2017 Porn resolution passes Tennessee Senate.

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Porn resolution passes Tennessee Senate

A joint resolution in the Tennessee General Assembly condemning pornography as a "public health crisis" that is making men less interested in marrying passed unanimously in the Senate on Monday.

The nonbinding resolution was sponsored by Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, and was passed without any discussion on the Senate floor. It calls for education, policy change, prevention and research on the negative effects of pornography.

Specially, the resolution says that more millennials are exposed to porn at a younger age, causing eating disorders, and that "children and youth are exposed to pornography that often times serves as their sex education and shapes their sexual templates."

The resolution will now be sent to Gov. Bill Haslam's desk for approval.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/06/porn-resolution-passes-tennessee-senate/98830004/

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. hmmm, wonder how much the sponsor's name had to do with any of this. Guess its open

season

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3. 'fiscally responsible' republicans wasting taxpayer money

[HAB911]

2. Mae Beavers

Really?!

[BeyondGeography]

5. Yeah, kinda jumps out at ya, doesn't it?

[Yavin4]

13. I've seen that movie

Pretty good plot for a porn.

[Initech]

4. Gotta keep making those babies!

[Yavin4]

15. Yes. Keep making and having them.

But don't pay for their health, education, and general welfare.

[LonePirate]

6. This passed unanimously? Please tell me the Dems boycotted this ridiculous vote.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. I swear when I saw Mae Beavers, I knew this was The Onion.

I just knew it.


Those poor writers. How can they compete in this environment?

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9. the jokes write themselves.....

[ismnotwasm]

8. Jesus I am NO fan of the porn industry or its products

But this is just dumb.

[PJMcK]

10. Their concern for children would be touching but for their hypocrisy

The Tennessee General Assembly is concerned that "children and youth are exposed to pornography that often times serves as their sex education and shapes their sexual templates." Yet they gut health and sexual education.

These hypocrites wasted their time on this non-binding resolution that does nothing. Will Governor Haslam have a big bill-signing event?

Incidentally, in one study, the people of Tennessee were among the top ten viewers of pornography in the United States.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/which-state-watched-most-porn-2016/

[rogue emissary]

12. Wonder what group is behind this legislation?

Virginia and South Dakota passed resolutions with the exact language last month.

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. She looks exactly like the kind of person who has the strong desire to tell others what to do.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Well, isn't that special?

[EL34x4]

17. "that is making men less interested in marrying"

Because no married man ever looks at porn.

[metalbot]

18. For those of you reacting negatively to this, how many of you have actually read the resolution?

http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/110/Bill/SJR0035.pdf

Aside from a few clauses that I'd take issue with, it's reasonably well written, has some good points, and basically at the end says "we should figure out what to do".

I'd be willing to assert that most people here would agree that:

1. With the rise of the internet, pornography is more pervasive in our lives today than it might have been 20 years ago.
2. Kids are exposed to more pornography at younger ages, unless you take significant steps to monitor and control their internet usages.
3. In the absence of actual sex ed, pornography becomes sex ed.
4. Pornography doesn't, for the most part, portray sex or sexuality in the way that most people have sex.
5. Some people get addicted to pornography.
6. People who are addicted to pornography are adversely impacted, and their families can be adversely impacted.
7. Like anything else that is an addiction, this should be treated as a "health problem".
8. You don't have to have a huge portion of your population affected in order for something to be a crisis.

Now, if the next steps are "we should ban adults from watching pornography", then I'm concerned.

Is it the assertion of the people who are opposed to this that we should not do any research into the impacts of pornography, on the basis that pornography, when produced and consumed by adults, is protected speech? Are we asserting that we NOT try to figure out how to avoid exposing kids to pornography? Or are we asserting that "the free market" will somehow sort this out? Sometimes I get confused which message board I'm on...

I could certainly make an argument that "there are other problems that our nation should be worried about right now", but that's doesn't feel like the sentiment that I'm reading from other responses.

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21. "Pornography becomes sex ed."

I'm asking because I don't know (though I have a sneaking suspicion that if I guessed, it would be correct), but how comprehensive is the Tennessee sex education program for the young uns?

[Adrahil]

19. Disassembling ACA is a public health crisis....

limiting access to women's healthcare is a public health crisis.

Rubbing one out is NOT a public health crisis.

[Orrex]

20. I hope that the legislation reins in some of the racier erotic fiction

I mean, this guy really has a thing for boobs:

1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy Navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Hubba hubba!