Posted on 04/11/2017 9:12:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Arkansas General Assembly has declared that “pornography has created a public health crisis,” leading to a broad “spectrum” of public health “impacts and societal harms.” The Assembly also stated that pornography can increase “the demand for prostitution and the sex trafficking and slavery of children and young adults, primarily girls.”
The Resolution, HR 1042, is an official recognition by the Arkansas government. It is not a law. It reflects the official view of the legislature and a copy of the Resolution is sent to the director of the Department of Health in Arkansas. Similar resolutuions have passed in South Dakota, Utah, and Virginia, and in the State Senate in Tennessee. The Arkansas resolution passed the Assembly on March 28.
Introduced by Rep. Karilyn Brown, the Arkansas resolution in part says, “pornography normalizes violence and abuse of women and children by depicting rape and abuse as if such acts are harmless.… [D]ue to advances in technology and the universal availability of the Internet, the average age of exposure to pornography is currently 11 to 12 years of age.”
Further, exposure to porn may “lead to the hypersexualization of teenagers and even prepubescent children” and “research indicates that pornography is potentially biologically addictive.” …
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To get into your home, it has to originate outside the home, where the attacks on the Free Exercise Clause occur. And where does the Constitution cover that?
… watching this in the privacy of my own home …
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”Adams’ contribution to the Bill of Rights has to be viewed in that context.
— John Adams
Laura Ingraham must be ecstatic
Porn and pot
Her issues
While she has her cocktails
I still like her
False correlation, with all due respect.
And frankly, since masturbation does create a focus on self-gratification (being one of its expressions), it is a contributor to illicit behavior on many levels.
so, if there is no rape or abuse, it’s not pornography ?
it must be erotica ...yeah, that’s the ticket.
(Yes, I read the bill). The rest of the assertions use weasel words.
Whaaa?
You have created a link from masturbation to sex crimes? Please let me know it. I don’t see the connection.
Does eating when hungry lead to food crimes?
What are Laura’s issues with porn and pot? I like her too.
Sex Education was supposed to be the counter to porn. That is how many ‘progressives’ sold it to schools decades ago.
Sort of like the Big Tobacco settlement 2 decades ago was supposed to reduce youth smoking.
I hope this is (sarc) and not a serious question.
Porn destroys a persons connection to reality. The women and men in porn are caricatures of real people and create a lust and desire for something that does not exist in the “real” world.
That lust and desire will not be satisfied in a normal covenantal relationship between a man and a woman, and will eventually cause one or both of them to seek those desires outside of the relationship.
I dont care what the commies goals are.
That is not an excuse to act as if you have some avenue to insert yourself into regulating what people can and cannot look at in the privacy of their own homes.
Restricting someone’s personal freedom to “thwart” communism? That’s a new one.
There are better ways of making porn less enticing to people than by making it insanely enticing to them by making them more curious due to state restrictions.
GOOD GRIEF, why is this country so obsessed with sex?? The VD rates are off the charts, I don’t know anyone who isn’t infected with something or who hasn’t had an abortion.
People, find something else to do!
Isn’t that the same logic the Progs are using on guns?
Me too
No. Especially since porn is one of the Progs’ weapons.
So, its ok if Big Gov rules you... as long as you agree with the rules that they decide are moral or immoral??
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
– John Adams
The government has no business passing a resolution regarding personal behaviors. I’m sure I am in the minority here, but whatever people want to watch or do in their own homes or between themselves is their own business and none of the government’s. If the government wants to pass a public law against various forms of pornography, great, pass it and then defend it in court under free speech provisions. Until then, government should not be in the business of opining on people’s morals.
The spiritual aspect cannot be overlooked. With respect to that, I’m referring to whom Jesus called “the prince of this world” (John 14:30; also 2 Cor 4:4).
Murder, theft et al are personal behaviors. Should a law have been passed versus a resolution?
Exactly. I am just as critical of conservatives trying to legislate and dictate morals as I am of the leftists trying to shame people into their own beliefs.
While it was established for about 180 years that obscene material could be banned in one manner or another, it seems these days that cat is out of the bag. Not saying it is good for people, but how does one get rid of porn? I notice when I go to various news sights that all the click bait ads seem to use scantily clad women in provocative poses as bait, which could be considered soft porn, as the intent is in that direction.
An earlier poster also pointed out another issue: If male visual porn is a problem, so is Female written porn, which apparently dies the same thing for female brains as images do for males. But it does not seem like there is the same outrage for that, yet one could argue those volumes are more harmful, seeing as something like 70 % of divorces are initiated by women. While images may cause males to have unrealistic desires and cause problems with long term relationships, if true, the same is almost certainly true on the female side with their dramatic stores that reality does not live up to.
It may not be ideal state of affairs, but it seems to me one of the main reasons for a lot of out of marriage sex/porn is simply that kids cannot get married until their later 20s, because of the difficulty in getting a reasonable wage to be self supporting. Now if you expect kids in their most “horny” decade to have no sex at all, well that is not going to happen. So they are either going to :A) sleep around, B) masturbate to something resembling porn, C)go to professionals, D) Go to massage parlors that have “happy endings”, E) rape random folks. Those are your choices. One can preach chronic DSB till marriage, but it is a simply fact 99% of men are no built for that and you cannot fault them for that, that is how they were constructed by their creator.
I suppose my real point is that I do not see any good solution to any of these issues, other than getting the economy back to a place where folks can get married out of school, which means higher wages and a reasonable assured path to middle class means.
Pornography is a plague. It contaminates young minds and pollutes their view of what sex should be. It is infiltrating and ripping mariages apart.
I think most men and many women have been in trenches with this tool of Satan at one point or another. It’s everywhere now.
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