In 2002, the high-profile kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, a fourteen-year-old girl from Salt Lake City, gripped the nation.
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Following Smart’s kidnapping, efforts to find her and her abductor gained worldwide attention.
Smart blames pornography for contributing to Mitchell’s attacks on her. “And then I remember he would just sit and look at it, and talk about these women, and when he was done, he would turn to me and be like ‘now, we’re going to do this.’ It just led to him raping me more, more than he already did, which was a lot”.
The above video was posted on Friday by the anti-porn group Fight the New Drug.
“All I know is that pornography made my living hell worse”, she said in the five minute clip.
She said: ‘I witnessed firsthand just how damaging it is’.
“Looking at pornography wasn’t enough for him”, she continued. Having sex with his wife after he looked at pornography, it wasn’t enough for him. “He just always wanted more”. And he said oh I have something and I’m going to show it to you.
Elizabeth Smart is speaking out about pornography, saying in a newly released video that the horrors of her abduction at the age of 14 were greatly compounded by her kidnappers’ use of pornographic material. (DOUGLAS C. PIZAC/AP) Elizabeth Smart is now a child safety activist as the director of her own foundation.
Mitchell – who tried to kidnap two other girls, including Elizabeth’s cousin, during her captivity – has since been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Smart says, following her mother’s advice, she determined to live a happy life.
The American Psychological Association (APA), which oversaw the creation of DSM-5, says there have been too few studies into whether the conditions exist and can be diagnosed for them to be included.
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A U.S. study in the Behavioural Sciences Journal claims that watching porn causes changes in the brains of people suspected of having compulsive sexual behaviour (CSM) disorders that resemble those in drug addicts when they take narcotics.
