Of course, you do realize that pornography was locally banned throughout America from its founding through the 1950's without leading to the Taliban.
This isn't an issue with an easy answer. How do you ban pornography in the age of the internet? But equating oppostion to porn with the Taliban is silly.
An immoral society will inevitably lose its freedom. Just look at Europe. A good case can be made that the more sexually libertine a society becomes, the bigger and more controlling its government becomes.
Relax, I was joking ya' know.
Don't take everything so serious. Jeeze!
Absolutely true. The less people can discipline themselves, the more they wind up having to be disicplined from the outside.
The idea that people can be out of control sexual libertines and act as the paragons of virtue in the rest of their lives is patently false.
Look at Clinton.
Actually, I think history reveals that the reverse is true. In the U.S. the Progressive Era and the New Deal preceded the Sexual Revolution by decades. Europe was flirting with socialism long before they reached their current level of sexual libertinism.
Furthermore, in the 1980's porn became much more accessible through cable and videocassettes. This trend continued in the 1990's and up to today with the internet. During this time causal sex became more acceptable in the media and in society, but was tempered somewhat by the AIDS crisis.
These same past two decades of sexual libertinism have been the era of Reagan, welfare reform, and tax cuts.