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Pamela Anderson speaks out against porn, calls it a 'public hazard' that's for 'losers'

By Wade Sheridan
Actress Pamela Anderson attends PETA's 35th anniversary party at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on September 30, 2015. Anderson has written about the dangers of pornography in a new op-ed for the Wall-Street Journal. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
1 of 2 | Actress Pamela Anderson attends PETA's 35th anniversary party at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on September 30, 2015. Anderson has written about the dangers of pornography in a new op-ed for the Wall-Street Journal. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Iconic sex symbol Pamela Anderson has spoken out about the dangers of porn in a new op-ed published in the Wall-Street Journal.

The piece entitled "Take the Pledge: No More Indulging Porn," penned by the former Playboy model alongside rabbi-counselor Shmuley Boteach, was published Thursday and warns about how porn can ruin lives and relationships.

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"If anyone still had doubts about the addictive dangers of pornography, Anthony Weiner should have put paid to them with his repeated, self-sabotaging sexting," the article begins, referencing the recent sexting scandal involving U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.

"From our respective positions of rabbi-counselor and former Playboy model and actress, we have often warned about pornography's corrosive effects on a man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father," the pair continue. "This is a public hazard of unprecedented seriousness given how freely available, anonymously accessible and easily disseminated pornography is nowadays."

"How many families will suffer? How many marriages will implode? How many talented men will scrap their most important relationships and careers for a brief onanistic thrill? How many children will propel, warp-speed, into the dark side of adult sexuality by forced exposure to their fathers' profanations?"

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Anderson and Boteach then go on to call millennials "the crack babies of porn" before offering a solution of sorts to pornography that includes opening up an "honest dialogue" about porn and starting a "sensual revolution."

"The sensual revolution would replace pornography with eroticism—the alloying of sex with love, of physicality with personality, of the body's mechanics with imagination, of orgasmic release with binding relationships. In an age where public disapproval is no longer an obstacle to personal disgrace, we must turn instead to the appeal of self-interest," they write.

"Simply put, we must educate ourselves and our children to understand that porn is for losers—a boring, wasteful and dead-end outlet for people too lazy to reap the ample rewards of healthy sexuality."

Despite her newfound distaste for pornography, Anderson posed nude in the January/February issue of Playboy, the final time the magazine would feature nudity.

The actress is set to appear in the upcoming Baywatch remake starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron that's due in theaters May 19, 2017.

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