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Republicans call for crackdown on pornography
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - The Republican Party is calling for a crackdown on pornography in a move that could pit social conservatives against hotel operators, television providers and other businesses that profit from the sale of sexually explicit material.
As they prepare to nominate Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate for the November 6 election, Republicans have added language to their official platform that anti-smut activists said would encourage the federal government to step up prosecution of pornography involving adults.
"Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced," the platform says, according to a draft obtained by Reuters. Republicans are planning a Tuesday vote on the document, a nonbinding statement of principles that tackles everything from monetary policy to abortion.
Though previous Republican platforms have called for increased prosecution of child pornography, this appears to be the first time that the party has called for a crackdown on sexually explicit material involving adults - a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Obscenity has been notoriously difficult to define in a legal context. The Supreme Court in 1973 held that to be obscene, material must depict sex in a manner that offends contemporary community standards and is devoid of artistic or scientific value.
Adult obscenity cases have been exceedingly rare over the past 20 years. Though the administration of George W. Bush promised a crackdown, only the most extreme forms of pornography have been targeted.
Anti-pornography activist Patrick Trueman said the language in the Republican platform would bolster a broader push against the type of sexually explicit material that is sold by convenience stores, by hotels via pay-per-view television programming, and satellite and cable TV providers.
The widespread availability of Internet pornography has made it harder for a generation of young men to find intimacy with their wives, he said.
"It's a growing problem for men in their 20s," Trueman said. "It's changed the way their brain maps have developed. This is the way they get sexually excited."
According to Trueman's group, Romney promised earlier this year that he would push for "strict enforcement" of obscenity laws, as well as the broader use of blocking software to screen out Internet porn.
Trueman and other social conservatives criticized Romney during his 2008 bid for having served on the board of directors of hotel operator Mariott International, which sold sexually explicit content in its hotel rooms. Mariott announced last year that it would gradually stop providing pay-per-view "adult" material.
The Internet research firm TopTenReviews estimated that adult pornography revenues through magazines, the Internet and video sales and rentals totaled $9.4 billion in 2006.
(Editing by Leslie Adler)
http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-call-crackdown-pornography-234408470--finance.html?_esi=1
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The widespread availability of Internet pornography has made it harder for a generation of young men to find intimacy with their wives, he said.
"It's a growing problem for men in their 20s," Trueman said. "It's changed the way their brain maps have developed. This is the way they get sexually excited."
As a man in my 20s, I'll comment. I disagree.
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I'd like to see who here agrees?
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I think they are Jealous, the Republicans want to be the only ones allowed to Fuck People HARD up the Arse and get paid for it.
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Yeah good call ::)
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LOL, if we ransacked a dozen random homes of conservative republicans tomorrow, we wouldn't find any porn right? Right? RIGHT? ahahaaha... not.... I'm from a very red state; I'm not that stupid...
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LOL, if we ransacked a dozen random homes of conservative republicans tomorrow, we wouldn't find any porn right? Right? RIGHT? ahahaaha... not.... I'm from a very red state, I'm not that stupid...
Its pandering to the base, nothing is going to come of it.
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I dont see how you win any new votes with this.
Anyone who is going to say "I like this choice, it influences me" is already a republican voter.
Govt should just stay out of literature for pete's sake. Once you give govt the ability to regulate what ppl can read, you end up with Obama burning copies of D'Souza's book...
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Its pandering to the base, nothing is going to come of it.
Nothing will come of it doesn't stop 3333 from posting about shit for one second :) And in this case you can't really say nothing will come of it since they have several times in the past gone after it seriously with arrests.
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Nothing will come of it doesn't stop 3333 from posting about shit for one second :) And in this case you can't really say nothing will come of it since they have several times in the past gone after it seriously with arrests.
Child pornography? Kill the fuckers.....
Adults who choose the industry none of the governments business and none of the evangelicals business either. In this respect there just as bad as the food police, we is to stoopid to now whatis good fer us.
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Nothing will come of it doesn't stop 3333 from posting about shit for one second :) And in this case you can't really say nothing will come of it since they have several times in the past gone after it seriously with arrests.
I have no problem if they go after child porn like crazy. I am seeing some real nasty shit starting to be making it's way into regular sites that really goes over the line.
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I have no problem if they go after child porn like crazy. I am seeing some real nasty shit starting to be making it's way into regular sites that really goes over the line.
what part of what I posted was about child porn? ::)
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what part of what I posted was about child porn? ::)
What do you want me say? I am against going after porn. It's absurd.
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bumping my video
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What better way to figure who the trouble makers are going to be. The Government is out of control.....
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Its pandering to the base, nothing is going to come of it.
which part of the base is he pandering too?
the fundies?
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As long as people can close their eyes, there will always be porn.
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which part of the base is he pandering too?
the fundies?
Who else is going to try to get the government to do it. This whole scenario has already been played out with Larry Flint - last time I checked Hustler still exists. Different media, will be the same result