## Pornography crackdown coming?

Post by Jack Roper » Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:36 pm

The American Taliban, er, I mean the Republican Party platform appears ready to crackdown on pornography. While I'm sure that no one on this site would ever look at such things I can easily imagine this site and many others being taken down by these religious fanatics, soon to nominate a true religious fanatic, Mitt Romney. Here's the story from today's Huffington Post.
GOP Anti-Porn Plank Added To Draft Platform By Republican Committee
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 08/27/2012 2:15 pm Updated: 08/27/2012 2:40 pm
The GOP platform committee has included a plank in this year's draft document calling for "vigorous" enforcement of anti-pornography laws.
In a press release Monday from Morality in Media, a faith-based non-profit, President Patrick Trueman, a former anti-porn prosecutor, calls the current distribution of pornography "a violation of current federal law" and lauds Republicans for approving stricter new wording:
The new language replaces previous platform wording, which only opposed child pornography. It will now read, "Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced." Trueman noted that current federal obscenity laws not only prohibit distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet but also on hotel/motel TV, on cable/satellite TV, and in retail shops.
In an interview with The Huffington Post's Jen Bendery, Trueman said youth access to pornography amounted to "a major, major problem," and even caused males in their twenties to develop "porn-induced sexual dysfunction."
"It's the Viagra problem for guys in their 20s," Trueman said. Young males are now spending "10 to 12 years looking at porn on the Internet and masturbating to it, so when they are getting married, they are dysfunctional sexually because their brain maps are changed. They enjoy what they've been doing for 10 to 12 years. Normal sex is not something that gets them excited."
The broader regulation, submitted by Family Research Council president and Louisiana RNC delegate Tony Perkins, also echoes GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's position on the issue during his previous campaign for the White House.
"I wanna make sure that every new computer sold in this country after I'm president has installed on it a filter to block all pornography and that parents can click that filter to make sure their kids don't see that kinda stuff coming in on their computer," Romney said at a campaign stop in Iowa in 2007.
In February, Romney lent support to a similar effort in response to a Morality in Media questionnaire about cracking down on pornographers.
The Daily Caller reported earlier this year that Trueman, who served in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, had received an assurance from Romney’s campaign that the former Massachusetts governor would “vigorously” prosecute pornographers if elected president.

### Re: Pornography crackdown coming?

Post by Chris12 » Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:11 pm

> "It's the Viagra problem for guys in their 20s," Trueman said. Young males are now spending "10 to 12 years looking at porn on the Internet and masturbating to it, so when they are getting married, they are dysfunctional sexually because their brain maps are changed. They enjoy what they've been doing for 10 to 12 years. Normal sex is not something that gets them excited."

This is nothing short of the logic of a madman. I hope people are smart enough to see that.

### Re: Pornography crackdown coming?

Post by elusinius » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:01 pm

I think the constitution should be amended to
include the right to wank.

### Re: Pornography crackdown coming?

Post by Jack Roper » Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:47 pm

It's already in there: "the Pursuit of Happiness...."

### Re: Pornography crackdown coming?

Post by Fesselfan » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:30 pm

Sadly, these puritanic views seem to come into fashio again. Not only in the US (they are, after all, world famous for being puritanic and producing most of the porn worldwide at the same time) but in other areas, too. Ok to have a gun with 16, but talk about sex, never.
Cheers
FF
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