U.S.
Senate Presented With Inaccurate Porn Claims
The
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation quietly
held a hearing on “The Science Behind Pornography Addiction.”
While notice of the hearing had been posted in the Congressional
Register, no one in the adult entertainment industry had been
notified of it by committee staff, and only four witnesses testified,
all of whom have solid credentials as anti-porn activists –
as do several of the committee members.
Arizona
Sen. John McCain, who backed President Bush on the campaign
trail, chairs the committee, but among the more high-profile
members are Republicans Sam Brownback (Kan.) and Trent Lott
(Miss.) who are frequently commended by pro-censorship groups
like the American Family Assn. and Concerned Women for America,
and in the right-wing religious press.
Some
of the false claims that were made by the anti-porn movement
were based on nothing more than imagined negativity. You may
want to note that soft-core porn, including erotica and sexual
education videos like the ones we offer on this site are lumped
into pornography here and it was made clear by many of their
claims that their objective is to show that adult material causes
harm and thus should not be protected under the first amendment.
The adult industry is being attacked and so are your rights
to visit sites like ours. Here are a couple of quotes from the
meeting-
“For
the viewer, pornography increases the likelihood of sexual addiction
and they respond in ways similar to other addicts. Sexual addicts
develop tolerance and will need more and harder kinds of pornographic
material. They have escalating compulsive sexual behavior becoming
more out of control and also experience withdrawal symptoms
if they stop the use of the sexual material.”
“Prolonged exposure to pornography stimulates a preference for
depictions of group sex, sadomasochistic practices, and sexual
contact with animals,” and “trivializes nonviolent forms of
the sexual abuse of children.”
The Bush administration and its congressional cohorts will use
the bad and non-science testimony received by this committee
to pass further laws targeting the adult industry. However,
legitimate sex researchers are now being contacted and encouraged
to submit their own testimony to the committee, which hopefully
will give it the consideration that a true fact-finding body
should.
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