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AddReply(218320,"Getting a computer filter is easy, cheap (or free) and effective","Beth Landau","TA, Israel","07/17/07","Every single Internet service provider offers a filter at little, or no charge. Just call \'em up and request one. They\'ll install it over the phone in a matter of seconds. You\'ll also be provided with a password with which to control the content of the filter. I\'ve got one, it literally blocks 99% of the smut online. Do yourselves all a favor and get one installed right away. You\'ll be glad you did for your family\'s sake.  ");
AddReply(218315,"Treat porn as you would murder","Eric","USA","07/17/07","You said, \"To avoid embarrassing the child, the father can claim that he is taking the measure to guard his own eyes from wandering - and chances are he won\'t be lying, because a whopping percentage of fathers are also secretly hooked on Internet porn.\" You do NOT have to worry about embarrassing the child! Tell them exactly why you\'re screening out porn. Tell them! And if you (the father) have a problem with porn, then seek help. But be honest with your kid(s). Tell them why porn is bad. And, be honest with yourself, because YOU KNOW why porn is bad!\n");
AddReply(218314,"#65","Baffled","","07/17/07","Why in darkness?  What is wrong with seeing the beauty of your beshert in dim light?\n\nI read that some very religious women in a very holy place in Israel have had approval and had breast augmentation because of competition to attract future husbands. Are those meant to be hidden in the dark?");
AddReply(218171,"Haredi Bashing","Levy","Emmanuel","07/17/07","I don\'t pretend to speak for all Haredi Jews, but a majority of us work and pay taxes like everyone else. Many have computers in their homes like we do, (WITH FILTERS) but I can certainly respect someone who doesn\'t. In general, Internet is a big waste of time and bitul Torah, as many rabbis have warned.");
AddReply(218170,"If you don\'t have a computer, how did you get to this blog? ","Bob","Israel","07/17/07","Haredim don\'t need computers cause they live off the government coffers and honest taxpayers who have to wok hard for their parnassa and need computers at home.");
AddReply(218148,"The author is right","Rafi","Jerusalem","07/17/07","The Jewish home survived 4000 years without computers, and they can do so another 4000 years without them. The question is, can they survive with them? Not if they want to stay Jewish. Let the army and the media and businesses have as many computers as they want. Keep them out of our homes! ");
AddReply(218079,"We threw out our computer","Moshe","Betar","07/17/07","I am happier, my wife is happier (since I have more free time now to spend with her) and our children are learning more Torah with hevrutot after school instead of the hours wasted with stupid games. ");
AddReply(217884,"We took your advice","I Feel Freed","Carmel","07/16/07","We downloaded a filter (I asked my wife to do it for me so I wouldn\'t know the code) and now for the first time in ages I can sit down at the computer without the nagging temptation. I recommend it for everyone.");
AddReply(217794,"Ben, is Dante your rabbi?"," "," ","07/16/07","What do Chazal have to say on the matter?");
AddReply(217763,"the best viagra","mystic","Old City","07/16/07","the best viagra and best aprodisiac in marriage is when relations are conducted in holiness and modesty and darkness, relying, not on visual stimulation, but on the Divine marital bond and blessing that never leaves those who trust in Hashem and follow in his paths.  ");
AddReply(217757,"the pathway to Viagra","sex therapist","Maryland","07/16/07","While many men watch pornography to stimulate their sexual excitement with their wives, the opposite is the case. The experience of our clinic and studies have indicate that pornography deadens a husband\'s attraction to his wife, leading him to find satisfaction outside of the marital relationship or forcing him to rely on Viagra and the like. ");
AddReply(217542,"To #41 Join a group for couples with fertility problems"," "," ","07/15/07","I was there too. You need the moral support.");
AddReply(217515,"Dante\'s Inferno","Ben","Jerusalem","07/15/07","Let\'s put things in perspective. I think those who are \"defending\" pornography are not saying it\'s great, just that there are far worse sins. I happened to be reading Dante\'s Inferno recently, and I found it informative that he lists the severity of sins roughly in this order: lust (which would include pornography), gluttony, not giving charity, argumentativeness, laziness, heresy, violence, suicide, blasphemy, usury, sorcery, idol worship, being a corrupt leader, sowing discord, treachery against one\'s own people.");
AddReply(217424,"\"So What?\" It destroyed the Temple, that\'s what! ","Yisrael","Beit El","07/15/07","Last week, Rav Shlomo Aviner, shlita, the brother of Rav Elisha Aviner, wrote in the Machon Meir Shabbat sheet that immodesty was the root of the sexual transgression that destroyed the First Temple. The Gemara describes how the Jewish women would prance around immodestly in the streets of Jerusalem to tempt the men, and everyone knows what that leads to. (Yoma9B) People don\'t have to throw away their computrs, but if parents don\'t install filters they are transgression the Torah prohibition, \"Don\'t put a stumbling block in front of a blind man.\"");
AddReply(217420,"To all Defenders of Porn","Yaacov","French Hill","07/15/07","Why don\'t you all get together and organize a Pornography Parade? Maybe you can join forces with the homosexuals and march together.");
AddReply(217418,"Lead the way!","Mrs. Robertson","St. Pete, FL","07/15/07","Chistians the world over look to the Jewish people to set a holy moral standard for all of us to follow. Don\'t allow the evil of pornography to pollute your holy springs. Stamp the devil\'s agent out of the land. For all of us. May the people of Israel be blessed!");
AddReply(217416,"Zealously stemmed the plague","Yehuda","Kiryat Arba","07/15/07","We learned in this Shabbat\'s portion that we are to uproot idolotry and sexual temptation from our midst. Today the daughters of Midian attack us via the Internet. Rav Elisha and Tzvi Fishman are doing holy work. Shame on yourselves, all of you followers of Zimri!");
AddReply(217412,"J from Nazareth liked looking at women too","Ari","Jerusalem","07/15/07","That\'s why he was kicked out of yeshiva. While traveling with Rabbi Yehoshua ben Prachia, J of Nazareth complained that the innkeeper\'s eyes weren\'t pretty. It is written that Rabbi Yehoshua pushed him away with both hands for his evil preoccupation with looking at women. (Sotah 47a) Raphael - out of this came Christianity - do you still say, \"So what?\"   ");
AddReply(217406,"Wake up Raphael","Yosi","Ramot","07/15/07","No big deal? Look what the Nefesh HaChaim says in Chapter One: \"A man of Israel must understand, know, and establish in his mind and heart that every detail of his deeds, speech, and thoughts, at every second and time, all rise up according to their root source to influence the most exalted worlds. Therefore, when a man entertains an impure, licentious thought in his heart, G-d forbid, he in effect brings a prostitute into the most exalted, celestial Holy of Holies, giving strength to the forces of impurity and evil in this transcendently holy place, to a much greater extent than the impurity caused by Nebuchadnezzar and Titus when they brought a prostitute into the Holy of Holies in the Temple sanctuary on earth.\"\nGuarding our eyes and thoughts is the foundation of everything.");
AddReply(217404,"I became a \"fag\" thru the Internet","Hank","Chicago","07/15/07","");
AddReply(217403,"I agree with Raphael","Abrams","Chevy Chse","07/15/07","Looking at pictures of women is part of becoming a man. Is it better to be over-protective and have boys grow up to be fags? ");
AddReply(217396,"Like father like son","Josh","Beit Shemesh","07/15/07","Perhaps because you read Playboy, your sons like to watch \"pretty women.\" The point is that the Jewishs Peopleare to be a holy people with holy genes, and how can we achieve this with pornography available in our homes for our children to see? ");
AddReply(217377,"So What!","Rafael","Efrat","07/15/07","So what if the kids look at pretty women once in a while. That is the age where they become curious about exploring their own sexuality. I looked at Playboy when I was a kid, and still grew up to have a happy marriage and raise a good (Torah observant) family. This is the least of our problems.");
AddReply(217372,"Confucius says","Ellen","Boston","07/15/07","Those who attack Mr. Fishman are probably the ones with the problem.");
AddReply(217364,"Sin is a reproach to All people-Hashem cannot look ","les","Ayr","07/15/07","upon Any type no matter how small[in the 10 commandments]and to look on a woman with lust is the same as having her![to be judged]The whole world has this problem and a filter needs to be in the mind[not on a pc.]Righteousness is our goal: We are what we consume[spiritually as well]train up a child in the way he should go,ect. Communication is always best served-w/ Hashem first!then with child.Faith believing,an answer will come by prayer/fasting.We will be thankful for an answer from our Great G-d who never sleeps.Thank you Arutz 7 for what we all need to know and care for each other in these matters. shaloam");
AddReply(217352,"á\"ä b\"H inyan: not easy to admit","Esther Sarah Evans","Yerushalayim","07/14/07","b\"H\nIt is not easy to admit that our Chareidi education has somehow fallen short - that it is allegedly effective, but something is lacking. What? - People say this is human nature, and it is. Some say just do without internet. This self-inflicted poverty is a sign of our spiritual poverty. May we manage to regain it speedily in our days.\nMay our Torah education inculcate Torah values in our children and in ourselves that render us impervious to all temptations. \nShavua tov.");
AddReply(217337,"Agree with #42","Yoshi","Givat Zeev","07/14/07","Apparently Mr. Fishman\'s own addictions to sex cause him to see the internet as nothing but a vehicle for pornography. Perhaps he also sees the car as \"a machine that gets us to prostitutes\" and a house as a \"place where illicit sexual relations can be carried out in secret.\"");
AddReply(217322,"#41 Desperate - G-D always wants to help!","Linda Rivera","New York ","07/14/07","See your wife in a different light - as if you had just met her and fallen in love with her and court her to win her love - compliment her and often! Let her know how much you appreciate her and appreciate the things she does. Bring her flowers! Take her on dates and tell her often how much you love her!\n\nOn the weight gain - this is dangerous to health. Look up on the internet about raw and living foods-the way G-D intended! Fast food restaurants, processed foods, foods (and water) loaded with chemicals have caused an obesity epidemic and resultant huge increase in degenerative diseases. Fluoride in water causes cancer, damages teeth and bones and damages the thyroid-which results in weight gain. Soy causes cancer and many serious health problems and damages the thyroid causing weight gain.");
AddReply(217231,"To: (#41) Desperate. Realistic solution","Yosef","Jerusalem","07/13/07","Youre not alone. In fact MOST of us have been in your place from time to time. The question is What do we do about it? \nFirst, Make a resolution not to visit ANY sex site for at least 2 weeks. Take each day-1 day at a time. Prove to yourself that you are in control of your emotions and physical urges. This is what TRUE strength is about. If you slip and fall, dust yourself off and start over.\n2nd, Try to spend more time w/ your wife. Take walks together. Channel all of that tension (fantasies) into your marital relations. Have relations with your spouse as often as Halacha and your wife allows. Try new ideas. Play.\n3rd, Work out twice a week. Weight lifting (for me at least),is ideal. consider martial arts - Kickboxing/ Judo/jujitsu. \n4th, Most importantly, give yourself a mental pat on the back at the end of each sucessful day. \nAll of the above has worked well for me.");
AddReply(217218,"to Desperate","Rescue Team 2","NY","07/13/07","Tell your wife to go on a diet. How dare she get fat!");
AddReply(217217,"to Yosef #42","Ari","Jerusalem","07/13/07","You have to get to know Tzvi. He uses comic exaggeration when he writes to draw attention to things. He doesn\'t mean to actually throw out our computers. It\'s his way of saying it\'s time to start thinking about the problem.");
AddReply(217214,"to Desperate","Rescue Team","Cyberspace","07/13/07","1. Get rid of your computer.\n2. cold mikvah or shower 3X a day\n3. learn Torah themes with your wife to deepen your inner connection\n4. keep the lights off\n5. Rabbi Nachman says that a segula for braking th power of lust is to say out loud \"Shema Yisrael\" 70 times against the impure forces of the 70 nations which embody the sexual urge.\n6. Guard your eyes when you go out to the street.\n7. a bad spirit has floated into your head. It will pass.");
AddReply(217211,"A Silly Idea","Yosef","Yerushalayim","07/13/07","Throwing the computer out of the house will accomplish nothing. The kids will buy magazines. Shut down the magazines, they\'ll go to the beach. Shut down the beaches, they\'ll talk to girls on the street. The sexual urge is so strong because it is the physical manifestation of hashem\'s love, which is infinite. Addiction to anything is bad, but throwing out computers is a reactionary and ridiculous solution. Maybe all telephones should be taken out of the house so that there is no chance that a girl will talk to a boy on one of them.");
AddReply(217209,"Please help!","Desperate","Brooklyn","07/13/07","It\'s summer. The weather is hot, and I don’t have to tell what is going on out on the street. I have been happily married for three years but we haven’t had any children, and maybe out of frustration, my wife has been eating a lot and getting fat. Not real fat, but now I realize how important that side of our relationship has been. I don’t know why but for some reason the past week has been filled with niuf. I can\'t get my mind out of the gutter and i am thinking about this garbage all day long. Maybe its the weather. The point is I can\'t stop keeping my fingers from the mouse and clicking onto old favorites. It has to stop! These thoughts are so powerful.  \nIs there a way to stop them. Are there any extra prayers I can be reciting? Is there so extra type of learning I can take on? What do I do? Someone please help – I am desperate!\n");
AddReply(217194,"Why hang out our dirty laundry for the world to see?","Ester","Haifa","07/13/07","");
AddReply(217160,"I HAVE THE SOLUTION!!!","Yehuda","Yosh","07/13/07","Everyone come to Homesh! Leave your homes and computers. Instead of reading about the news - make it! This Tuesday. See everyone there!");
AddReply(217157,"Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil","Mrs.D","Beit Shemesh","07/13/07","In this case I agree with those who think this matter should not be discussed publicly. It only draws more attention to it and gets more people involved.");
AddReply(217151,"National Emergency","Noam","Petach Tikvah","07/13/07","The Knesset law restricting access to pornography is an indication of the widespread problem that threatens to invade evry home and workplace. Just like the public must be warned to be vaccinated if there is a dangerous flu epidemic, or to refrain from buying fish if a shipment has been contaminated, the public must also be warned about the epidemic of pornography on the Internet, including the supposedly kosher Yahoo and Google sites. Education has always been the best tool against the forces of darkness and it is foolish for rabbis to think that the problem will go away by stick\ning their heads in the sand. They have rabbis in the Shas party and they are the ones who have taken this responsible first step to protect our country\'s youth.");
AddReply(217137,"Exaggerated Worry","Yitzik","Jeruselem","07/13/07","I am quite sure the figures are much less - certainly in religious homes. We installed a filter and our kids complain that they can\'t get into sites without any sex content so that\'s a sign they work. It is a simple effective solution.  ");
AddReply(217126,"ART????? IT\'S SMUT!!","Amichai","Ramot Gimmel","07/13/07","#22 your pseudo intellectual fig leag of \"art\" is transparaent. The Torah forbids straying after one\'s heart and one\'s eyes whether a woman is wearing a tight fitting sweater. a tank top, or less. Ever see a Haredi Jew in an \"art\" museum? This is the reason. Smut is smut.   ");
AddReply(217120,"Don Quixote Syndrome","realist","Framingham ","07/13/07","This is a war you can\'t win. The misuse of the Internet is so widespread you can\'t stop it now unless the Knesset ban is completely and the Supreme Court surely wouldn\'t allow something so Jewish as that, so it is best not to discuss it at all so that innocent people who don\'t know will not become another victim.");
AddReply(217117,"Even when the cats are home","Mother","Efrat","07/13/07","I wondered what my oldest boy was up to when he disappears for hours into his room. Now I am afraid I know. As is things are very glass shattering between us. I don\'t know what to do. ");
AddReply(217116,"We downloaded a filter","Menachem","LA","07/13/07","THank you for the information. My wife brought my attention to this article and said we should do something about it with our boys getting older (14 and 12). Of course, she is right, since I myself am not immune to the temptation. Who possibly could be since it is only a click away? While a parent cannot always control what goes on outside of his house (especially in a town like LA), to everyone who values Judaism, it is our job to guard the sanctity of the Jewish home ");
AddReply(217110,"To #23 - My Opinion Does Count","Eliyahu Ben Tzur","Israel","07/13/07","I actually happen to be an orthodox Rabbi (not practicing any more), so I could find all the sources you mentioned, probably with my eyes closed. It took me many years to realize the heavy influence that the galut and foreign / pagan cultures had on many of even our most esteemed sources (almost all of which were written in the galut.)\n\nBut I guess you wouldn\'t know that since, living in Monsey, you are surrounded by the galut, and probably wish to stay there in both mind and body.");
AddReply(217109,"THE INTERNET IS A HAVEN OF PERVERSE IDEALS NOT JUST WHOLESOME WORTHWHILE IDEALS.","Lion King-Ben David","Kings","07/13/07","A timely article and much appreciated-my children like millions of others have access to these negative features of the internet and peer pressure is what separates children from good parents EXCEPT OUR CHILDREN HAVE THE JEWISH CONNECTION THROUGH ME THEIR FATHER AND OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY--so they have a standard but like most teenagers they are open to adverse opinions because they think they are grown up and open minded BUT THE BLESSING IS THEY HAVE A FATHER FAITHFUL TO THE TORAH STANDARD and if they stray OUR COMMUNITY IS A HAVEN OF SAFE RETURN TO WHAT IS GOOD AND WHOLESOME.\nYou can be the best father and even teach your children age-old moral principles a good standard to live by yet these negative forces will lead them astray eg my two daughters BUT I KNOW THEY WILL RETURN TO OUR MORAL STANDARD TORAH BASED.");
AddReply(217088,"Pornography is in the mind","Mark","Grand Rapids","07/13/07","Everything that the Creator made is beautiful. If He didn\'t ant men to look at women He would not have made them so attractive. Lust is a natural healthy function of life. Without it no one would procreate and mankind would become as extinct as the dinosaurs.  ");
AddReply(217085,"Yasher Koach to Rabbi Aviner","Zev","Lakewood","07/13/07","He who saves even one Jewish soul is like having saved all the world.");
AddReply(217084,"Israel has much more serious problems","Bill Mannings","Forest Grove","07/13/07","like the restockpiled Hizballah and the lack of leadership and the failure of the Left to admit its horrendous mistakes. Overhormoned Internet viewing is but a drop in the bucket.");
AddReply(217081,"It is our job, not someone else\'s ","Father","Baltimore","07/13/07","When I discovered that our 15 year old son was watching pornography I was shocked to think how miserably we had failed to educate him to know the difference bewteen right and wrong. When I mentioned the matter to a good friend at work, he admitted that he had had the same problem with one of his kids, and that I shouldn\'t take it so much to heart because the temptation was simply so great that the best education in the world can\'t prevent it. So upon his advice I had a heart to heart talk with my son, and there wasn\'t a blow up at all. He accepted it quietly with a real look of shame, and I think that\'s what gave him to incentive to stop. Our relationship has been stronger ever since. So I don\'t think a parent should be afraid to talk about the problem straight out. That\'s a part of what it means to be a parent. We shouldn\'t be afraid of our kids. They need us.");
AddReply(217080,"In the merit of Yosef the Tzaddik","Yoni","Har Bracha","07/13/07","May your writing about this #1 spiritual enemy of Israel on the internet be a tikun for all of the damage the intrnet has caused  ");
AddReply(217079,"TALIBAN","M. Friedman","Tampa","07/13/07","Why only throw away the computer? Why not chuck out the TV and radios and newspapers and secular books and make a huge bonfire? Why not move out of our houses altogether and go back to living in the forest?");
AddReply(217076,"to #21 Your opinion doesn\'t count","Avraham","Monsey","07/13/07","What counts is the halachah which clearly states in the strongest of language that masturbation is forbidden. See the Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, 23:1 - if you know how. While you are at it see the Gemara, Niddah 13A. Regarding Bereshit 38, Rashi clearly states that ONANism was their sin (so called after Yehuda\'s son Onan) and the Gemara we mentioned concurs, stated that the verse and the action it describes if refering to wasting one\'s seed in vain.  ");
AddReply(217069,"Who draws the line betw porn and art?","Clifford","Greenwich, Conn","07/13/07","I think you have to define just what you mean by pornography. The accepted understanding of the term is photographic material showing fornication or perverted practices and this certainly is unwholesome to all viewers. But merely erotic or semi-nude pictures don\'t fall into this category and don\'t merit sounding an alarm. Someone can see just as much during a trip to the beach. So if measures are to be taken, whether via filtering devices or legislation, they should deal specifically with adult sites and not automatically ban all photographs of women which many consider an art.  ");
AddReply(217066,"In My Opinion Masturbation Is Not Against The Torah","Eliyahu","Israel","07/13/07","Masturbation is normal, healthy, fun and all boys, religious and non-religious, should be allowed to and even encouraged to do it -- guilt-free.\n\nIf you read the Torah in Genesis 38, you will see it is talking about yibum [Levirate marriage] and not masturbation at all.");
AddReply(217062,"part 3","y","galut","07/13/07","battle but for me every day is a struggle and i have been making progress yet still it isn’t easy so i want to thank you for all of the suggestins you write and the writings you have gathered from great and holy rabbis like rabbi nachman. May hashem bless you.  ");
AddReply(217061,"continution","y","galut","07/13/07","zohar and reb nachman have taught about this horrible transgression.  over the years i have filled my head with very much garbage, i have been viewing porn since i was maybe heaven forbid 11 years old.  over the years i have wasted seen heaven forbid thousands maybe tens of thousands of times.  i was taught by many people surrounding me that it was ok and i fell into their trap.  i have been making great progress and i will never despair and always will keep striving to be a better jew and help others to break their porn addiction becuase i know it truly is a drug and is very addictive.  but i must admit rabbi in the back of my mind i do feal that i have done so much damage over the years that their is no way i can be saved.  I am not giving up and i know young people today are being attacked by the sexual urge only because this is the time of moshiach and the yetzer is fighting its last");
AddReply(217059,"dear rabbi fishman","y","galut","07/13/07","rabbi, i am 22  years old and i am a baal tshuva.  from an early age i was not raised very religious and early on i was exposed to pornography and sexually impure images.  over time i became obsessed with pornography, and later my teens when the internet started become popular, i quickly became addicted to internet porn.  about  two years ago i became a baal tshuvah and have slowly become more and more religious.  about a year ago i stumble across the teachings of rabbi nachman and my life has never been the same.  i am grateful for your PA sight because i know first hand that many young jewish men have become addicted to internet porn and waste seed alot and this is something that many rabbis wont talk abbout.  many jews dont realize the severity of this sin and many jewish friends whom i know view internet porn and waste seed and laugh at me when i try to teach them about what the zoha");
AddReply(217058,"It isn\'t just kids!","Daniel","Atlanta","07/13/07","... and, of course, it isn\'t just a Jewish problem. Many Christians are wrestling with the same response dilemma. However, the problem is acute among the elderly, too, from what I have read. Many otherwise devout older men have been snared by internet porn. This is an area where Jews and Christians can work together to get legislation to require a clean internet, or at least effective ways to block porn. One way would be to require tamper-proof identification of every computer using the internet. Anonymity is the best friend of internet porn.");
AddReply(217055,"Here We Go Again...","Avi","Jerusalem","07/13/07","Another Tzvi Fishman article and his obsession with sex. Throw the computer out of the house? Computers and the internet have done more to bring the geulah than perhaps any single invention in the past 500 years. Those who see it only as a pornography machine unwittingly reveal their true inner selves -- that they are the ones obsessed with sex.");
AddReply(217051,"Thanks","Anonymous","Jerusalem","07/13/07","I read some articles on your blog with interest and see that you are a ba\'al teshuva with a background somewhat similar to mine.  I grew up in the USA in the sixties with all the tuma that goes along with it.  I moved to Israel in the eighties with the goal of studying in a yeshiva and finding myself as a Jew .  Many good things came out of it including a pretty good knowlege of Torah and a wife and seven children and a home in Jerusalem.  But one problem still plagues me and that is looking at adult internet sites.  I have talked to rabbis about it and they generally say just study more Torah or consider the consequences of transgressing.  But it seems to me the problem is much deeper and all those suggestions work only temporarily. That’s why I was so happy to discover your Pornoholics Anonymous and the links on the js site that come with it. B”H, I am going to study it all.");
AddReply(217044,"to #4","Divorced ","N.Y.","07/13/07","You have my sympathy. It happened to me also. ");
AddReply(217041,"Sages watch your words!","Rabbi","Old City","07/13/07","The fact remains that sexual matters are not to be openly discussed, as the Mishna in Chagigah (2:1) makes clear. This has been the policy of the rabbis over the ages. While I realize that Arutz 7 is primarily a news service, its roots are implanted in and watered from the world of Torah. Therefore I seriously question the benefit of airing this matter publically as if it were a debatable issue like anything else.    ");
AddReply(217039,"Both extremes are bad","Hezy","Jerusalem","07/13/07","On the one hand you say use an internet filter which doesnt really work on the other hand you say throw the computer out of the house.\nYou can still use a computer and email without internet just call Bezeq and ask.");
AddReply(217036,"Yasher koach! ","Ari","Jerusalem","07/13/07","Accolades go to Rabbi Elisha Aviner, Tzvi Fishman, and Arutz 7 for dealing with this issue. I\'ve surfed all of the Jewish sites on the net and no one else is addressing this crisis. Keep it up and maybe our sleeping spiritual leadership will wake up to the problem. ");
AddReply(217034,"The problem isn\'t the computer","Shlomo","Jerusalem","07/13/07","The problem is the Internet. I disagree with the Haredim on just about everything, but their ban on the Internet is smart policy. If we hope to preserve the holiness of our children, we should do something similar and fast.  ");
AddReply(217016,"I don\'t look at hard porn, but","Jewish Teenager","Hebrew Academy","07/12/07","I take a look at some pretty ladies almost every night when I am doing my homework, and so do most of my buddies. If it\'s so bad, and if parents and teachers want us to stop then they shouldn\'t let girls come to school wearing tank tops and minis. That\'s what drives us to surfing all over our computers. Who can concentrate on homework when you\'ve been riled up so bad all during the day? ");
AddReply(217012,"#6-7 did you read #4?"," "," ","07/12/07","");
AddReply(217005,"There is also a therapeutic value","Psychologist","Chicago","07/12/07","It is better to look at women than to pinch them or rape them. There are studies that indicate that adult viewing provides an outlet for what would otherwise be anti-social behavior. Maybe if more Israelis supressed their sexual tension through Internet viewing there would be fewer public sex scandals making the headlines every week. ");
AddReply(217003,"Mice will be mice","Mother","Everywhere","07/12/07","You can\'t stop kids from being kids, and you can\'t stop men from being men. There are worse crimes than looking at pictures of pretty women. ");
AddReply(217002,"60-80% seems way to high!","Heshy","Yosh","07/12/07","Where do you get your figures?\nIt is enough of a problem without exxaggerating.");
AddReply(217000,"Ladies Beware!","Abandoned Wife","Israel","07/12/07","I lost my husband to the Internet. For a whole year, I had a funny feeling. Even though he was in the house, he seemed to disappear. He said he was \"working\" on the computer day and night. It turned out he was addicted to Internet porn. It was like he was having an affair with a mistress right under our roof. Unfortunately I found out to late. He was already gone after some other woman  before I could throw the computer out of the house. I threw it out anyway to make sure the same thing didn\'t happen with my kids. Look out!");
AddReply(216998,"Keep Pandora\'s Box Locked!","RK","Ramat Gan","07/12/07","Why talk about these things? First of all, writing about these things in public is already a breach of modesty. Secondly, it arouses curiousity and interest and could lead someone to see what all the fuss is about and end up getting hooked. It\'s just like what happened with the homosexual parade. If the religious world would have kept quiet to begin with, no one would have paid any attention. Instead the whole world was talking about it.");
AddReply(216996,"This is a very severe problem.","Jay Robbins","Cederhurst","07/12/07","I am happy to see it being addressed in a public forum like A7. Also, the proposed law in the Knesset to impose filters on Internet servers is a big step in the right direction. More educators like Rabbi Aviner must also begin to address the issue in a more active, open fashion. The same way that secular schools have sex education classes, there should be Internet education classes in schools as well to warn of the dangers. One of the problems is that the issue is swept under the table by educators. If it were discussed openly, there would be less secrecy about it at home.");
AddReply(216938,"teens have access to computers","terry","vv","07/12/07","not just @ home. in addition to filters, parents should be present in room, & start having those disscussions before they reach teen yrs. as to what is permissable to have on computer & @ what age & what never, & there are other things online that are terrible besides porn(such as anti G-d places) & pictures not appropriate for youngsters of war/terror that will give them nightmares.");

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