Utah Senator Wants To Declare Porn A "Public Health Crisis" Annnnd I Kind Of Agree With Him
(Source) – Though there has been plenty of research regarding masturbation that suggest masturbation is a natural thing, the state of Utah is pondering whether to pass legislation to limit people’s ability to watch pornography for health reasons. Senator Todd Weiler filed the resolution, SCR. 9 Concurrent Resolution, on Friday publicly declaring that pornography is creating a wide “public health crisis.” According to a report by Deseretnews in 2009, the Utahans watch more porn than people of any other state in America. The resolution filed by the senator makes a bold claim that watching pornography is leading to damaging addiction in people. He also argues that pornography is hugely responsible for “hypersexualisation” of teenagers and other social problems like prostitution. His resolution also states that the use of pornography is linked to lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity.
This is one of those things that you hear and immediately reel back but, once you hear the argument, you kinda nod your head and say, “Hmmm. Ok. I see it.”
Listen, nobody wants their porn taken away. When it comes to my porn I’m more protective than conservatives are of their guns. You keep your hands off my dick and laptop, Weiler! However, objectively speaking, I can’t really say that anything he said is wrong in every sense of the word. Think about it.
Addiction – Does the easy access and vast number of videos lead to porn addiction? I don’t know, alcoholics can’t function without booze. Heroin addicts can’t function without a taste. Addiction is a reliance on a rewarding stimuli without consideration of the consequences. Guess what? I can’t fall asleep without watching porn, and I don’t care about the mess I have to clean up. Sounds like an addiction to me.
Hypersexualisation – Newsflash, folks: if it weren’t for porn I wouldn’t even know how to have regular sex, let alone be intrigued by the freak shit. We’ve talked about the porn blackhole before, how you start with something simple like “blonde” and by the time you’re finished you’re in a kink dungeon with cattle prods. That’s what porn does to the mind. You think you like normal shit? Oh no, no, no my friend, you’re into watching chicks get waterboarded with their own squirt. Good luck with that in the real world.
Lessening desire to marry – Yupppp. Cumming is all about release. Yeah sex is fun, but it comes with a lot of baggage. You have to talk to women, buy dinners and drinks, be entertaining, have fights, do chores, etc, etc. There’s a lot that goes into it. You don’t need any of that shit with porn, because it’s the new love. Porn is patient, porn is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others (well, that one’s a lie. It definitely dishonors others if you’re watching it right), it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs (clear that history, idiots). Porn does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Porn never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be put in buttholes; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
So you tell me, is Senator Weiler’s argument sound? I think it is. I think a bunch of speculum in asshole addicts running around town, refusing to marry and procreate sounds a bit like the end of humanity. In my opinion, the end of the world as we know it is a health crisis.