“Frankly, I'm for banning porn altogether.”
Many people have tried. Usually it’s with laws written by very motivated but uneducated people, so we end up outlawing any picture of naked babies on bearskin rugs, and the Sistine Chapel, and Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. But not anal sex, due to their definition of porn.
It’s quite hilarious, really.
“I'm not going to cry about this.”
Okay. Just make everyone else obey your choices.
“For the same reason we ban cocaine, heroin, and other hard drugs.”
Um… How many people have crashed their car into a bus because they were under the control of porn? Who steals $20 from their mother’s purse to go online and score some naked boobies?
“I've thought about it plenty and concluded that there is no reason porn should be legal.”
Well, here in America, we have the 1st Amendment, and it’s been upheld for Porn quite a few times.
“It has no artistic merit,”
Can you define ‘artistic merit,’ please?
And then can you show me the language in either the amendment or a court decision that says ‘artistic merit’ is needed for 1st A protections?
“and psychologically harms both the creators and the viewers.”
Um, how many people are in therapy for creating porn?
And how many people are in therapy for their childhoods? If you’re going to use ‘psychological harm’ as a basis, we’d have to outlaw parenting. Or at least make people take a test.
