Posted on 11/18/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by MisterRepublican
Comparing pornography to heroin, researchers on Thursday called on Congress to finance studies on "porn addiction" and launch a public health campaign about the dangers.
"We're so afraid to talk about sex in our society that we really give carte blanche to the people who are producing this kind of material," said James B. Weaver, a Virginia Tech professor who studies the impact of pornography.
Internet pornography is corrupting children and hooking adults into an addiction that threatens their jobs and families, a panel of anti-porn advocates told the hearing organized by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., chairman of the Commerce subcommittee on science.
Brownback, a father of five, said when he was a boy, the typical kid's exposure was limited to occasional peeks at dirty magazines illicitly obtained by a buddy.
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same words used during the 19th century - and the 20th century - now the 21st century.
SEX is addicting - otherwise we would not be here!
They found something Clinton can "head" up.
Just don't look at internet porn at work. It's not that difficult.
Geez. You'd think that there was an epidemic of people sneaking girlie magazines in their sack lunches to work for the past 50 years.
Step 1: Discover what 1.5 billion Chinese are doing right.
Step 2: Replicate it.
*yawn*
let's just set these goalposts in concrete, shall we?
what level of consumption equates to "addiction" according to these folks?
By what standards do they derive these criteria?
Or require that ever other picture viewed is a pose by Hillary, Madeleine Albright, Donna Shalala, Janet Reno, or Helen Thomas.
If it's liberals, probably once a month if they need it or not is sufficient.
The busybodies are at it again. Some people have too much time on their hands, pardon the pun.
So glad to see these Senators have nothing better to attend to.
ahem.
The problem with this is that they are always going to do a study to support their view, but we have never had a valid study done that agrees with this position.
The key word here is "Valid". That leaves out the questionnaire they give to the folks leaving bible study.
And 24 of them went back to their offices to get a first hand look at just how bad this internet pornography actually was.......
oh boy, I knew it was inevitably going to come - the self appointed decency police coming to censor and regulate the internet. After they finish cleansing the internet with complex regulations the internet will turn into the same corrupt beast as broadcast television.
As with all things in life, a healthy balance is the best course. Ya seen one porn flick ya seen em all.
Medicalize everything, control everything.
I'm taking a *cough* rigid *cough* position *cough* of libertarian laissez-faire on this one.
So long as peoples' private diversions remain private, I don't really think I have any reason or right to say diddly about them in a legal context.
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