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.
which increases the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography
When I look at porn, I don't feel a need to abuse children. And I think most people don't either. If this governor feels the need to abuse children when watching porn, then by all means he SHOULD stop watching porn. In fact I strongly believe that anybody who feels watching adult sex leads to wanting sex with children should seek help and should absolutely stop watching porn. But please governor, stop projecting your own feelings on the rest of humanity.
A fairly compelling argument can be made that porn actually reduces abuse but providing an outlet for perfectly normal, powerful feelings. As the Catholic church demonstrates, abstinence certainly has some pretty severe psychological consequences.
Catholics have the lowest divorce rate in the U.S. for no other reason than they fear ex-communication from the church. It has nothing to do with porn consumption or lack thereof.
I repeat, Catholics stay together out of fear.
In fact I strongly believe that anybody who feels watching adult sex leads to wanting sex with children should seek help and should absolutely stop watching porn.
Unfortunately, probably the worst thing you could do is actually seek help, as our current culture is not set up to help people with these urges. What actually will happen is you get put on a list and treated as a criminal or a threat. We have no system set up to deal with this unfortunate sexual orientation.
Not true.. You most assuredly can get help for it, and doctors involved with the person is sworn to secrecy. Unless they deem the patient a danger to others in which case they would first ask the person to hospitalise themself. And only if the person refuses, the doctor would call the cops..
I looked this up about 8 years ago so there may be errors/changed laws by now, also this pertains to Sweden / The EU..
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of
fresh paint?
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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.
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which increases the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography
When I look at porn, I don't feel a need to abuse children. And I think most people don't either.
If this governor feels the need to abuse children when watching porn, then by all means he SHOULD stop watching porn.
In fact I strongly believe that anybody who feels watching adult sex leads to wanting sex with children should seek help and should absolutely stop watching porn.
But please governor, stop projecting your own feelings on the rest of humanity.
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Better yet, he should continue watching porn in a locked room (padded if necessary), far away from real children.
It is not porn that creates the desires, no matter how much the religious extremists want to believe so.
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A fairly compelling argument can be made that porn actually reduces abuse but providing an outlet for perfectly normal, powerful feelings. As the Catholic church demonstrates, abstinence certainly has some pretty severe psychological consequences.
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In fact I strongly believe that anybody who feels watching adult sex leads to wanting sex with children should seek help and should absolutely stop watching porn.
Unfortunately, probably the worst thing you could do is actually seek help, as our current culture is not set up to help people with these urges. What actually will happen is you get put on a list and treated as a criminal or a threat. We have no system set up to deal with this unfortunate sexual orientation.
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