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People are terrified of the word "censorship". It is a bad concept in the hands of government, censoring the truth of events, or censoring ideas, or opposing viewpoints. But in terms of local control of (for instance) what is available in libraries, or taught to children, or on view in stores - that is legitimate. There is no inalienable right to have pornography freely viewable in the public sphere.

The SCOTUS has invented rights to abortion, now they have invented a right to sodomy. They also invented the right to obscenity, calling "exotic" dancing a form of speech. The problem with this tactic is that there is no stopping it. The purveyors and viewers of such filth always want more extreme, more vicious, more perverse. That is the nature of the beast. There is no end to it, where they will say "ok, that's explicit enough." So others have to draw the line. And we're past where the line should be drawn.

When the founders of this country wrote the Constitution, and enumerated the right of free speech, they had no intention that such right would cover the sick, vicious and degraded pornography that is now enshrined as a right. And pornorgraphy is not only not neutral, it is an evil and ruins people. And if many people are ruined, it affects society.