For Todd Weiler, it started with a noisy constituent. The state senator in Utah, a Republican, was getting frequent calls from a local dentist who wanted to know what he was going to do about pornography. “I’m a lawyer," Weiler recalls telling her. "I understand the First Amendment, so I was telling her a lot of, ‘We can’t do that, we can’t do that.'"
Still, Weiler was able to get a resolution passed in 2016 declaring pornography a public health crisis. Since Utah’s first-in-the-nation resolution, the idea has picked up considerable steam: 15 other states have passed identical or near-identical resolutions.
Weiler says he changed his tune when the National Center on Sexual Exploitation approached him with the idea. “They told me," he recalls, "‘If you can pass this, we can get this passed in 15 more states. We just need one legislator to stick his neck out.'”
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4 comments:
Democrats Love Porn , ie Bill Clinton !!!
Porn ain't go'in anywhere , Don't worry !!!!
Is the cult up and running yet?
Well, pornography sure has become much more prolific and "visible" in the internet era. Much better and stimulating than anything from my adolescent years. Video sucked (pun intended) back then, and books and magazines with pictures were the most common source, and you had to reply on a vivid imagination to even call them porn. Like anything else these days, people are always going to find something to be "addicted" to, whether it be food, sex, cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, or yes, even pornography. You will never get past our history of a country being founded by Puritans. They are still those among us, trying to stop people in a free society from engaging in "sin."
@ July 20, 2019 at 8:15 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction, don't you know... in areas of higher sexual repression is where you find the highest consumption of porn. In the U.S. that would be the Bible belt, the most porn watching is in the Bible belt.
Utah is the # 1 watcher of porn of all the states... not surprising.
This is the problem with trying to legislate a moral agenda based on shoddy facts... people will still seek it out because of the repression.
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