> Porn will never be a replacement for sex education. I'd also venture that "sex education" will never be a replacement for parenting. The problem with pornog

> Porn will never be a replacement for sex education. I'd also venture that "sex education" will never be a replacement for parenting. The problem with pornography is that it treats sexual relations solely as pleasure-seeking or entertainment. Sex can be those things, but at its best it is more prominently an expression of intimacy and trust between partners. By definition, pornography can never show this aspect of sex. The problem with laws against pornography has little to do with the quality or worthlessness of their target. The problem with these laws has everything to do with societal and governmental mechanisms it creates to control people's behavior. Such mechanisms, once emplaced are guaranteed to be misused by people with authority. Maybe not at first, but it has always happened, always, throughout the history of humankind. The current proposed law against pornography is pretty bald-faced about the mechanism it intends to create. A total censor infrastructure, mandated and controlled by government, on every internet-connected device. For a fee you'd be able to register yourself for turning the censor off. Later, you won't be able to "register" out. Later the definition of pornography will change. The scope of the program will expand, and soon it will be news and political thought that's getting suppressed by those filters. Such laws must be fought against. But so too should the ridiculous oversexualization of everything in daily life. Maybe it is inappropriate to be joking about 5 year-olds having a boyfriend or girlfriend. Maybe that commercial for hamburgers should only be about the quality of the food. Maybe there shouldn't be a special line of clothing just for "pulling" people at a dance club. But none of those things has anything to do with laws, nor should they. They have to do with morals and values. They have to be taught and subscribed to, by an awful lot of people. The most likely teachers for morals and values are parents.