The Story of Ted Bundy
Demon Posession and Pornography
The Story of Ted Bundy
Is Pornography Harmless ?
Porn and Sex Offenders
is There a Link ?
over many years…sex offenders.
Pornography has been a major contributor
in the acquisition of their deviation.”
Psychologist at the University of Utah;
Family marital counseling and sexual addiction.
From his Booklet;
“Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children”
and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated
to commit violence. Without exception, every one
of them was deeply involved in pornography
– deeply consumed by the addiction.”
-Ted Bundy’s Final Interview
Fatal Addiction to Pornography
by Dr. James Dobson
that the most common interest among serial killers
is pornography. It’s true.”
-Ted Bundy’s Final Interview
Fatal Addiction to Pornography
by Dr. James Dobson
crimes, the answer is unequivocally, “YES,” but that is
only the tip of the iceberg.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline;
Psychologist at the University of Utah;
Family marital counseling and sexual addiction.
From his Booklet;
“Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children”
and child molesters use pornography both immediately
prior to their crimes and during the actual assault.”
-Silber, M.H., and Pines, A.M.
“Pornography and Sexual Abuse of Women,”
Vol. 10, pp. 857-868, 1984.
porno – will wind up as rapists…. But I just thought
this information to be interesting and worth sharing,
since it even mentions the possible long term effects
on relationships, on families, and even some marriages.
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
to pornography … in terms of having their whole life
consumed by it … Like an alcoholic or a drug addict,
they are looking for ‘that big kick,’ … When the ‘wave’
hits them, nothing can stand in the way of getting
what they want, including sex from a prostitute or
raping a woman.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
With the passage of time, the addicted person required
rougher, more explicit, more deviant, and ‘kinky’
kinds of sexual material to get their ‘highs’
and ‘sexual turn-ons.’ … Being married or in a
relationship with a willing sexual partner did not
solve their problem. Their addiction and escalation
were mainly due to the powerful sexual imagery in their
minds, implanted there by the exposure to pornography.
They often prefer this sexual imagery, accompanied by
masturbation, to sexual intercourse itself.
This nearly always diminished their capacity to love
and express affection … Their sex drive is diverted
to a degree away from their spouse-and the spouse
easily senses this, and often feels very lonely
and rejected.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
tendency to act out sexually the behaviors viewed
in the pornography, including compulsive promiscuity,
exhibitionism, group sex, voyeurism, frequenting massage
parlors, having sex with minor children, rape, and
inflicting pain on themselves or a partner during sex.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
consequence of being addicted to pornography
is not the probability or possibility of committing
a serious sex crime (though this can and does occur),
but rather the disturbance of the fragile bonds
of intimate family and marital relationships.
This is where the most grievous pain, damage,
and sorrow occur. There is repeatedly an interference
with or even destruction of healthy love and sexual
relationships with long-term bonded partners.
If one asks if porn is responsible or causes any
sex crimes, the answer is unequivocally, “Yes,”
but that is only the tip of the iceberg.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
“I also found … that many of my most intelligent
male patients appeared to be most vulnerable-
perhaps because they had a greater capacity to fantasize.”
-Dr. Victor B. Cline is a psychologist
at the University of Utah
the more prone these people are to becoming addicted
to this (pornographic) material.”
–Sgt. Navarro,
investigator of the porno industry
Los Angeles Police Department
Pornography and Demonic Influence ?
Many people have spoke of experiencing trouble with the
spirit world – after repeated and long term involvement with
sexual immorality, pornography and sexual perversions.
Some have even confessed to doing things that they normally
would not have done – while under the influence of “demons”
that drove them to do terrible things after long sessions with
pornographic materials.
Are they just making excuses, or are the evil spirits attracted
to all forms of excessive, degrading sin, especially of the Porno
type ?
such as sexual immorality.”
-Healing Waters; Signs and Symptoms
Doorways to Demons
“It would seem reasonable to argue that
demon possession may be an aetiological
factor in some cases of mental illness.”
-Demon Posession and Mental Illness
Professor Chris Cook
Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Science
University of Kent at Canterbury
who didn’t stick to their post,
abandoning it for other, darker missions.”
(Jude 1:6)(MSG)-BibleGateway
but jailed them….till Judgment Day.”
(2Peter 2:4)(MSG)-BibleGateway
such as sexual immorality.”
-Healing Waters; Signs and Symptoms
Doorways to Demons
Remember, that according to the Bible, Satan sinned
against God – in order to obtain power and glory for
himself. That is not true of the rest of heaven’s
spirit creatures that rebelled against God.
by materializing human bodies. Since the flood, they
can no longer materialize – so it is very possible that
they are still getting their thrills, by inhabiting
humans today – which some call “demon possession”.
who did not stay within the limits
of authority that God gave them
but left the place where they belonged.”
(Jude 1:6)(NLT)-BibleGateway
…when the sons of God (angels) had come in to the
daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them;
…And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man
was great on the earth, and every imagination of
the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.”
(Genesis 6:4-8)(ASV)-BibleGateway
That was when the sons of God (spirit creatures)
went to the daughters of men and had children by them.”
(Genesis 6:4)(DARBY)-BibleGateway
unnatural offspring of the daughters of mortal men
in cohabitation with” the sons of god” (angels).
This utterly unnatural union, violating God’s created
order of being, was such a shocking abnormality as to
necessitate the worldwide judgment of the flood.”
-Unger’s Bible Dictionary
(pg. 788)- under “Nephilim”
until finally they spread all over the earth.
Some of their daughters were so beautiful
that supernatural beings came down and married
the ones they wanted. The children of the
supernatural beings who had married these women
became famous heroes and warriors. They were called
Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time…”
(Genesis 6:1,2,4)(CEV)-BibleGateway
taken over – or posessed with some type of lust that he could not
control – after many years of addiction to Pornography. He never
mentioned spirits or demons, yet he described them quite aptly.
like to rape and murder all of his victims, Ted
Bundy described it this way –
being possessed by something so awful and alien.
It was like coming out of some horrible trance or dream.
To wake up in the morning and realize what I had done
…absolutely horrified me. There is no way to describe
the brutal urge to do that, and once it has been
satisfied, or spent, and that energy level recedes,
I became myself again. Basically, I was a normal person.
Pornography snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago.”
-Ted Bundy’s Final Interview
Fatal Addiction to Pornography
by Dr. James Dobson
with demons of homosexuality.”
–Dr. Rebecca Brown,
“Becoming A Vessel of Honor
In The Master’s Service”. p. 226
all of the characteristics common to purported
cases of demonic possession.”
-Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical
and Paranormal Experience, pp. 190-192
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen
New York: HarperCollins, 1991
cannot fully explain every situation reported
to be a case of demonic possession….
one cannot dismiss the possibility that demonic
possession is a real and true phenomenon.”
-Demonic Possession
Melissa A. Bromwell
demon possession may be an aetiological
factor in some cases of mental illness.”
-Demon Posession and Mental Illness
Professor Chris Cook
Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Science
University of Kent at Canterbury
His Fatal Addiction to Pornography
granted an interview to psychologist James Dobson
just before he was executed on January 24, 1989.
In that interview, he described the agony of his
addiction to pornography. Bundy goes back to his roots,
explaining the development of his compulsive behavior.
He reveals his addiction to hard-core pornography
and how it fueled the terrible crimes he committed.
“dirty magazines” in a dump near his home. He was
instantly captivated by them. In time, Bundy became
more and more addicted to violent images in magazines
and videos. He got his kicks from seeing women being
tortured and murdered. When he tired of that, there was
only one place his addiction could go – from fantasy to
reality.
learned to lure women into his car by various forms
of deception. He would put a cast on his arm or leg,
then walk across a university campus carrying several
books. When he saw an interesting coed standing or
walking alone, he’d “accidentally” drop the books near
her. The girl would help him gather them and take them
to his car. Then he would entice her or push her into
the vehicle where she was taken captive. After he had
molested the girl and the rage of passion had passed,
she would be killed and Bundy would dump her body in a
region where it would not be found for months. This went
on for years.
twenty-eight young women and girls in acts too horrible
to contemplate. He was finally convicted and sentenced
to death for killing a twelve-year-old girl and dumping
her body in a pigsty. After more than ten years of appeals
and legal maneuvering, a judge gave the order for Bundy’s
execution. That week, he asked an attorney to call me
and request that I come to Florida State Prison for
a final interview.
outside the prison. Teenagers carried signs saying
“Burn, Bundy, Burn,” and “You’re Dead, Ted.”
Also in the crowd were more than 300 reporters who had
come to get a story on the killer’s last hours,
but Bundy wouldn’t talk to them. He had something
important to say, and he believed the media couldn’t be
trusted to report it accurately. Therefore, I was invited
to bring a camera crew to record his last comments
from death.
steel doors and metal detectors so sensitive that my tie
tack and the nails in my shoes were enough to set off
an alarm. Finally, I reached an inner chamber where Bundy
and I were to meet. He was brought in, strip-searched,
and then surrounded by six prison guards while he talked
to me. Midway through our conversation, the lights
suddenly went dim.
and they will come back on.”
The prisoner knew that his executioners were testing
the electric chair that would take his life the next
morning.
He felt he owed it to society to warn of the dangers
of hard-core pornography and to explain how it had
led him to murder so many innocent women and girls.
took possession of him when he had been drinking.
His craze to kill was ALWAYS inflamed by violent
pornography.
that occurred just seventeen hours before Ted was led to
the electric chair.
You are scheduled to be executed tomorrow morning at 7:00,
if you don’t receive another stay. What is going through
your mind? What thoughts have you had in these last
few days?
or I’m in control of or have come to terms with.
It’s a moment-by-moment thing. Sometimes I feel very
tranquil and other times I don’t feel tranquil at all.
What’s going through my mind right now is to use the
minutes and hours I have left as fruitfully as possible.
It helps to live in the moment, in the essence that we
use it productively. Right now I’m feeling calm,
in large part because I’m here with you.
many women and girls.
antecedents of the behavior that we’ve seen? You were
raised in what you consider to be a healthy home.
You were not physically, sexually or emotionally abused.
situation. I grew up in a wonderful home with two
dedicated and loving parents, as one of 5 brothers and
sisters. We, as children, were the focus of my parent’s
lives. We regularly attended church. My parents did not
drink or smoke or gamble. There was no physical abuse or
fighting in the home. I’m not saying it was “Leave it to
Beaver”, but it was a fine, solid Christian home.
and accuse my family of contributing to this.
I know, and I’m trying to tell you as honestly as
I know how, what happened.
home, in the local grocery and drug stores, softcore
pornography. Young boys explore the sideways and byways
of their neighborhoods, and in our neighborhood, people
would dump the garbage. From time to time, we would come
across books of a harder nature – more graphic.
This also included detective magazines, etc., and I want
to emphasize this. The most damaging kind of pornography
– and I’m talking from hard, real, personal experience –
is that that involves violence and sexual violence.
The wedding of those two forces – as I know only too well
– brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe.
at that time?
that people believe what I’m saying. I’m not blaming
pornography. I’m not saying it caused me to go out and
do certain things. I take full responsibility for all
the things that I’ve done. That’s not the question here.
The issue is how this kind of literature contributed
and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior.
process. Then, at a certain time, it is instrumental
in crystallizing it, making it into something that is
almost a separate entity inside.
own fantasy life, with printed material, photos, videos,
etc., and then there was the urge to take that step over
to a physical event.
I led a normal life, except for this one,
small but very potent and destructive segment
that I kept very secret and close to myself.
as a kind of addiction, you look for more potent,
more explicit, more graphic kinds of material.
Like an addiction, you keep craving something which is
harder and gives you a greater sense of excitement,
until you reach the point where the pornography only goes
so far – that jumping off point where you begin to think
maybe actually doing it will give you that which is just
beyond reading about it and looking at it.
actually assaulted someone?
inhibitions against criminal and violent behavior.
That had been conditioned and bred into me from my
neighborhood, environment, church, and schools.
to do it was wrong. I was on the edge, and the last
vestiges of restraint were being tested constantly,
and assailed through the kind of fantasy life that was
fueled, largely, by pornography.
Do you remember the decision to “go for it”?
Do you remember where you decided to throw caution
to the wind?
the sensation of reaching that point where I knew
I couldn’t control it anymore. The barriers I had
learned as a child were not enough to hold me back
from seeking out and harming somebody.
a building up of this destructive energy. Another fact
I haven’t mentioned is the use of alcohol.
In conjunction with my exposure to pornography,
alcohol reduced my inhibitions and pornography eroded
them further.
what was the emotional effect? What happened in the days
after that?
about. Reliving it through talking about it is difficult
to say the least, but I want you to understand what
happened. It was like coming out of some horrible trance
or dream. I can only liken it to (and I don’t want to
overdramatize it) being possessed by something so awful
and alien, and the next morning waking up and remembering
what happened and realizing that in the eyes of the law,
and certainly in the eyes of God, you’re responsible.
To wake up in the morning and realize what I had done
with a clear mind, with all my essential moral and
ethical feelings intact, absolutely horrified me.
that, and once it has been satisfied, or spent, and that
energy level recedes, I became myself again. Basically,
I was a normal person.
like me, whose dangerous impulses are being fueled,
day in and day out, by violence in the media in its
various forms – particularly sexualized violence.
I wasn’t a pervert in the sense that people look at
somebody and say, “I know there’s something wrong with
him.” I was a normal person. I had good friends.
I led a normal life, except for this one, small but very
potent and destructive segment that I kept very secret
and close to myself.
violence in the media, particularly pornographic violence,
are not some kind of inherent monsters.
We are your sons and husbands. We grew up in
regular families. Pornography can reach in and snatch a
kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home
20 or 30 years ago. As diligent as my parents were,
and they were diligent in protecting their children,
and as good a Christian home as we had, there is no
protection against the kinds of influences that are
loose in a society that tolerates….
reporters that wanted to talk to you, and you asked me
to come because you had something you wanted to say.
You feel that hardcore pornography, and the door to it,
softcore pornography, is doing untold damage to other people
and causing other women to be abused and killed
the way you did.
believe what John Q. Citizen thinks about this,
but I’ve lived in prison for a long time now,
and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit
violence. Without exception, every one of them was
deeply involved in pornography – deeply consumed by the
addiction. The F.B.I.’s own study on serial homicide
shows that the most common interest among serial killers
is pornographers. It’s true.
that influence?
not just for me, but for a lot of other people
– victims and families. There’s no question that it
would have been a better life. I’m absolutely certain
it would not have involved this kind of violence.
that are being asked, one would be, “Are you thinking
about all those victims and their families that are so
wounded? Years later, their lives aren’t normal.
They will never be normal. Is there remorse?”
but through God’s help, I have been able to come to the
point, much too late, where I can feel the hurt and the
pain I am responsible for. Yes. Absolutely! During the
past few days, myself and a number of investigators have
been talking about unsolved cases – murders I was involved
in. It’s hard to talk about all these years later,
because it revives all the terrible feelings and thoughts
that I have steadfastly and diligently dealt with –
I think successfully. It has been reopened and I have
felt the pain and the horror of that.
even if they don’t believe my expression of sorrow,
will believe what I’m saying now; there are those loose
in their towns and communities, like me, whose dangerous
impulses are being fueled, day in and day out, by violence
in the media in its various forms – particularly
sexualized violence. What scares me is when I see what’s
on cable T.V. Some of the violence in the movies that
come into homes today is stuff they wouldn’t show in
X-rated adult theatres 30 years ago.
especially when children are unattended or unaware that
they could be a Ted Bundy; that they could have a
predisposition to that kind of behavior.
old Kimberly Leach. I think the public outcry is greater
there because an innocent child was taken from a
playground. What did you feel after that?
Were they the normal emotions after that?
It’s too painful. I would like to be able to convey
to you what that experience is like, but I won’t be able
to talk about that. I can’t begin to understand the pain
that the parents of these children and young women that
I have harmed feel. And I can’t restore much to them,
if anything. I won’t pretend to, and I don’t even expect
them to forgive me. I’m not asking for it. That kind of
forgiveness is of God; if they have it, they have it,
and if they don’t, maybe they’ll find it someday.
inflicted upon you?
I won’t kid you. I deserve, certainly, the most extreme
punishment society has. And I think society deserves to
be protected from me and from others like me. That’s for
sure. What I hope will come of our discussion is that
I think society deserves to be protected from itself.
As we have been talking, there are forces at loose in
this country, especially this kind of violent pornography,
where, on one hand, well-meaning people will condemn the
behavior of a Ted Bundy while they’re walking past a
magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send
young kids down the road to being Ted Bundys. That’s the
irony.
which is what people want with me. There is no way
in the world that killing me is going to restore those
beautiful children to their parents and correct and
soothe the pain. But there are lots of other kids playing
in streets around the country today who are going to be
dead tomorrow, and the next day, because other young
people are reading and seeing the kinds of things that
are available in the media today.
conversation was recorded.”
Dr. Dobson’s interview with Ted Bundy
Life on the Edge, Dr. James Dobson (1995)
Word Publishing, Nashville, Tennessee