, has lost its sense of direction. I often hear from diverse regions that we are being led by chaotic, vision-less, career politicians; intent only on being re-elected, or better still, on abolishing elections and becoming dictators for life. Leaders who offer no realistic better future or any sense of direction. Without a sense of direction, we are all lost. 

Here are my directions, my aims. Here are the things we must do to advance the human race to the next level and create a truly wonderful world for all:

1) World Government. The greatest human anxieties (the planet will survive with or without us) have no boundaries. Overpopulation, water, food, energy, plagues, pollution, poisonous air, oceans of plastic, collapse of the global economy, global-warming, too little sex, galloping extinctions, to name but a few, are transborder issues. All transborder issues need global rules (which adapt with circumstances). We need to select the best democratic rules and structures from around the world and from history (constantly revised) and use them to form World Government, with sufficient persuasive and police powers to ensure the agreed policies are operated fairly, with justice. Build on the UN, The United States of America, Ancient Greece, and The United States of Europe. Go and do it! 

Local politics (e.g. Home Rule for Brookside - the street where I live) is also vital. The electronic revolution enables "A patchwork of diverse communities with diverse lifestyles, under a global umbrella." Large, medium and small groups can create their own socio-economic environments and live as they wish - (without harm to others). Get to it!

2) Fair Shares - Birthright. The source of all conflicts, even or particularly those masquerading as religious conflicts, are about money. Who owns what. Who should own what. And how can we steal what them, those heretics, heathens and traitors over there, have got. Follow the Money. It is inevitable that The Electronic Revolution will replace all traditional work. "We have worked hard to abolish work - and have succeeded - Telework Explained 1992". The Electronic Revolution is about 10% advanced. Does any idiot imagine that it will not replace our sweated labour/labor? It is equally inevitable that we MUST share out wealth, capital and income to all. If not, 0.5% will own the world; 99.5% will have nothing. Markets will collapse. All commerce will collapse and we will be reduced to stone-age bartering. Birthright gives all new-borns a full protected share - a trust-fund. It is vital that we do this. Read the paper - and then Go and Do It! Start in your local community - it is scalable and good economics. 

3) Clean, Green, Lean Energy: There is no limit in our solar system to renewable energy; solar, wind, water, geothermal etc. We do not need to restrict clean energy. This is already about 10% completed. We need limitless energy - free to all (see Birthright above). Just 90% to go. Get on with it!  

4) Feuds: All feuds are actually about money/property. Even feuds that purport to have arisen millennia ago and be in the name of god, or gods or another damned Master-Race. (They all actually date to within the warped memories of the lunatics alive today who continue the hatred and violence - 100 years at the most). They could all be resolved by rapidly developing huge undeveloped regions such as the Qattara desert basin, with high-tech industries - then attracting the disgruntled "withouts and have-nots" to live in and develop such regions. Provided they get educated and learn to think instead of kill. We need World Government or the European Union or another large economy, to set these up - and people who can read & write to occupy them and grow rich. This ties back to 2) Birthright above. Just stop squabbling and go and do it. 

5) Sin and Religion: All definitions of "sin" (sin means separation from community)  are simply crowd control. Does God really care about us "spilling our seed on the ground" or being a "Scarlet Harlot" or stealing a loaf of bread or skipping prayers, or digging the garden on the Sabbath? She/He/It has His/Her/Its hands full keeping the universe on course, which is at least 13.75 billion years old and 5.5 followed by 23 zeros miles across (5, 500, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 miles) with billions of inhabitable planets. The analogy would be Donald J Trump ordering and controlling all the zillions of spermatozoa released by all the coral-reefs at the full moon. 

Aside from obvious antisocial crimes: Thou shalt not kill, steal, rape, drool over your neighbour's wife/ spouse/ partner, eat ALL the cakes, and so on, all "sins" are man-made not god-made rules imposed by the powerful on the meek - policed by the priests, Imams, clergy etc - mostly to do with Sex and Money; to reserve the best of the virgins for Droit-de-Signeur. Before man and woman kind can evolve from befuddled apes into humans - we need to forgive ourselves and each other for our so-called sins and alleged guilt. Religions divert immense amounts of human energy - better used to build a better world. Replace it with education. 

6) Intelligent Cooperation: In the UK in June 2016 we had a BREXIT referendum where all voters, 99% of us utterly ignorant of the astounding complexity of our trade and political agreements with the 28 nations and 550 million souls in the EU, which we have built over 60 years, dealing with 77,000 diverse global trade and services items, were all imagined to be equipped to weigh the consequences for the next 100 years and to vote intelligently. "Do we stay - or - Do we quit?" The old, selfish, offshore-tax-free-rich, unemployed and dumb voted to QUIT. The young, optimistic and bright voted to STAY. In our majority aged population, the dying, demented, dim and diseased won out - so, we are headed for a catastrophic Brexit. It was an emotional knee-jerk vote that has split the country. Michael Bloomberg said "it is the stupidest economic decision any nation has ever taken". The deadline is March 2019. The terrible damage, seven million job loses (25% of paid jobs), is just becoming obvious to all. Can such irrational, emotional issues, in all societies, be made subject to analyses and thought? We must include all people in the benefits of the future of the Electronic Revolution; we must not leave anyone behind. We, all nations, have the tools today via mass communications to spread facts and inform The People. Education, education, education and more education. 

Try to imagine how such bitterly contested issues, threatening civil-war and the break-up of The United Kingdom, might be resolved at a global scale. Say - sharing out food, water and energy supplies. We need Intelligent, well informed Cooperation. 

7) Foodtubes: The world wastes about half the food that is produced. A large percentage of people go hungry - even in the USA where millions rely on food-banks and food-stamps. Doh! We need a cheap, green, clean, global distribution system. There is a prize-winning proposal for such a system, The Transport Internet and Foodtubes. It is not difficult to install, in self-sustaining, profitable, 100 km loops that interlink and make a global network. Get building it now! 

8) Exploration and vision: Man and Woman Kind has always been nomadic explorers, driven by curiosity and the need for adventure. We have pretty much covered The Earth, so we now need to Boldly-Go as Star-Trek exhorts us to. Humans cannot thrive in finite boundaries and closed horizons. Governments MUST offer exploration - of the oceans, the solar-system and beyond. It is happening and we need far more of the visionaries empowered to expand our reach. Keep at it! 

9) What will become of us? I have sketched out what the world will be like when all these good things are in place. We have a great future life ahead of us. When I wrote the lighthearted book, AD 2516-After Global Warming, ten years ago, none of the futuristic innovations that my heroes enjoy existed. Brian Aldiss dubbed me "That distinguished futurist". I will have to write another future-scope book to live up to his description; as much of those predictions are now history. Now, already, much of what I forecast exists. My futuristic visions of 500 years ahead were not futuristic enough. The electronic and scientific advances are racing ahead of all expectations. We do have a wonderful future. It needs visionary governments to allow the human-race to create that future in peace.  

If you are gloomy, a pessimist, and shun celebrations and Pray for the Apocalypse - I have also catered for the dark side of our damned souls in my book The Wisdom of Alice Whitaker. As the ice caps melt, despite Trump's personal veto on global-warming, our coastal margins flood, five billion souls are displaced and 90% of us die. It is grimly satisfying. There is even a grisly murder among the survivors. Doom, doom, doom. It is a good read and is based on sound science. If we don't achieve Intelligent Cooperation, it could, in fact it will, happen. 

UK POLITICS

NICK ROBINSON - BBC POLITICAL COMMENTATOR writes: 

Are you struggling to follow the "crisis" engulfing the Lib Dems over the Lord Rennard saga? Help is at hand with our brief quiz.

Who took the Liberal Democrats from being a small party of opposition to a large-ish party of government?
Trick question. You thought the answer was Nick Clegg but the answer is, in fact, Chris Rennard - at least it is in the eyes of many of those defending him. The former party chief executive is credited with being the election winning mastermind who transformed the party's fortunes long before Mr Clegg had even left his comfy Eurocrat job in Brussels.
That's why so many of Rennard's generation are willing to back him whilst most younger people in the party aren't. That's part of where the party's problems stem from.
Who is accused of behaving like the North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, the Ku Klux Klan and a witch burner at the Salem witch trials?
Sorry, another trick. The answer this time is Nick Clegg and not Lord Rennard. His supporters feel rather strongly that their friend is the victim of a terrible misjustice - the equivalent of a character lynching, or show trial.
Who is in charge of the Liberal Democrat party?
This time it's neither Nick Clegg or Chris Rennard. In fact, the answer is no-one in particular. The decision about who is a Liberal Democrat peer is one for the Lib Dem peers - many of them close allies and long life friends of Lord Rennard.
Who sits on the party's policy-making machinery is one for, you guessed it, the members of that committee - the Federal Policy Committee.
The issue of who faces disciplinary procedure is one for the Regional Parties Committee. You see this party is democratic or, as Mr Clegg puts it in public "not a sect" (or, as his allies put it in private, "a bloody nightmare").

PDF download Click here for a larger version of the party structure chart from Helena Morrisey's 2013 report into Lib Dem processes and culture._[3.1mb]
Look, let's get back to what really matters - what did Lord Rennard actually do?
Oh dear this really is proving tricky. It's either: A) a pattern of sexual harassment and abusing his position of power or: B) invading the personal space of women in a way which left them feeling uncomfortable or: C) Nothing at all.
Or to put it more crudely, Lord Rennard's accusers say he approached them and sometime touched them in a way they hated.
His legal adviser says he denies touching anyone whilst one of his allies says it was just (his emphasis not mine) a hand on a leg through clothing.
So, wouldn't a simple apology solve everything?
No. It could be a disaster for Nick Clegg and Lord Rennard. Lord Rennard would have to apologise for something he insists he never did and fears that would be followed by efforts to drive him out of the party and parliament. It would mean that Nick Clegg would be faced by the resignation of people from all his key party committees who would refuse to sit in the same room as his Lordship.
So, what's the best answer then?
Nick Clegg hopes to persuade party activists to investigate Lord Rennard for bringing the party into disrepute which prolongs the process yet further, but takes it out of the headlines.

Article written by Nick Robinson Nick Robinson Political editor

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