https://nypost.com/2019/05/08/arizona-measure-denouncing-porn-as-public-health-crisis-passes-state-senate/
Pornography consumption has been proclaimed a public health crisis in Arizona.
A bill passed in the Arizona Senate on Monday highlights the potential dangers of pornography usage, but stops short of taking further measures to prevent its availability.
“Pornography perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society,” the bill states. “Potential detrimental effects on pornography users include toxic sexual behaviors, emotional, mental and medical illnesses and difficulty forming or maintaining intimate relationships.”
What do you guys think of this? A Good thing? A Bad thing? Discuss. Keep it PG-13 please.
I for one think they aren't going far enough, but then again, that's what I say for just about every move anyone makes. Like a lot of things in post industrial society pornography has proven to be addictive and bad for mental health a lot of times. It's not like sex and sexual activities will cease to exist without porn as if such things didn't exist for the last 2.5M years of human existence, so the question of sexual repression being a danger is irrelevant.
Here are some common arguments for porn, and why I don't think they are valid.
"It is impossible for it to be fully banned, people will find it if there is a market for it"
I'm not a capitalist, I don't really support market economies in the first place and the "people will do anything if there's a market for it" is one of my reasons why. We shouldn't live in a society like that in the first place.
"It is infringing upon people's freedoms to ban it"
You're just drawing an arbitrary line in the sand here. You can't just say that porn isn't bad enough to be banned like certain drugs and other illegal acts. Our freedoms are already infringed upon for our greater good.
"If it's not hurting anyone else just let people do it"
Similar to the drugs thing, it is hurting the person using it, and back to point A, in a market economy men in suits find ways to make money morals aside.
