Porn Sunday Grid Blog: Introduction
By Brian on May 25, 2005
The guys at XXXChurch.com have been interviewed by Penthouse Magazine, have purchased a booth at porn industry conventions, and had a documentary made about their work by an independent film producer. And now they’re really going out on a limb - they want 200 churches around the country to host National Porn Sunday on October 9, 2005 to get people & churches talking about pornography and to help people who are caught up in pornography.
Man, what a great idea. XXXChurch.com has hosted local Porn Sunday events at a few churches already, including Mars Hill Church in Michigan and Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. And now they’re going national.
And, inspired by (and shamelessly copying) the Pentecost grid blog (see: Technorati, Google, the official site) I’m suggesting a Porn Sunday Grid Blog.
What’s a grid blog?
“A kind of decentralized flash mobbing for the mind, grid blogging is a synchronized guerrilla sharing carried out across a forest of blogs” (Bob Carlton). Participants are encouraged to use a common phrase in the title of all their posts (see below) to allow search engines and aggregators to find all the posts about the topic or event quickly and easily (see the Technorati or Google links above for an example.
Who can participate in a grid blog?
Anyone with a blog.
How do I participate?
Create blog posts with “Porn Sunday Grid Blog:” at the beginning of the title. I’m especially interested in people whose churches are looking into hosting Porn Sunday and those who have signed up to host Porn Sunday. If you’re participating in the grid blog, leave your name & blog URL, church name, and location in the comments below. I’ll maintain a list on this site of all Porn Sunday Grid Blog participatants.
Use the images contained in this post (thanks to the Porn Sunday creative team for the images) freely on your site with appropriate links back here or to http://www.pornsunday.com.
UPDATE: The documentary “Missionary Positions” was made by independent filmmaker Bill Day, not made by a porn director as I initially stated (I’ve corrected the error above). Porn producer Jimmy D made a commercial for xxxchurch.com and appears in the film.
hey brian
you still gonna do this?
if so, you can count on my support . . . and if i post an image of myself for the grid blog . .. . how shall i pose?
andrew Jones | Aug 10, 2005 | Reply
Count us in for the Grid… we’ll be posting more in the coming weeks.
Thanks!
Ben Dubow
Lead Pastor
St. Paul’s Collegiate Church
Ben Dubow | Aug 24, 2005 | Reply
Elton R. writes to DOMAI on nudism and artistic photography:
I was discussing some issues with Pornography with a fellow
nudist on a nude hike. We both concluded that Pornography
represents the Dark side, and beauty the Light side. Faced with a
growing Porn addiction in my early twenties, my mother called me
on it and got me to confess. Actually, it was after that I
realized that I had a problem so I sought answers through prayer.
The answers I got were nudism; nudism was staring me in the face
on a Yahoo search engine
I investigated nudism, and its philosophies run so much counter
to pornography it isn’t even funny. So I adopted it as my own.
Having received the light that our bodies are beautiful, I
couldn’t be entertained by pornography anymore. So the cure for a
pornography addiction is this:
Seek the beauty and the truth about how our bodies really are.
Once in the light, and if you have self respect, Pornography
becomes something that is undesired. Everything is ‘laid bare’ as
far as pornography is concerned. The philosophies of nudism and
naturism: the body is sacred and beautiful as a whole, etc.; are
counter to the philosophy of Pornography: the body is evil.
Pornography is the evil exploitation of nudity and sex, while
Nudism and Naturism are the exact opposites
For pornography to survive, it requires a culture where the
pendulum swings extremely wide between repression of nudity and
sex and permissiveness of sex and the exploitation of nudity. For
pornography to die, a culture has to accept nudity as natural and
beautiful and not seek to exploit it
In my culture, Pornography is resisted on a superhuman level. It
is preached against, yet no attempt is made to find a universal
solution to the problem. In fact, in some instances, the problem
has been made worse. Most people of my culture who change
usually ignore the problem: a desire to see the body as it
actually is. They repress this desire, and in so doing, seek to
repress the desire in others, usually their children. I didn’t.
And I’m blessed that I tackled this problem head on. As a LDS
nudist, I accept my nudity and the nudity of others as a natural
blessed thing: and so much more. Since accepting this truth, the
door has been opened to new, powerful truths for me to learn
DOMAI, although still fantasy, accepts this reality that simple
beauty is an effective treatment for Pornography. If more men who
are of my culture and religious denomination and view pornography
have viewed this site; they would be on the road to recovery. I
don’t know if you understand the significance of your quiet
revolution, but I do.
Sincerely, Elton R
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A response and invitation from photographer Joris Van Daele:
Elton R. said what something close to what I have been thinking
for decades–except that I am not specifically a nudist–probably
more because of my circumstances that any philosophical stance.
During the last 20 years of photographing nudes, and observing
other visual forms of the nude, I have developed a strong feeling
that a love of pornography or an addiction to it, is an symptom
of deprivation–that is, not seeing bodies of people around in a
natural state. We are continually teased by marketers and fashion
designers, yet, we are deprived of seeing the goods–people as
they are. That has become my work, and as a result of letters
like Elton R.’s, my focus grows more intense on the book I am
currently working on– photographs of people in the one setting
where they can be still naturally nude–in their own homes and
apartments.
Joris Van Daele (www.barenakedgallery.com)
Robert | Oct 2, 2005 | Reply