That said, people simply don't understand this issue. This is not about rights or right and wrong. The brains responds to images in certain ways. Violence affects the brain; but it takes massive quantities of it to really pose a risk and then mainly only to very young viewers; my PERONSAL belief is that the individual and parents should monitor that. That said, even violence is dangerously close to requiring a little throttling back as random acts of violence by young people is becoming bizarrely common. Again; where are mom and dad? Mom's at work, making sure her compensation doesn't fall behind the man she married for his ability to make more money than she.
Pornography is enjoyed by too many young people, plain and simple, especially boys; and it is warping their minds. It affects their minds in ways science is only beginning to unravel and the ways are ALL HORRIBLE. Its permeated society at every level; women are CONSTANTLY sexualized day and night, especially for entertainment purposes and it must stop. You want to watch porn? Fine; granted you're at least 18, go purchase some. And I think that ought to be 21. Why? Because hard core porn is all that's left that is a mystery and even that's not hard to find. As for non-hard core or "soft core" porn - that is what's consumed mostly by the mainstream citizen and that is now everywhere, including the movies, magazines (PlayBoy is losing market share to Maxim), and even regular cable television.
ENOUGH.
Western women's lives are becoming one long panic attack over their appearance and men have become COMPLETELY desensitized by excessive exposure to sexual imagery. This is tearing society apart. Romance is dead, marriage is dead, sex is trite and common, and love is on an operating table with people in the background yelling "CLEAR."
JUST. STOP. THE BLEEDING. ALREADY.
Republican Leaders Push for a National Ban on Most Porn
Jason Mick (Blog) - August 29, 2012 1:59 PM
"The internet is for porn!" you say?
Well apparently the Republican Party's national leadership didn't get the memo.
I. Gotta Ban 'em All
As part of its national platform, the Republican party is pushing for strict enforcement of existing anti-obscenity laws, which would effectively prohibit many kinds of pornography.
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Cliff's Notes Explanation:
U.S. federal laws banning most types of porn already exist, but are not enforced. The Republican National Party is not calling for new laws on pornography. They are calling for existing laws to be strictly and vigorously enforced. The position is non-binding, though those who defy it may lose funding for their candidacy.
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The new stand is rather unique in that it represents the first major effort in a long time to crack down on pornographic recordings of consenting adults. Most efforts in recent decades have focused on cracking down on child pornography, due to its non-consensual nature and vast prevailing public opposition.
So what exactly is this proposed "porn ban"?
Republicans hope to ban pornography to preserve "Christian values".
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The Republican Party's new platform, which will be set to a vote on Tuesday states:
Current laws on all forms of pornography and
obscenity need to be vigorously enforced.
Federal politicians are by no means legally obligated to follow their party's national platform, but if they defy it they risk losing funding support from the "party bosses".
II. What Kinds of Porn Would be Banned?
The next natural question is what are "obscenity laws"?
Obscenity laws, which generally are not currently enforced, include state and federal laws (see 18 U.S.C. 1461-68, 47 U.S.C. 223). The laws prohibit sending obscene communications, selling and buying of obscene material, and accessing obscene material on the internet.
So what is obscene?
The case that legal experts say defines that is Miller v. California, a 1973 case involving Marv Miller, head of the West Coast's largest mail-order pornography business at the time. In its ruling, the Supreme Court defined the criteria for obscenity as:
2. The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, Roth, supra, at 354 U. S. 489, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. If a state obscenity law is thus limited, First Amendment values are adequately protected by ultimate independent appellate review of constitutional claims when necessary. Pp. 413 U. S. 24-25.
Common sexual acts that would likely be deemed "obscene" under those guidelines are hardcore heterosexual sex, depictions of group sex, homosexual sex, fetish sex acts, and bondage. Some forms of softcore or short-length sex are widely considered to be acceptable under the laws.
The porn ban would include outlawing depictions of bondage and anal sex.
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“Distribution of obscene or hardcore pornography on the Internet is a violation of current federal law,” says Patrick Trueman, president of Morality In Media, in a statement. "We are most grateful to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, who led the effort to get the tough new language into the platform. Without enforcement of federal obscenity laws, pornographers have had a green light to target our children and families."
By banning those multitude of sexual material, the Republican party would choke off a major chunk of internet pornography, which a recent study estimates makes up over 30 percent of the total internet data traffic.
For the record, British conservative leaders floated a similar anti-porn proposal, but it proved flaccid. In the unlikelihood of a true U.S. ban on porn, it would join only a handful of nations, such as Iran, that have outlawed porn for religious reasons.
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