Posted on 04/04/2010 8:35:19 PM PDT by myknowledge
Oh God, here we go again, righteous types trying to tell free-thinking, law-abiding people what to do with their lives, are now on a campaign to ban porn magazines and lads mags from the newsagents, petrol stations and shops they’ve been in for years to “save the children”.
OPINION: Watch out, Playboy, Penthouse, People, The Picture, Zoo, Ralph, Post and other such publications, a group of academics, child experts, TV stars and more have written to the Australian Attorneys-General effectively demanding they do something about these types of magazines in stores.
They want them restricted to adults-only premises, which just like the proposed Australian Internet filter doesn’t actually deal with the “problem” but shuts them out from view, making them more attractive in a way that all bans end up doing.
(Excerpt) Read more at itwire.com ...
What do you think?
Pornography has done more to harm the cause of liberty than any liberal welfare policy.
There's still porn magazines?
When pr0n is outlawed, only outlaws will see beaver pictures!
Our greatest threat to liberty appears, to me, to be the radical Marxists in the White House, not Larry Flynt.
Wait, wait, wait.
These are the same do-gooders who are Pro-Abortion? The same do-gooders who want to kill disabled children “for the good of the community and to cut medical costs for the rest of us?” These are the same do-gooders who promote the gay/lesbian/transgender life-style and the adoption of children by same? These are the do-gooders who won’t allow prayer in our Schools or our Legislatures or any “public” meeting? These are the do-gooders who believe “sex before 8 or it’s too late?”
THOSE do-gooders?
I have a suggestion for where those do-gooders can go. But I don’t want to be banned from FR for life.
I am not certain what effect porn has on child molesters.
Ironic, since it was the very same social justice do-gooders who wanted to legalize it back in the sixties.
Live long enough, see everything. The wheel goes ‘round and ‘round.
California?
I think the damned blue-noses should dry up and blow away. Their only goal is control and/or sanitizing and/or destruction of anything they don't personally like.
I don't personally have any use for porn, especially the hard-core variety (although I enjoy racy-but-tasteful girlie photos as much as any red-blooded American male).
I also don't have any use for corsets, but does that mean I should want to ban them?
If you allow people to control what you can and can't read, you will soon find they want to control what you can and can't think.
None of us want to see America go down that road.
That’s true. It’s soul-shattering poison. And it’s pure evil.
But free men must reject it on their own. There’s no virtue in having a central authority remove the temptation for us.
That being said, society has every right to keep it out of the public view. People who choose not to consume pornography should not be forced to see it in public areas.
The libs dont want you to have porn? huh?
As a proud "Do-Gooder"... I will bring up your porno concerns at our next Do-Gooder global conspiracy meeting.
Ping
All I know is, I feel sorry for anyone who doesn’t get Playboy for the articles. That is all the magazine is.
The free market seems to be working today. When I go to a national chain store (excluding book stores) I don't have to be worried that my kids will be exposed to objectionable material. I can choose not to go to the movies. There are plenty of family friendly venues, and there are a few porn friendly venues for those who have the need.
The internet is not quite as well defined. Parents probably need to be more involved in what is being viewed on their computer, but more importantly, ISPs could develop a family friendly network if the market dictated it.
“Petrol Stations”... the UK?
By attracting the clumsy ministrations of the well-intentioned?
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