Post by Logan on Dec 30, 2016 17:37:33 GMT -6
A lawmaker is asking the state legislature to declare pornography a public health hazard, a move he hopes will pave the way for limits of some sort.
Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, has proposed a resolution stating that pornography leads to social problems and that the General Assembly, which convenes Jan. 11, needs to do something about it. Just what they should do is unspecified.
The measure does not call for any sort of ban, but rather a broad recognition of “the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level in order to address the pornography epidemic that is harming the people of the commonwealth and the nation.”
He compared the value of the declaration to the one U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry made in 1964, with the first official report to link cigarettes to disease.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_c26b0af1-1a8d-537d-ab79-f6937db39b6b.html
Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, has proposed a resolution stating that pornography leads to social problems and that the General Assembly, which convenes Jan. 11, needs to do something about it. Just what they should do is unspecified.
The measure does not call for any sort of ban, but rather a broad recognition of “the need for education, prevention, research, and policy change at the community and societal level in order to address the pornography epidemic that is harming the people of the commonwealth and the nation.”
He compared the value of the declaration to the one U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry made in 1964, with the first official report to link cigarettes to disease.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_c26b0af1-1a8d-537d-ab79-f6937db39b6b.html