Scorn for porn: from the Internet to the classroom, purveyors of porn are targeting our children. Americans must defend themselves and their families against this culture-destroying onslaught. (Book Review).

Protecting Your Child In an X-Rated World, by Frank York and Jan LaRue (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers), 307 pages, paperback, $12.99.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope

For proof of how pornography destroys those who embrace it, look no further than the pathetic example of actor Bob Crane. Starring in the 1960s' sitcom Hogan's Heroes, Crane played the role of the witty Colonel Hogan, beloved by millions of American TV viewers who enjoyed watching Hogan and his subordinates comically outsmart their Nazi captors every week.

But as is too often the case with Hollywood's finest, Crane, in real life, was morally bankrupt -- a side of Crane that, based on the reviews, writer/director Paul Schrader accurately portrays in his recent biopic Auto Focus.

According to Salon.com's Stephanie Zacharek, when Crane's murdered body was found on June 29, 1978, "hours and hours' worth of pornographic videotape (were found] documenting his sexual encounters with a seemingly endless number of women...." Using his friend John Carpenter to help him videotape his sexual exploits, Crane became completely obsessed with his salacious proclivity, allowing his career and family life to fall apart. Moreover, Crane's preoccupation with debauchery quite possibly contributed to his untimely death. (Many believe that Crane somehow provoked his partner in perversion, Carpenter, who then dealt the actor several lethal blows to the head. Carpenter, however, was acquitted of the crime.)

Pathway to Perversion