The US state of Utah has become the first to declare pornography a public health risk in a move its governor says is to "protect our families and our young people".
The bill does not ban pornography in the mainly Mormon state.
However, it calls for greater "efforts to prevent pornography exposure and addiction".
One group representing the adult entertainment industry attacked what it called "an old-fashioned morals bill".
Pornography, the bill says, "perpetuates a sexually toxic environment" and "is contributing to the hypersexualisation of teens, and even prepubescent children, in our society".
Further steps must be taken to change "education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level" against what it calls an epidemic, but it does not suggest how changes should be implemented.
The bill was signed by Republican Governor Gary Herbert, who said the volume of pornography in society was "staggering".
One 2009 study by Harvard Business School said that Utah was the state with the highest percentage of online porn subscribers in the US.
Some studies have, however, indicated that porn may not be addictive.
Mormon wankers
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Sex was never intended to be a spectator sport and for that reason, quite frankly, porn very quickly becomes boring.

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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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Perhaps, but then, with apologies to Justice Stewart, how can you know what it is if you can't see it?
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So it's a bill that does nothing but say, "there's too much porn soething should be done about it".
Glad those pols have nothing else to concern them.

Glad those pols have nothing else to concern them.
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A "Public health risk". Fascinating. What terrible danger is it causing? How is it being measured? Lowered birth rate?
My brain is all stimulated now.
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My brain is all stimulated now.
yrs,
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Oh man...My brain is all stimulated now.
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Too easy...
Not gonna swing at it...




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You're a little slow today.
Not for you, but for a normal person.
yrs,
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Not for you, but for a normal person.
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LOL...
Not gonna swing at that one either...
ETA:
I'm spotting you two called strikes rube...
Care to wind up and throw another pitch?...
Not gonna swing at that one either...
ETA:
I'm spotting you two called strikes rube...
Care to wind up and throw another pitch?...



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Six runs?Lord Jim wrote:
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Chafing.rubato wrote:A "Public health risk". Fascinating. What terrible danger is it causing? How is it being measured? Lowered birth rate?
GAH!
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That my friend is Pablo "Panda" Sandoval, hitting one of his many playoff home runs for the San Francisco Giants...Gob wrote:Six runs?Lord Jim wrote:

Last year, he left the Giants to play for the lordgimmiestrength Boston Red Sox...
That didn't work out so well...



Re: Mormon wankers
The real story there, is that people in Utah are apparently dumb enough to actually pay for online porn...study by Harvard Business School said that Utah was the state with the highest percentage of online porn subscribers in the US.



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Or that Harvard Business School studies it. Maybe UNLV or or CSU Northridge . . .Lord Jim wrote:The real story there, is that people in Utah are apparently dumb enough to actually pay for online porn...study by Harvard Business School said that Utah was the state with the highest percentage of online porn subscribers in the US.
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FTFYLord Jim wrote:
Last year, he wisely left the Giants to play for the best loved team in the MLB with the greatest fans and the coolest ballpark in all of baseball, the WICKED AWESOME Boston Red Sox - proving just what a smaht baseball player he truly is!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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