TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature is declaring pornography as a health risk.
The state's House of Representatives approved the resolution by a voice vote on Tuesday. The resolution states a need for education, research and policy changes to protect Floridians, especially teenagers, from pornography.
Republican Rep. Ross Spano says there is research that finds a connection between pornography use and mental and physical illnesses, forming and maintaining intimate relationships and deviant sexual behavior. Spano is also a candidate for attorney general.
Democratic Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith asked Spano why there was an immediate need to pass the resolution and countered that there are more important bills and topics that should be taken up by the Legislature
A similar resolution is in the state Senate and has yet to be heard in a committee.
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last commentFlorida has elected idiots just like many other states it appears.
This elected official is worrying about sex and what adults can see in their bedrooms online rather than protecting kids under 21 from getting shot. I would be asking why are people under 21 barred from buying hand guns but not semi automatics? Why is this elected official worrying about what adults see online instead of real issues. I don't want to move to Florida either.
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You'll go blind!
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While I don't think he's wrong, it is incredibly foolish for lawmakers to focus on any extraneous issues that do not address Florida's spike in mass shootings - Orlando, Parkland, and the Ft. Lauderdale airport just off the top of my head. Admittedly, two of those were ISIS-linked acts of terror, but they could still be addressed by state lawmakers.
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Good luck trying to obliterate porn in society where every 14-yr-old boy has a smartphone and access to WiFi.
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Right. Troubled teenage boys jerking off to porn - health risk. Troubled teenage boys with easy access to assault rifles - eh, who cares?
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@Shadowcat it’s just as well you don’t move here there’s just too damn much traffic and the place is getting too crowded, I wish a few would leave. ;)
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Hell! If I moved to Floriduh it would raise the average I Q in both states. :)
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^^^I didn’t say that but there are a few here that would raise it if they left;)
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Not all of Florida, but where I am, we natives are by FAR in the minority. Immigrants, refugees and northerners, outnumber us about a zillion to one.
Heck, I was over 30 years old before I even knew damnyankee is suppose to be two words. :)
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This is poorly timed legislation. It’s also useless.
I’m old enough to remember how long it took for them to put warnings on packs of cigarettes. For the longest time - tobacco companies fought against allowing any warnings. They wanted folks to keep smoking - buying their cancer sticks - and not questioning the health effects or the addictive chemicals they put in the cigarettes. Now they can just declare porn is unhealthy? Wtf? Hairy palms - folks going blind? It’s just nuts!
Where is the porn lobby? Why isn’t Seymour Butts defending his craft? Where is Stormy Daniels - with her connection to the White House?
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Does nobody else here think that there may be a connection between the shootings and sexual health? After all, humans are, like all other organisms, fundamentally sexual. Sex is basically the most fundamental aspect of our existence. So if you start fucking around with that foundation then I imagine you can really screw up every part of a person’s head. Hell, just look at SJG!
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Millennials can't even have sex right
thoughtcatalog.com
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Let's see, drugs can be and are a health risk. Making them illegal hasn't helped one bit, but it makes some THINK they are doing something about the real problem, which they aren't.
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