This declares pornography a public health risk. Or are they in control of everything? Are they confused? All of it How many mass shootings can you remember in recent US history? Frankly, there are too many to count, and the fact that this recent horrific bloodshed is still not enough to get the whole country to support gun control measures speaks volumes. The fight against pornography does not seem to be directly connected to the gun issue, but it also speaks volumes.
And that’s it. To be precise, it is connected.
The resolution was introduced shortly after the House of Representatives voted 71-36 against a motion to open debate on banning “assault weapons” in the presence of students who came to watch pornography and claimed it was nothing more than gun control. The proposal was supported by a lawmaker who is running for attorney general. The proposal, approved by a vote on Tuesday, says the Internet exposes children to pornography at an alarming rate, which can lead to low self-esteem and deviant sexual behavior. It also says pornography contributes to mental and physical illnesses, relationship problems, and unhealthy brain development.
What personally strikes me here is that all of the health problems listed above can be proven to be caused by almost any cause. Porn is just a coaster under the glasses we get together to drink from, don’t you think?
Porn and Violence
all the tensions we are discussing here manifest in different ways around the world, but Americans seem to have a particularly notable history of sensationalizing sex and violence in all the wrong ways. Movies, Porn I was born in the early 80s and I remember the debates about what children should and shouldn’t be exposed to. And guess what? After all, exposing children to violence, gore and gratuitous violence seemed much less disturbing than exposing them to depictions of sex and sexuality. And exposing them to sensational and completely unrealistic pornographic sex scenes has traditionally gone a lot smoother than exposing them to information about porn. Take the example of the British Board of Film Classification, which polices porn so hard that you wonder who was harmed by the wild women who showed the world that they, too, could wreak havoc.
I would go so far as to say that repressed sexuality and the deeply warped/outdated religious mindset surrounding porn is what fuels a) the appalling and questionable state of shitty, violent, misogynistic mainstream pornography. While porn addiction and the total saturation of young minds with this particularly trashy porn is a concern, the bottom line is not that porn should be banned because it causes health problems. It’s about how healthier, more sensual, more empowering, more female-friendly depictions of sex have the power to change the world for the better. And as always, the evil institutional forces policing porn and policing it are the problem, not the solution. We’re talking
Bittersweet
Porn, or the potential for it, is like refined sugar. People are addicted to it. They might fall apart without it. After all, that’s what America and every other country, too was founded on, and that’s what makes a good action thriller, right? Many Americans seem to believe that if their right to bear arms and shoot people in the head (if necessary) is taken away, they are somehow less than human. They will do anything to keep their blood sugar high, even though deep down they know it’s bad for them.
