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Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Utah Governor Gary Herbert said on his Facebook page: "Pornography is a public health crisis. The problem is rampant, yet it thrives in secrecy and silence." He emitted this thought on signing a resolution which says porn is "a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms." In addition, it "perpetuates a sexually toxic environment." The resolution doesn't just stop there. It goes on to say "due to advances in technology and the universal availability of the Internet, young children are exposed to what used to be referred to as hard core, but is now considered mainstream, pornography at an alarming rate." The resolution says pornography "equates violence toward women and children with sex and pain with pleasure, which increases the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography." It requests "the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level in order to address the pornography epidemic that is harming the people of our state and nation." In the words of Gov. Gary Herbert, "Today's bills will start an open discussion." I couldn't agree more...
Another attempt by the far right to legislate its religious morality. Maybe we should call religion a public health crisis. It damages people's ability to think rationally. Porn is like any other film; it's staged. Of course, the right doesn't call action movies a public health crisis, even though they tend to contain plenty of violence; action movies don't violate their religion's morals.
Don't worry, you've got the far left doing exactly the same thing. Notice all the progressives(or if you prefer regressives) out there complaining about sexy clothing, whining about how xyz thing should conform to their ideals because it offends their sensibilities. Then you've got the various ones including the ardent radfems saying that female sexuality is bad, but only when particular groups of people appreciate it. An example, that on one hand women wanting to be prostitutes is okay, and in the next breath saying that women wanting to be prostitutes is bad. That porn is bad and is rape culture, and in the next breath saying that it empowers women. Haven't even started in on the ones that believe that women should be fully covered up and are trying to push sexuality back prior to the sexual revolution because they don't like sexuality regarding either men or women.
Personally between the two? Between the two though, the far right doesn't have the votes or ability to do squat and people will mock them. The far left on the other hand have plenty of people in the media rallying behind them declaring everything is sexist, or misogynistic or *insert buzzword here." And people including the media think that the left can do no wrong. There's a huge double standard out there right now.
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A grown-up woman who has a relationship with a man will either provide enough sex so this is not an issue or be a lady and look the other way. Seriously, may as well ask her man to stop breathing. The problem is that many women these days have years, but never have grown up. (Not any better on the male side of things...).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
No study like this is going to be anything but passive. You can't force people to breathe in smoke for a study, so it's going to be hard to gather data and prove anything. That doesn't mean it's false.
If a smoker smokes, it's unhealthy. You can't argue that the same smoke is somehow sanitized if it didn't come from the butt-end of the cigarette (through an additional filter, usually). That's just plain illogical.
Even thirdhand smoke is being determined to be dangerous (thirdhand being the smell left behind on clothes, etc), causing damage to DNA.