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The US state of Utah is trying a different approach to its long-standing campaign against online smut, passing a resolution that says pornography is a “public health emergency”. The rationale for the bill, according to its main provisions, is that “pornography is a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual …

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  1. Someone Else Silver badge
    Stop

    Unintended consequences...

    The legislature is also concerned that watching naughty vids “is linked to lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity”.

    I dunno...given that several sects of Utah's Mormons are hellbent on practicing polygamy, maybe a bit of "lessening desire in young men to marry" might just be the ticket to nipping that thing in the bud.

    Any puns in the preceding paragraph are purely accidental....

  2. JeffyPoooh
    Pint

    Utah State Motto

    "Get off xHamster and get married, thunders legislature"

    Utah State Motto: Marry Early, Marry Often

    [Golly that's funny. It really is...]

  3. JJKing

    http://mormongirlz.com/

    THANK YOU x7. Next time those guys on the bicycles knock on my door, I'M SIGNING UP!!

    Maybe the Salt Lake City sinners should team up with that idiot Imam who spouted that jerking off would make your hand pregnant. Sounds like they would make a good team.

    In the country where I grew up porn was banned but there was a ex-nun (I won't say her name was Patricia Bartlett) who was the stalwart against pornography. Only thing was that she had the best and greatest porno collection in the whole country. It almost want to make me protest against it so I too could be the most popular guy in the city.

    Some porn IS causing a serious problem. Teenage guys watch it and think that this is how to treat girlfriends/women in real life. From what I have seen, all women just love being fucked in the arse (ass for the colonials) without any lubrication and then having a fecal covered dick shoved into her anxious waiting mouth. (Makes me want to dry reach just thinking about that.) This sort of porn needs to be countered by education. Time to take the porn industry out of the closet and taxed a bit more to pay for that education.

    I was watching John Oliver a week or more ago and he came out with the interesting fact that those USA politicians who protest the loudest about being against porn, prostitution, alcohol etc were the ones most likely to be heavily involved in such nefarious activities. You know like the idiot who was so for Family Values and by the way, here's a Twitter pic of my valued family dick.

    I agree with my fellow contributors that education is the answer. Just like if drugs were made legal and distributed by the gubermint, not only would the USA directly save $51+Billion a year but the taxes collected on selling these now legal drugs (see alcohol and tobacco as examples) could be used on education about drugs. Prohibition was a fine example on how well banning something worked. All it did was make criminals a lot of money and cost the taxpayers a lot of money to fight the now really rich criminals. Sorry, seem to be waffling. Must be caused by the prescribed drugs that I am on.

  4. Matt Bryant Silver badge
    WTF?

    Latest conspiracy theory - "it's 'cos Mormons hate Obama!"

    Straight from one of my more liberal colleagues, she is convinced this is just another way to overload Obamacare with lots of insurance claims of "sexual illness" treatments. Who knows, maybe she's right, it is Utah after all!

  5. anoco

    Porn has been good to me

    I don't know what kind of health hazard he's talking about, but I know that I've been feeling a lot better about myself by watching pr0n. For one thing, I don't suffer from Body Dysmorphic Disorder anymore and my Automycrophallophobia has all but vanished after I found out how to take the mask off certain flicks.

    Maybe porn has made the Mormons self conscious of their weird polygamic lifestyle. Now they probably realize that they don't need to keep marrying the other sisters in order to have sex with them. All they have to do is wait for one of them to go to sleep....

  6. The Nazz

    I'm not addicted to porn ...

    I'm just trying to learn French and German the hard way.

  7. Captain DaFt

    Hey Utah!

    I've got the perfect slogan for your new bill:

    "Get our perverts off the internet

    and back out on the street where they belong!"

    >Ahem<

    Now that that's off my chest, a bit of (possibly poorly remembered) history:

    Way back in the days of my halcyon youth, IE 1980s, when I haunted the school library, I read an article about a new program in England.

    It seems that even further back in the day, there'd been a big push to get television in homes to get the youth, IE young males, out of pool halls and back home with their families where they belonged.

    The new (1980s) push was to start new pool halls in neighborhoods to get the youth, IE young males, weaned off television and out of the house to socialise more.

    Buut, the internet happened, and oh well...

    My twisted take on this?

    In a few years, Utah will be spending billions and legislating to get the "perverts" off the streets, where they're "corrupting" "honest youth".

  8. x 7

    mormons secret magic underwear

    you've heard of Victoria's secret - the place for womens undies?

    Well, here is the Mormon equivalent - somewhat limited choice

    http://mormonssecret.com/collections/all

  9. Brian Allan 1

    "It's not the first time Utah's tried to keep its citizens pure."

    Maybe if the men and women of Utah just came up with the novel idea of sex for fun, instead of procreation, they wouldn't have nearly the problem!? Just saying...

  10. borabosna

    female centric Utah will never learn

    "watching naughty vids “is linked to lessening desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage, and infidelity”."

    How about the fact that women initiate more than 80% of divorces, win because of no fault divorce, get full custody 90+% of the time, destroy the man through child support and alimony, and even put him in jail with back payments? Men losing their driver's licenses and their jobs because of back payments? Women in concert with social services, alienating fathers from their children? What about rampant paternity fraud? What about abused men getting arrested for calling the police for help under mandatory arrest and primary aggressor laws?

    But of course, polygamist Mormon idiots would NEVER, not in a million years, criticize women. They tried the same old shaming tactics to make men marry again with the PragerU youtube videos "Be a man. Get married." and they got what they deserved: overwhelming dislikes.

    Porn is a symptom, not the cause. It just happens to be there to pass the time. In the past it was different things. Like clubs. Women's "temperance unions" tried to shut that down too. Remember prohibition?

    Why should men get married under these laws and the awful behavior women, which is REWARDED by the government?

    Screw you Utah for the gynocentric cucks you are. Why aren't you banning "Fifty Shades of Grey"?

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