If elected president, Rick Santorum vows to ban pornography. Or at least, “hard core” pornography. Dub tee eff, Rick Santorum. No, just no.
Santorum argues that porn apparently causes brain damage, ruins marriages, leads to prostitution and sex trafficking, and contributes to misogyny and violence against women.
If everyone would just take a step back and chill the fuck out for a second about all of these “issues,” none of them would be real issues at all. Birth control? Stay out of other people’s business. Porn? Again, just stay out of other people’s business. Gay rights? Stay out of other people’s business. If people just stopped getting offended at unnecessary things, then a whole mess of issues would be gone and out of the equations.
Case in point: Rick Santorum’s proposed ban on pornography — why does this need to be an issue? Why should it ever have been an issue? People getting naked and have sex and do some crazy shit, so what if someone taped it. You can’t stop any of that from happening in real life, so why are you just trying to stop it from being filmed?
Why does Santorum, or anyone for that matter, feel the need to control other people’s lives? It is really not your business, as the president, who is or is not watching porn. Does this have anything do with the safety or efficiency of the country? Are you sighting any proof in your statement that it leads to prostitution and sex trafficking? Is this really the federal government’s business? No, no, no it’s certainly not.
Oh wait, speaking of proof in your claims, let’s look at some facts. [According to the Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-hirsch/rick-santorum-porn-freedom_b_1383027.html), “The FBI, National Crime Victimization Survey, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other credible organizations actually report a drop in rapes, teen pregnancies and sex crimes since 1991, when porn first became widely available on the Internet.”
So Rick Santorum, please get it together and check your damn facts for once.
I would agree in thinking that porn actually lowers prostitution and sex crimes, or at least does not increase it. Guys can let it out in the comfort of their own home instead of, you know, other ways. There are always going to be crazies out there, Santorum, and getting rid of porn certainly will not calm them or make them go away.
I mean, these people have got to let it out somehow. You don’t want premarital sex or sex for purposes other than conception, yet you don’t want kids, or anyone for that matter, watching porn. Santorum, you were a teen once, and you had needs too didn’t you? What do you expect the public to do?
And it’s not even just about guys either. People claim that porn is degrading to women, yet there are women that watch porn too, so obviously there is a whole market of women that don’t see it as degrading or clearly do not mind.
So, Rick Santorum, your personal morals should have nothing to do with how you run the country. You should be an unbiased third-party observer. Your job is to do what you, the House and Congress think is best for the country. And porn is really one of those things that needs to take a back burner to things like, oh I don’t know, war and poverty and the entire U.S. economy, perhaps.