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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Non-sequitir argument and quite ridiculous. Murder is an act as is theft. Murder is the Commission of the most egregious forms of assault and battery. To equate watching porn with a potential future criminal act is akin to saying because I collect guns I might murder someone.
Posturing that will accomplish nothing.
Instead of trying to close Pandora’s box, why not investigate the actual crimes that are occurring?
Or fast food, or soda, or driving...
This is the right wing version of Bloomberg.
If I hire you to have sex with a Prostitute and film it, its against the law. If I hire a prostitute to have sex with you, film it, transfer it to DVD, sell it as “Adult” entertainment, its all perfectly legal. What?
Both infidelity AND decreased erectile function ??
At the same time?
Possibly not in the same individual.
How the hell does reading Playboy or an X-rated or pornographic movie while jerking off forbidden by the Constitution? Better do that then roam the streets looking to rape someone. What the hell is wrong with you? What a man or woman does in their own home is their business not yours or mine or anyone else’s. In what way does porn attack the family anyway?
Watching pornography is also an act. So is creating it. Therefore, nonsequitur not demonstrated, since it follows.
It is not the same as owning weapons whatsoever; that is a red herring.
You can have my porn when you take
it from my cold, orange hands.
This is a state resolution, not the Constitution.
And as far as the Constitution goes, it was made solely for a moral and religious people and is inadequate to governing those who are not, per one of its framers.
In what way does porn attack the family? It illustrates and performs sex outside a family structure. That is why the communists (whose doctrine is “abolition of the family”) wanted it to proliferate.
So before asking what is “wrong” with others, look to oneself.
Hogwash!
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
LOL, that post made me spit my drink!
I don’t know anyone who isn’t infected with something or who hasn’t had an abortion.
Take an English class. A non-sequitur can either result in something turning out to be true or not. So watching pornography may or may not result in the commission of a crime, whereas murder and theft are the commissions of a crime. Glad to know you endorse the tactics of the left in legislating personal behaviors and thoughts based on your own beliefs and view of morals.
And people also forget that the so-called porn “actors” are victims too. They’re someone’s sons and daughters and not just some disposable people to be used, ruined, and thrown away.
It’s despicable.
It is my understanding, though I admit I do not know all that much about the literature on the subject, that excessive masturbation is harmful as it inclines men to do just that, masturbate and not seek out wives or relationships. If true it might be very harmful to young men. The supposed proof of this is the development of an entire generation of young men in Japan who have lost interest in real women, preferring porn and rather weird porn at that.
By the same token, though it seems to get a lot less attention, female written porn seems to incline women to unrealistic expectations of drama and relationship excitement that will not be present in the real world. The supposed proof of that is many porn-novels (50SoG,Twilight) that are supposedly most popular with middle aged women, which are also the people most intent upon blowing up their marriages. Not sure who well this correlation proves causality.
I suppose in older folks past child bearing years it really is not an issue, as what does it matter? Perhaps from a spiritual side it does, but I have no idea on what older widows, unattractive older men are supposed to do.
In any case I believe those are the basic issues raised as to why porn is harmful, but I note no one seems to be looking at the economic side of things. If kids cannot get married until 12~15 years after they reach puberty, well there is going to be some substitute found. Prostitution is not good, hook up culture (one night stands) has been shown to be very harmful to women, making them unable to form lasting long term relationships and no one seems all that happy about massage parlors, which is why I suspect that porn is big, or at least is said to be, relative to 40~50 years ago.
Obscenity laws need to be enforced. It is a lie that such laws are unconstitutional.
There should be no intellectual property protection on anything that is of a prurient nature. None.
The Constitutional purpose for copyright protection is “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”.
Free speech does not require charging money for it.
Get rid of copyright protection and you take away the financial incentive to produce porn.
Nobody really understands the effects of free instantly available porn on society that technology now allows, at least to my understanding. It’s something that hasn’t happened before, at least the ease and convenience part on this massive scale. I have a hard time imagining it is a good thing for society.
Freegards
Good point.
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