A pretty silly remark. Anybody who hasn't been exposed to porn long before he goes off the college hasn't tried to access it.
Why should he start doing so simply because he's at college?
Porn actors are basically paid to have sex in public. How is this different than prostitution? Well, Congress calls it “free speech”.
I’m no libertarian, but I can’t think of any way short of shutting down the Internet that would be an effective way to prevent porno access from those of any age who seek it.
For my own children, they must get permission for each and every web site they go to. No private email. CERTAINLY no social media.
Possible. However, it should be noted that traditional porn sites are dying, due to competition from free porn sites similar to Youtube.
and earns its purveyors more than $3,000 per second.
Again, quite possibly true. But the biggest effect of the interwebs on porn has been to kill off the middleman.
Instead of a "porn king" getting rich off exploited women, the norm is more often a women entrepeneur selling her "services" directly to the consumers, via private shows and such.
The porn industry is heavily invested in keeping age verification out of the Internet.
It’s tantamount to giving beer to 13 year-olds and defending it by saying “I couldn’t card him because he couldn’t show me an ID”.
To which I respond: Liquor? I barely know her...
Clinton and Janet Reno deliberately halted Justice Department activities to enforce pornography laws.
The pornography explosion began under Janet Reno, not only because of the technology expansion of the internet, but because the feds deliberately did not target pornographers.
The alcohol comparison is a good one, by the way. Pornography damages people and marriages and families.
Here’s another catchy phrase that works for more than just “porn”...
“World proof your kids as there is no way to kid proof the World.”
“Porn addiction” is a feminist phrase concocted by women who have spent 0% of their time trying to understand just how much a young man likes and dsires sex.
Hint: They like it a lot.
It’s like saying that a runner has water addiction and a shoe fetish.
When I was a teenager you had to rely on the “Porn Fairy” leaving magazines in the bushes.
My guess is that if the truth were known, porn is the underlying problem that caused the fairly recent increase in ED.
It’s also the likely reason that the young nowadays see nothing wrong with depravity like homosexuality. If they’re looking at depravity all day every day, they become sheeplized and indoctrinated.
“I cannot define porn but I know it when I SEE it”: - Direct quote from some dippy Congressman. ;-)
"You can get all your liquor down in Costa Rica.
Ain't nobody's business but my own."
So many lies, so little time.
$3000.00 per second? Man, am I in the wrong business.
My wife would not like it if I were looking at porn, but we watch the HBO show, Game of Thrones together and - honestly - in my wildest dreams I wouldn’t go to a porn site showing 90% of the porn sickness that that “show” airs.
So, that television show is giving porn a run for its money in my opinion and therein lies the bigger problem. Maybe.
Pornography harms individuals, marriages and thus families, and most of all, children and young people. It's the truth.
With all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Ronald Reagan, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act is another federal law which Reagan should have vetoed. He should have vetoed it because, regardless that Constitution-ignoring FDR's actvist justices argued that the Commerce Clause powers gave Congress wide powers, Justice John Marshall had previously officially clarified that Congress has no power to regulate intrastate commerce, a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution's Commerce Clause, Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact the 18th Amendment is an example of the states delegating such power to Congress, that amendment prohibiting the intrastate manufacture and intrastate sale of intoxicating liquors. Note that the states later repealed the 18th Amendment with the 21st Amendment.
"On May 21, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Child Protection Act, which was supposed to protect persons younger than 18 from exploitation by pornographers."
There may be a problem with respect to the author's reference to the Child Protection Act of 1984, possibly wrong year or title. I cannot reference it.
Child Protection Act of 1984
Otherwise, if the Child Protection Act likewise regulates intrastate commerce, then Reagan shouldn't have signed that one either. Again, only the states can regulate intrastate commerce unless they amend the Constitution to grant Congress the power to regulate a specific aspect of intrastate commerce.
Getting back to possible problems with the so-called CPA of 1984, where did I left-click when I should have right-clicked?
As a side note to the Reagan presidency, please consider the following. Although his intentions were undoubtedly good, Reagan is an example, imo, that even conservative presidents have not necessarily been taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intented for those powers to be understood.
Most divorces involve one partner compulsively using pornography making up crap about the other partner.
There, fixed it.
"Your honor, he is a bad man. A very, very bad man! Take him away!"
Bhatt v Bhatt.
one survey of 16- to 20-year-olds found nearly one out of four young men and one out of 10 young women admitting they tried to kick the habit but could not.
Does "breaking the habit" mean not spending hours upon hours on porn sites, or does it mean never, ever looking at a naked chick again? The author doesn't elaborate (and I understand that the author doesn't have endless column space) but without more, there just isn't much upon which to assess the extent of the problem, if any.