Utah officially deems porn a public health crisis

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Cirio said:

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So what exactly is Utah planning to do? Ban the internet? Censor websites like they're communist China or North Korea?

You can't really do anything without violating the constitution and free speech, and porn addiction ... whoopity doo. Really, stop jerking off if porn addiction is such a big issue in your life. No one's dying from porn addiction, no one's getting killed by a porn impaired driver. 

Judging by the amount of obese people, "food addiction" is about 10000000x a bigger problem and legitimate health concern, but again what are you going to do? Ban hamburgers and pizza? 

You have to realize that when you and I were growing up, we had to deal with shitty dial-up internet and we didn't have access to internet as readily as today. Kids growing up nowadays have access to high speed internet everywhere, and as the article stated, a kid could snatch McDonald's wifi and stream porn. It is super accessible now, meaning that without proper guidance a child could develop porn addiction.

What Utah is trying to do is increase awareness about this addiction. So that when parents sit down to talk with their children about safe sex, or safe alcohol consumption, they should also talk about safe pornography usage. 

And it's not so easy to quit "jerking off" once you're addicted to porn, just like it's not so easy to "stop smoking" when you're addicted to smoking. This is about knowledge, and giving our children the tools to be safer with their life choices.

I think Utah's motives here are dubious here though. 

And honestly yes sure, porn addiction can suck, but really the only treatment is to literally stop jerking off. Smoking is much more powerful physical addiction.