Last year, almost to the day, I started this blog, and posted 3 short posts before forgetting all about it and getting busy. I didn't thing about it much, until this morning. Go back a week. My husband is currently participating in NANOWRIMO. He wakes up at 5 am, work permitting, and tries to get his creative juices flowing, and get back into the novel he's been writing (read: thinking about writing) since before I met him. One night we were talking about writing, and I honestly couldn't think of anything I would write about. I feel my creative juices flow more towards the visual arts, and could not think of a single instance where I thought, "Hey, that would make a great book." I've thought that about art projects or " I could use this in that" projects. But never, "I could write about that."
That was until this morning. I guess I just needed to find something I felt deeply about? Something I could get behind, and study, and write about. It was the presidential petition about "Opting In" to porn. There are several glaring problems with this idea, not the least of which is that the American government is far too large and inefficient, and giving it power over this problem, is, well, absurd. If we give them power to censor out porn, what else will get censored out as "inappropriate." This assumes, of course that blocking porn nationally is at all feasible.
It's not. It really isn't. Not 100%. There are filters available to instal on your private computer, and you can control what you and your family can and cannot look at. YOU have the power. Not some government entity. Also, if there were to be a law passed censoring porn, it would raise the price on internet for everyone. I am not an expert on the subject, this is part one of four of an article by a friend of mine, who has vastly more expertise on the subject.
I do not know everything about this subject, but this is what I do know. Porn has a destructive influence on men, women, and families, and should be avoided at all costs. It is the responsibility of us, as parents guardians, and decent human beings to protect those we love from its addictive grasps. If we give this task to anyone else: a government, ISP, or institution, it will be more expensive, and less beneficial than we believe. Giving away our rights, obligations, and privileges, for the sake of promised security will not make us more secure, only less free.
