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Showing Original Post only (View all)Porn in the USA is a "major public health crisis?" For real? [View all]
Pornography is so widespread in the US that it deserves to be addressed seriously as a major public health crisis, a panel of activists says.
On the eve of a two-day conference on sexual exploitation, they suggested that porn be tackled in the same manner as teenage smoking or drunk driving.
"There's an untreated pandemic of harm from pornography," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media, which has campaigned against pornography since 1962.
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Participants include health professionals, social workers, academics, feminists, faith leaders, campaigners against human trafficking and former members of the multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry.
"This is a business with considerable political clout," said Gail Dines, a sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
On the eve of a two-day conference on sexual exploitation, they suggested that porn be tackled in the same manner as teenage smoking or drunk driving.
"There's an untreated pandemic of harm from pornography," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media, which has campaigned against pornography since 1962.
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Participants include health professionals, social workers, academics, feminists, faith leaders, campaigners against human trafficking and former members of the multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry.
"This is a business with considerable political clout," said Gail Dines, a sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10835994/Porn-in-US-a-public-health-crisis.html
Be careful everyone! If you have an issue of Playboy in your house or visit a porn site, it might make you want to rape women!
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So I assume that you think there's nothing we can do about all the violence in the porn industry...
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#36
Try to come up with something yourself while not climbing into bed....
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#51
If you want to post a story and link that's fine, but what is the follow up
R. Daneel Olivaw
May 2014
#8
Sorry, I can't put every viewpoint of an article with the DU paragraph limit
davidn3600
May 2014
#11
I think what some are saying could be among the dumbest arguments I've heard of...
davidn3600
May 2014
#19
"Never mind the fact that probably 99.9% of men in this country have viewed pornography before. "
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#39
You're wasting your time. These people care more about talking about the religious affiliations of
redqueen
May 2014
#28
Morality in Media's "Dirty Dozen" includes Holder, American Library Association
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#58
Did you read the interview with Weeks in the Rolling Stone? She started watching porn at 12,
seaglass
May 2014
#54
jesus god. fuck that shit. honestly, I wonder how these men live with themselves.
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#92
Nah, you just ran in to deflect a clown punching of another right-wing concern group
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#60
The OP is a criticism of a right wing group getting together to ban porn
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
May 2014
#73
I think what you posted there points out the shades of grey in 'consensuality'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
May 2014
#103
My mistake to assume your non-sequitor was in fact related at all to the thread you posted in.
Kurska
May 2014
#47
My view is that the pornography industry is more a *symptom* of a broader culture...
YoungDemCA
May 2014
#45
Somewhere I read was that Utah views prone by a larger degree than any other state
lostincalifornia
May 2014
#62
Leading to a shortage of hand soap which in tern is allowing the spread of bacterial infections?
yourout
May 2014
#80
I just googled, "spanking college coeds" and I was shocked at what came up ......
Botany
May 2014
#86
those are not causes of death as much as they are contributing factors (underlying causes)
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#95
Amy Winehouse and Bon Scott are two alcohol deaths that I can think of off the top of my head
Go Vols
May 2014
#105
yes, she poisioned herself to death with alcohol. The cause was poision. Alcohol in small doses is
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#108
they did not even die in the same year. Your knowledge of two random famous people's underlying
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2014
#110
since men cant get it up for real women in their lives due to their obsession, i would say there
seabeyond
May 2014
#114