Ryanair and pornography

Ryanair, a european airline company known for cheap airline tickets, just announced that they will provide a new in-flight app that will allow passengers to view pornography during flights. Customers could simply log into a Ryanair app using their iPads or smartphones and then pay to gamble, play games or view sex scenes.

As a professional airline business, Ryanair's decision to promote pornography is a surprise to me. It is not professional for a CEO or employee of any company to view pornography while at work and it certainly wouldn't be professional to provide pornographic material for the employee break room. Providing pornography on its flights will degrade Ryanair's professional integrity as well as its public image.

Pornography is a degrading business for both men and women. It glorifies violence and abuse of women and casts us as a human race in a role less than that of the animals- for animals mate to reproduce in response to their natural urges. What the pornography industry distributes is an image of sex which is anything but natural. It is not reflective of how kind, successful, civilized people show affection and love and it certainly is no reflection of how a man in love truly treats his partner. Instead, pornography casts men in the role of soulless, hungry animals without any modicum of self-restraint and women in the role of play things, slaves, who must not only endure some of the worst forms of abuse but act as if they truly enjoy it.

The truth is that many pornography workers have sexually transmitted infections, drug and alcohol addictions, massive debt, depression, panic attacks, and chronically low self esteem. Women in the pornography and sex trafficking industries experience physical and sexual abuse routinely as a part of their job in ways that are not only emotionally damaging but often physically damaging as well. The aggressive and unnatural sex they participate in often leads to severe damage of a woman's reproductive system. Sexually Transmitted Infections are a frequent problem for sex workers. The profession puts women in situation where they are at high risk for developing gynecological and urinary problems. The multiple sex partners, the high likelihood of sexually transmitted diseases, and anatomy of a women's urological system makes urinary tract and bladder infections a serious concern. Lack of protection and contraction of HIV/AIDS, herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, and other STI's drastically increase the chances of devoloping cervical cancer. Far from uncommon is a prolapsed uterus- caused by the damage of repeated, rough, hard sex. The muscles and tissues which hold the uterus in a womens's abdominal cavity are torn and weakened to the point that the uterus may actually fall down through the vaginal opening. Infections, hemorrhoids, and herniation involving the bladder and rectum are all possible complications.

Pornography is not glamorous. It is not a respectable industry. To protect the future of our society, we can not condone in any way the principles of violence, abuse, degradation, and objectification of self and fellow human beings. For your husband or wife, your children, your sacred honor, and the future of your country, please stand against pornography. Keep it out of our homes and away from our children.

For more information, including peer reviewed research, please visit the Pornography Harms website.

To participate in the effort to keep pornography off of Ryanair- and far away from other airlines, please go here to send a message to the Ryanair leaders.