Should pornography be illegal in the United States

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Should pornography be illegal in the United States

  1. Yes

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  2. No

    30 vote(s)
    93.8%
  1. Richard Franks

    Richard Franks Well-Known Member

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    I remember that as well, I remember they were 45 cents for a pack, and then it got raised to 75 cents later. and now you have to ask for it at ten times the price. I know about this and I thank God I never took up the habit.
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    just like eating excessive carbs and seed oils is bad for your health, so is excessive smoking and beach going

    vapes require age verification, if teens want them, they will get them
     
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  3. AARguy

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    When I graduated high school, gas and cigs were both running about 33 cents. (circa 1970) Lots of things were better then. Every chick was on the pill and there was no AIDS. A MacDonald's burger ran about 18 cents. Great memories!
     
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    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    It's probably whatever sex act you don't want your seven year old to watch, but as it is now any grade school kid worth his mettle knows how to get on porn hub. Someone could make a lot of money with an app parents could download on their children's devices that blocks porn sites.

    guess there are some
     
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  5. FreshAir

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    heck, any seven-year-old searching the web for "Melania nude" would get porn in their search engine
     
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    Looks at voting results.
    Pretty clear then. The forum votes to keep pornography legal.
    Next.
     
  7. GrayMan

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    Kids don't face early addiction in the same way by eating seed oils that end up sticking with them into adulthood and growing into a worse habit.

    Just because some kids who really want to access it can get to it, doesn't mean we should make it easy for them. There are many more who won't go through the effort. Those kids who justnwant to satisfy a minor curiosity that elevates to something much more.
     
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    Are you saying that corn oil can lead to.... (shudder)... peanut oil?
     
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    sure they do, processed food is addictive to many
     
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    Incontinence? Like, the inability to hold one's urine? How does watching porn affect that? Also, all the other "issues" you bring up, is all do to porn addiction, which should be treated as a medical condition, nor a moral one.
     
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    Sure,but not in the same way. I am not interested in reducing the argument until it becomes meaningless. Society obviously view different drugs and addictive things, even gambling differently than eating seed oils.


    Sorry I meant ED

    If this had entirely to do with morals, I would be advocating for a ban on porn for all people. Not an ID requirement to keep minors from accessing it.

    BTW all your local stores have to check ID for this kind of thing, but for some reason they can sell porn on the internet without ID? Seems wrong not only the societyal and personal cost to minors but also local business.
     
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    No. I am not a censorship person. If I don't like it, I don't watch.
     
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    Things have changed haven't they?
     
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    Wow, you said a mouthful. And it's not just prices that have changed:
    - There are 26 year olds living in their mommies' basements today (that's when mom's insurance stops covering them). By the time I was 26 I had an engineering degree, had parachuted out of military aircraft, Commanded troops, mastered Field Artillery gunnery, earned an MBA and my wife was pregnant.
    - There were only two sexes and only women could give birth.
    - Democrats could talk about tomato soup, bus schedules, and the weather without dragging racism into the conversation.
    - Admirals with Adam Apples didn't wear dresses.
    - "Income inequality" was prevented by learning skills, completing education, and being motivated to achieve.
    - Pilots (and Vice Presidents) were selected on the basis of their skills and abilities, not simply their skin color and/or sex
    - Salaries varied based on skills, achievement and value... not "equity".

    The list is endless.
     
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    Nothing that produces no victim should be illegal. If people want to make porn and people want to see it, no government interference is necessary.
    I was once in an adult film. (I had a small part!)
     
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    Has your "small part" ever gotten bigger?
     
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    Is there more from where that came from?
     
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    Okay but if we ban porn, we need to ban the almost naked Jesus nailed to a cross image and icons. That is some major S&M porn.
     
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    Not everyone wants pornography to be banned. For some it would mean taking away rights to read what they want to read or seeing what they want to see and that's fine. In the San Francisco Chronicle they advertised movies from the adult theaters and there were people of all ages that would view these porno ads. Would that be right for newspapers to publish pornography movies? There would probably be many other newspapers that would publish adult films that would be rates X and later NC 17 were younger folks perhaps under 17 would have the chance to look at these feature films showing at these adult theaters. What does that tell them about these movies they wouldn't be allowed to see? There would be some effect on their minds and what else could happen? It could be terrifying for some.
     
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    Plenty
     
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    I don't think minors should perform in such things. consenting adults-sure,
     
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    An unenforceable law is bad law. I don't see how a law banning porn could realistically be enforced.
     
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    Exactly. All this is going to lead to is increased surveillance powers given to the government so they can monitor 'illegal' activity. Of course, that is not all they will be monitoring. The last thing we should be doing is allowing the government to meddle any further in what we do in our private lives. It is not up to the government to decide what is 'moral'. That is what the morality police do in Iran. We do not tolerate that sort of nonsense here in the USA.
    If you want to watch porn, watch it. If you think it is immoral, don't watch it. Simple.
     
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    Thaks for the info.
     

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