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“Selling sex is one of the oldest businesses in the world and right now, business has never been better. One of the biggest cultural changes in the United States over the last 25 years has been the widespread acceptance of sexually explicit material, pornography.
In the space of a generation, a product that was once available only in the back alleys of big cities has gone corporate, delivered now directly into homes and hotel rooms by some of the biggest companies in the US. It's estimated that Americans now spend somewhere around $10 billion a year on adult entertainment, which is as much as they spent attending professional sporting events, buying music, or going out to the movies. Consumer demand is so strong, it's seduced some of America's biggest brand names, and companies like General Motors, Marriott and Time Warner are now making millions selling erotica to America.”
(CBS, 60 Minutes November 23, 2003)

Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

cinepro wrote:
And while the "boiling frog" metaphor is popular and somewhat poetic, it sadly isn't true :(

The Sugar Beet wrote:Frog-Boiling Science Project Condemned by Seminary
By Chris Giauque

BURLEY, ID—Eleventh-grader Jonah Parson’s recent science project has provoked controversy amongst local LDS seminary faculty. Titled “Amphibian Behavior: A Study of Thermal Reactivity,” the project has been called “Satan-inspired nonsense” and worse and has even reportedly prompted a petition calling for Parson’s excommunication.

Explaining how the arguing got started, Jonah said, “I was sitting in seminary one day thinking about what I was going to do for my project. My teacher, Brother Simmons, was talking about immorality or bad music or something and started in on that old story about how frogs will jump out when you put them into boiling water, but if you put them in room-temperature water and slowly heat it up, they’ll stay in until they boil to death. I got all excited by that, because I thought that would be a great project. I could actually test that story and see if it was true.”

So Jonah got in touch with Diana Williams, a local biology professor, who was able to help him acquire frogs and perform the tests. He claims he was shocked by the results. “Not a single frog boiled,” he says. “They all jumped out before the water got that hot. The highest temperature any of them reached was 80 degrees Celsius, and that was out of 50 trials.”

He took his results to Dr. Williams, who believed he must have made a mistake and repeated the experiments herself. “Sure enough,” she said, “we saw an inverse linear correlation between the temperature and the amount of time before the frog leapt out, which appeared to be totally independent of the starting temperature. It was fascinating. This young man has a great future ahead of him in science.”

Excited by his discovery, Jonah entered his project in the school science fair and unwittingly sparked an intense controversy. According to Alma Heywood, local seminary president, “I personally was very bothered and concerned for the welfare of young Jonah’s soul when I heard what he had done. He was attempting to use his so-called science to disprove a principle we all know to be true, thus potentially providing a rationalization for seeing PG-13 movies, reading comic books, drinking caffeine, or committing any number of other gateway sins. I had to take action before I, like that selfsame frog, found myself in a world ruled by so-called science, with no place for blind, devoted faith.”

Heywood called an emergency meeting of the seminary council, where it was decided that the next month of lessons would be devoted to discussions of how to see through the “false theories and ideas of men.” Additionally, students were to be “strongly encouraged to avoid exposing themselves to dangerous influences” at the science fair. Heywood said those are the only actions that were decided upon.

Jonah, however, claims he has received angry e-mails and phone calls calling him an apostate, a Darwinist, and even the antichrist. He claims to have found bags of frogs, apparently boiled to death, on his lawn and car. “I’ve even heard rumors that there’s a petition going around seminary calling for me to be excommunicated,” he said. “But I wouldn’t know. It’s been made clear to me that I’m no longer welcome there.”

In the face of this opposition, Jonah says he will remain strong. “I know what I saw. I wanted those frogs to stay in the water as much as anyone. But they didn’t. They just didn’t! They jumped! I’m sorry, but that’s what happened, and I’m not going to lie about it, no matter who gets mad. I will face the consequences without rancor or remorse, like a lamb going to the slaughter.

cinepro wrote:Professor Doug Melton, Harvard University Biology Department, says, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot -- they don't sit still for you."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

In sum, the concern that countries allowing pornography would show increased sex crime rates due to modeling or that adolescents in particular would be negatively vulnerable to and receptive to such models or the society would be otherwise adversely effected has not been vindicated. It is certainly clear from our data and analysis that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims. We have mentioned some possible influential factors.

Porter wrote:If they would just pass out Elder Packer's "For Young Men Only II" it would stop any teen aged Mormon boy from looking at naked girls the same!