Arkansas Declares Pornography a 'Public Health Crisis' That Harms 'Our Country'

Cybercast News Service ^ | April 10, 2017 | 4:49 PM EDT | Michael W. Chapman

[Olog-hai]

The Arkansas General Assembly has declared that “pornography has created a public health crisis,” leading to a broad “spectrum” of public health “impacts and societal harms.” The Assembly also stated that pornography can increase “the demand for prostitution and the sex trafficking and slavery of children and young adults, primarily girls.”

The Resolution, HR 1042, is an official recognition by the Arkansas government. It is not a law. It reflects the official view of the legislature and a copy of the Resolution is sent to the director of the Department of Health in Arkansas. Similar resolutuions have passed in South Dakota, Utah, and Virginia, and in the State Senate in Tennessee. The Arkansas resolution passed the Assembly on March 28.

Introduced by Rep. Karilyn Brown, the Arkansas resolution in part says, “pornography normalizes violence and abuse of women and children by depicting rape and abuse as if such acts are harmless.… [D]ue to advances in technology and the universal availability of the Internet, the average age of exposure to pornography is currently 11 to 12 years of age.”

Further, exposure to porn may “lead to the hypersexualization of teenagers and even prepubescent children” and “research indicates that pornography is potentially biologically addictive.” …

[Mechanicos]

Its been around in different forms before:
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In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters.

Hungary’s youth, having been fed a steady diet of values-neutral (atheism) and radical sex education while simultaneously encouraged to rebel against all authority, easily turned into delinquents ranging from bullies and petty thieves to sex predators, murderers, and sociopaths.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html

[wyowolf]

Actually it was I who was being fair to the first JA quote...

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”

– John Adams

[Ransomed]

At least one big difference between written porn and actual video porn is the exploitation factor. Real people will never be at risk to create written porn, while at least some terrible exploitation occurs in the industry/creation of video porn with actual people.

Freegards

[Ransomed]

Well, what I meant is in 1919 you couldn’t type in specific search terms into your phone wherever you are and come up with a very specific pornographic act that tripped your trigger at the moment. That is new, it isn’t it? I mean the ease and choice part, not the inclination of course.

Freegards

[Mechanicos]

Tech has changed, cultural Marxism has not.

[rlmorel]

That is true.

And neither is the trend of people with their heads buried so deeply in their smartphones that they aren’t having discussions with people sitting across the table from them.

All this stuff is uncharted territory.

[rlmorel]

Okay...I see that...it was a bit convoluted on initial viewing.

Thanks for the clarification.

[Ransomed]

You are right of course. I personally think it is soul killing stuff.

Freegards

[Ransomed]

I also have a hard time imagining that social media is good for society. I’m not sure we are meant to know what our family, friends, and complete strangers think about every little thing in brief blurbs. We certainly didn’t develop with these capabilities. I think the social media bullying with these young girls that supposedly goes on can’t be a good thing.

Freegards

[tuffydoodle]

I don’t hang out with anyone anymore. People are too freaking crazy. My husband and kids are my best friends.

[cgbg]

This is the state that failed to prosecute Bill Clinton for rape.

No sale.

[rlmorel]

I agree.

I used to be an advocate for computer technology in the personal and professional realm...I was always an early adopter (with the notable exception of the cell phone...I didn’t get my first one until 2007 when the iPhone came out...since I refused to have a cell phone when I was carrying around an iPod for my music and audiobooks. As soon as I could put my music on the phone, I was on it!)

That said, I recognize now it isn’t a good or healthy thing. When you see a family of four, husband, wife, daughter, son, all sitting at a table in a restaurant with their faces in their smart phones, that is, in my opinion, a very bad thing.

Sigh. I thought it would all be fine, but hasn’t turned out that way, IMO. (I love having all the information world at my fingers, but the concept of social media is repulsive and narcissistic to me.)

[Yaelle]

I’m not being sarcastic. I don’t like porn personally but I am not a guy. I do not think porn creates lust in someone who had no hormones. An asexual person with no sexual desire, even a guy, won’t choose to look at porn. He would rather watch a movie or sports or news. The men who use porn use it for one thing. Then they move on to other aspects of their lives.

I’d have to ask a man if watching porn alone is better than sex with a real woman even if she isn’t built like a blow up doll. I’d like to hope and believe there is still something even if only pheromonal that will keep our species going.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

There is no right to engage in behavior that violates the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, porn being a medium that attacks the family and hence attacks the basic underpinning of society.

I agree with your premise but the first Amendment does not constrain any person from engaging in anything. It is written specifically to enumerate what a duly elected government may not do with regards to the God given rights of We The People.

There is a right to engage in behavior that violates the free exercise clause of the first Amendment...it rests with us. The governed. Now, when we speak of God's laws, that is a totally different issue. The government creating a law that keeps someone from reading or watching what they want? That is in violation of what is written in the First amendment.

[wbarmy]

Actually, the number of people who are truly asexual is non-existent. They are not asexual, they just either bury their desires deep or keep them totally under control.

And even if there were, those numbers are so small that to use them as a barometer is not very realistic. The number of destroyed lives, families and homes is too great to ever let that poison into a house or a life.

[New Jersey Realist]

Very good observations. There are those (me included) in our 70’s who have lost our wives and have no interest in seeking another mate for obvious reasons but urges still prevail. We are left to our own devices utilizing whatever is freely offered on the open internet and I believe that is normal and expected. Nothing I brag or shoot off my mouth about but privacy is key to our way of life. I don’t judge and I believe in freedom to do whatever you need to do as long as you don’t violate another person’s rights. If everyone minded their own business this world would be a better place. Whitewashed tombs are not welcome!

[sparklite2]

I had to look up “Whitewashed tomb.” Very apt, and like the rest of your post, well-stated.

[Joe Bfstplk]

Applies to heterosexual only. Gay porn and tranny sex is educational.

[Pelham]

she’s having a meltdown over Syria and Norkistan

[wardaddy]

She hates pot period

Considers porn the vice of the world

I can understand the porn argument it is way out of control

It needs to be quiet like it used to be same as homosexuality was

Problem with porn to me is it’s too available for children

Boys think all women are that pretty and thin and wild sexually

Too high expectations for marriage to expect wives to be so freak

Yes some porn girls are gorgeous actually today

I look at them and go why?

When I was a boy we’d dig thru some dads closet and the women were pasty and plain and completely disinterested