[Mrs. Don-o]

Porn opponents say they are taking it from a "new" perspective, "from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights."

As far as I know, that's not new: societies have long been concerned about protecting women and children (and young males, for that matter), because of the links between "transgressive" sexual entertainment, and, well: transgression.

It will be argued that arousal/stimulation doesn't impact attitudes and behavior.

Really?

Advertizing doesn't ramp up demand?

Arousal patttern training doesn't affect arousal pattern?

All those billions of dollars to Madison Avenue are for nothing, because exciting visual stuff doesn't fuel what people consider exciting or desirable? It has no impact on what people want to have or get, or how they want to have it or get it?

A conversation-starter.

[Mrs. Don-o]

LJ, you have mail.

[Perdogg]

I am glad we have a 1st Amendment to protect us against this silliness.

[Rennes Templar]

A ban on not attending church would be more helpful.

[GeronL]

Sounds like an idea worth considering

[JRios1968]

Obviously the Icelanders didn't see this...

[CitizenUSA]

In before the, “This thread is useless without pics!” comment.

Seriously, advertising works. So does porn. It serves a purpose, to entertain and stimulate. That raises several questions: Is the stimulation from porn good or bad?

If it’s bad, does government have the right to ban or control it? What if a community wants to permit it?

If government has a right to ban or control porn, how does one effectively do that without affecting other harmless information. For example, would filtering stop the picture of a nude woman? What about medical journals? Art?

[Lazamataz]

Porn made me the man I am today. I have a heaping helping of porn for breakfast, a light porn snack, then a healthy porn lunch, a midday porn pick-me-up, then some serious close up hard-core porn for supper.

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[Betis70]

>>”Iceland is taking a very progressive approach that no other democratic country has tried,” said Professor Gail Dines, an expert on pornography

I thought it was the progressives that wanted porn in every classroom?

[Rappini]

I’m for blocking Porn on all ISP’s, how’s that for a thought starter.

[Gay State Conservative]

IIRC Iceland's Prime Minister is a Communist lesbian.If that's true that could explain this plan.To protect children from that garbage is reasonable....actually,more like essential.But it's the responsibility of parents to see to it that kids don't see it,just as it's my *doctor's* responsibility to warn me about trans fats...not some billionaire mayor.

My parents did a very good job of protecting me from all the different kinds of trouble I could have become involved in.What's wrong with *today's* parents?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

What the article didn’t mention was that pornography, to a great extent, has only been *legal* since the late 1950s, and even then, it was very tame by today’s standards.

But, at the same time, when it was illegal, there was a substantial black market for it. For example, the infamous “plain brown wrapper” packages from Cuba, a major exporter of porn. Stag films were de rigueur at bachelor parties, and there are now museums dedicated to “pornography as art” from about the 16th Century onward.

Even in ancient history, pornography was ubiquitous. The Romans loved it, and the ancient Hebrews were known for their dirty poetry.

[Ken H]

There has been a big drop in rape and murder since the mid 1990s. That shouldn't be happening if porn were a causative factor.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

[Ransomed]

It’s an interesting question. In 30 or 40 years the generation that was raised in an era of very easily accessed porn will be the ones in charge. If it is as bad as many say for society, it will probably be too late at that point to do anything about it.

On the other hand, I can’t see the state sticking soley with ‘porn philter’ limits once they get the power. On the other-other hand, they already probably limit access to certain things.

The libs that seem to be for this have become so liberal that they went in a complete circle and came out the other side.

If it is implemented I suppose we can always compare Iceland to free access porn places in 50 years or so. Of course Iceland is the place where the state has to approve the name you call your kid, if I recall.

Freegards

[Bigg Red]

Yes, but I suspect this is a situation of closing the barn after the horse has run out.

Admittedly, I do not know much about Iceland and its culture, but I think that I am correct in saying that religious observation there has decreased markedly. Internet porn, I suspect, is just blooming in a weedy field where there has been woefully insufficient seeding of moral truth and standards of decency.

[SeminoleCounty]

Interesting in that Iceland is one of the most sexually loose nations on the planet....and the first to legalize abortion (1930’s)

They must be having major problems with child porn.

[dfwgator]

Porn opponents say they are taking it from a "new" perspective, "from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights."

So then, they should be ok with gay porn. No women involved there.

[jpsb]

The problem is, as always, what is porn and what is art? Opinions vary. Nudes (female) are fine with me, sex is not.

[KosmicKitty]

What’s interesting here is that Iceland want to be the first country to allow for totally anonymous leaks.

It is already against the law for a journalist to reveal a source.

So in Iceland, you can get arrested for looking at a nekkid set of boobs, but you may very well be able to expose national security secrets with no repercussions.

(Maybe they’ve inhaled too much volcanic ash)

[little jeremiah]

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Mrs. don-o is absolutely correct. And keep in mind that pornography is considered to be protected under the First Amendment thanks to the commie ACLU, porn producers, and a leftist dominated SCOTUS. The men who wrote and signed the Constitution never condisered that Amendment to cover films of homosexuals sodomizing each other, women in high heels stomping on kittens, or strippers. Or any other form of obsecentity or pornography.

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Mrs. don-o is absolutely correct. And keep in mind that pornography is considered to be protected under the First Amendment thanks to the commie ACLU, porn producers, and a leftist dominated SCOTUS. The men who wrote and signed the Constitution never condisered that Amendment to cover films of homosexuals sodomizing each other, women in high heels stomping on kittens, or strippers. Or any other form of obsecentity or pornography.