Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, April 28th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

The New York Times is profiling of movement called fictosexuals.

These are people who consider themselves married to a fictional character,

whether a doll, a character in a video game, or a similar person.

One person who married a doll wants us to know that as artificial intelligence and robotics

allow for more profound interactions with the inanimate,

the number of fictosexuals is likely to increase.

In other news, Google has launched an inclusive language function that warns writers to avoid certain words and phrases that may not be inclusive to all readers.

It will prompt you to change mankind to human kind.

And policeman to police officer, for example.

I wonder if one day I will be prompted to change same-sex marriage to marriage equality and sex change operation to

gender affirmation therapy as such euphemisms normalize a personal truth culture.

Speaking of normalizing behavior, once considered immoral, my hometown Dallas Morning News

informs us that a local town's embrace of

LGBTQ pride will show us how to do things right as a perfect example of community leaders

looking farther down the road than how to get a few books banned from the library.

As the NFL draft approaches tonight, Yahoo Sports tells us about a tight end who could be the

first NFL player with same-sex parents, and celebrity Megan Fox reports that her transgender, brave child child has chosen this journey for a reason.

The so-called sexual revolution could be dated to 1953 when Hugh Hefner began popularizing and normalizing pornography.

In 1983, videotape moved films, including pornography, out of theaters, and into private homes.

In the late 1990s, pornographic films began to be distributed on DVD.

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