Trump vows to crack-down on porn

[Johan]

Donald Trump Vows To Crack Down On Pornography




Donald Trump, who appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine and whose misogynistic comments might only be outnumbered by his racist remarks, has pledged to crack down on pornography if elected president.

Anti-pornography group Enough is Enough praised Trump’s “leadership” in an announcement Monday, after the Republican presidential nominee signed The Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge.

By doing so, Trump has promised not only to fight child pornography and sex trafficking, but “give serious consideration to appointing a Presidential Commission to examine the harmful public health impact of Internet pornography on youth, families and the American culture,” the nonprofit group said.

“Making the Internet safer for children and families is a critical step in making America safe again,” said Donna Rice Hughes, president and CEO of Enough is Enough in a statement, echoing one of Trump’s favorite campaign slogans.

Ironically, the announcement came as The New York Post featured on its cover ― not once, but twice ― risqué 1995 photographs reportedly showing Trump’s wife, Melania, in the nude.

While the pledge Trump signed on July 16 mainly pushes for protecting children from sexual exploitation online, the group behind it has been clear about its opposition to pornography of all kinds. Enough is Enough says on its website that it’s “dedicated to continue raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography” and in favor of “a society free from sexual exploitation,” among other things.

The group claims to have also sent the pledge to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who it said supports the document’s goals but declined to sign the declaration because of a campaign policy against adding her name to pledges. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson did not respond, the group said.

Hughes said the issue offers an opportunity for all parties to unite for the sake of protecting children.

“Over the last two decades America’s children have paid an unnecessarily steep price for the lax enforcement of federal obscenity laws,” she said in a statement. “Obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment, and the failure to enforce the law is harming children across the nation and around the world.”

And if Trump is elected president, Hughes is “confident” he’ll follow through on the commitments outlined in the group’s pledge, she told the Washington Examiner.

The real estate businessman’s newfound stance against pornography suddenly has him in agreement with the GOP on the issue.

The party adopted its official platform this month, which identifies porn as a national public health crisis. “Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions,” it states.

However, many of the former reality TV personality’s supporters are bewildered as to why the Republican Party is focusing on porn, as the above video shows.

Trump has come a long way in his views to suddenly prioritize doing away with “destructive” pornography. “I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl,’” he told Playboy in 2004. He proudly showed that magazine off at a rally days before signing the declaration.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ainst-pornography_us_57a00928e4b0e2e15eb701fc

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

Donna Rice Hughes is the Donna Rice of the Gary Hart scandal that ended his presidential bid.

Today it would enhance his chances.

If Reagan and Ed Meese couldnt end pornography, nobody will.

 

[sean miguel]

Donald Trump Vows To Crack Down On Pornography

good. you shouldn't be lookin at that stuff anyways.

 

[connie2755]

he must be after the Christian vote, but it's a dangerous thing, there are lots of people who like their porn, surely he wouldn't get rid of it all

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Guys married to a former nude model????
I The Donald vow to eat shit and die if elected potus.......

 

[Rey C.]

Donna Rice Hughes is the Donna Rice of the Gary Hart scandal that ended his presidential bid.

By golly, you're right. It is her.

Then:

Now:

For 58 or so, the old gal is still looking pretty darn fit.

 

[Luxman]

A ban on porn would only create kids that grow up to be sexually repressed and frustrated adults.

"six out of top 10 countries on the planet that watch the most porn are Muslim states"
All the religious sexual repression and frustration probably has an influence on radicalizing a lot of Muslim terrorists.

http://postober.com/general/top-10-countries-that-watch-the-most-porn/

 

[ArthurTurner]

He's. Not. Going. To. Win.

 

[BCT]

good. you shouldn't be lookin at that stuff anyways.

Taylor Rain Motherfucker.

 

[sean miguel]

Taylor Rain Motherfucker.

That's Taylor Motherfuckin' Rain



Which reminds me - I need to make a backup of the backup of the backup of all her stuff in case Trump does get elected and cracks down on porn. That, or we get invaded by North Korea, both of which are as likely to happen. One can only hope. Wolverines!

 

[pool_hustler]

If every woman had a butt like Taylor's there would be no need or time for conflict and war.

 

[sean miguel]

If every woman had a butt like Taylor's there would be no need or time for conflict and war.

But they don't. If Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, Taylor Rain's ass could launch a similar armada. I've definitely fired countless salvos to her.

 

[pool_hustler]

But they don't.

Sadly that's true. And imho the seed of all of the world's discord. Perhaps in the future, when human cloning becomes more accepted...

If Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, Taylor Rain's ass could launch a similar armada.

Yes! And yet, there'd be no need for them. Men everywhere would be in a near constant state of post orgasmic somnolence, with brief pizza breaks between rounds.

 

[Mario Cantone]

more rightwing hypocrisy and stupidity. and yet u rightwing sheep will still vote for him despite being porn addicts

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

more rightwing hypocrisy and stupidity. and yet u rightwing sheep will still vote for him despite being porn addicts

Man, if you are going to create a new account at least make an attempt to not be just like the one that got you banned :1orglaigh

 

[knowone]

Related anti porn actions:
http://avn.com/business/articles/legal/nti-porn-utah-takes-heat-from-penthouse-mag-693715.html
Anti-Porn Utah Takes Heat From Penthouse Mag
CHATSWORTH, Calif.—The cover of the July/August issue of Penthouse screams, “Utah’s Governor Wants To Handle Your Penis”— an obvious attention-getter; more so than the article’s actual title, “The Mormon War On Porn Is Coming For You”—and it certainly got the attention of a bunch of Utahns, from Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler, who proposed Concurrent Resolution 9, declaring porn a “public health crisis,” to Gov. Gary Hebert, who signed the bill in an elaborate ceremony on April 19 … to the Salt Lake Tribune, which first took notice of the issue.

The Penthouse story was written by Andy Campbell, having accepted an assignment from Penthouse owner Kelly Holland after she saw an article on the same topic that Campbell had written for the Huffington Post—and it’s a doozy!

Longtime adult industry members are well aware of Utah’s official anti-porn stance, despite the fact that the state also accounts for the largest per capita number of subscriptions to adult websites. After all, it was Utah that first created the official position of “porn czar,” and several seminars and conventions to discuss the “harms of porn” have been held in the state in recent years, most with the aid of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which had a major role in writing Weiler’s resolution.....

 

[sean miguel]

Obama's Porn Problem With Liberals


The president axed a team of Feds charged with fighting adult obscenity on the Web, and it’s not just the right that’s upset. McKay Coppins on the liberal case for cracking down on porn.
If you know where to search, it doesn’t take much Googling to find photos of women having sex with farm animals, videos that graphically depict simulated rape, or actresses made to look 13 years old performing sex acts on adult men.

It’s disturbing stuff, to be sure—and it may even be illegal.

But this week, news broke that the Obama administration had quietly shuttered the only Justice Department unit that exclusively fought adult obscenity (defined as criminally offensive material that has no “serious literary, political, artistic, or medical value”). Amid a flurry of criticism, administration officials defended the move, arguing that limited resources would be better spent prosecuting cases of child exploitation. Meanwhile, conservatives such as Sen. Orrin Hatch seized the opportunity to accuse the White House of being soft on hardcore porn.

At first, it all seemed like another formulaic episode in the culture war: the religious right crusading against smut peddlers in the name of “family values”; liberals rolling their eyes at puritanical Republicans and their censorship-happy agenda. But a closer look at the events reveals a kink in the common narrative—and a potential shift in culture-war battle lines.

Earlier this month, 42 senators signed a letter urging Attorney General Eric Holder to step up enforcement of federal obscenity laws. Among the cast of mostly Republican signers, one name stood out: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a staunch liberal from California, the de-facto porn capital of America. (Feinstein wasn’t available to comment for this story.)

She wasn’t alone: five other Senate Democrats, including Minnesota’s left-wing warrior, Amy Klobuchar, also signed the letter, and they were applauded by feminists, leftist lawyers, and liberal academics. Together, this increasingly vocal segment of progressives is making the case that hardcore porn flies in the face of cherished liberal causes—and that Democrats should be leading the charge to take down its distributors.

“To be anti-porn is a progressive principle”

The Daily Beast reached out to several liberal anti-porn advocates and asked them to explain why defending adult obscenity is incompatible with liberal principles. Here, we summarize the left’s case against hardcore porn.


It’s Anti-Feminist

“To be anti-porn is a progressive principle,” says Dr. Gail Dines, author of the 2010 book Pornland. “The progressive position is that we’re opposed to anything that produces inequality, and porn absolutely feeds into sexual inequality—creates it, amplifies it, and justifies it.”

As a professor at Wheelock College, a liberal arts school in Massachusetts, Dines is not lacking for feminist credentials. She has devoted the majority of her scholarly research to exposing sexism, and frequently lectures on how the media promote gender bias. She has no patience for the trendy argument that porn actually promotes female empowerment. On the contrary, she argues, the violent brand of smut that the Justice Department is ignoring poisons the public perception of gender relations.

“It legitimizes the idea that men have all the power over women,” she says. “In pornography, women don’t need good housing and fair pay; all they need is body-punishing sex. They’re not human beings.”

Dr. Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington, says that by glorifying violent sexual fantasies, hardcore porn makers can encourage naturally violent men to act on their urges: “That combination of explicit sexual scenarios and a proclivity for violence against women is combustible.”

It Makes Sex Ed Irrelevant

Along the same lines, Dines says comprehensive sex education—long a rallying cry among liberals—is competing with hardcore porn sites to shape young boys’ attitudes toward sex.

“We know that at age 14, the vast majority of boys have looked at porn and probably masturbated to it,” says Dines. “Literally their first introduction to sex is sites like bangedbabbysitters.com. These aren’t adult men who can compare what they see to reality. They’re young and vulnerable.”

And while liberal sex ed advocates say condom-on-banana demonstrations can help prevent such tragedies as teenage pregnancy or adolescent STDs, Dines says the twisted messages that underlie violent porn can be just as dangerous as sexual naïveté.

“In hardcore porn, the more horrible and hateful you treat a woman, the better and bigger her orgasm,” Dines says. “How can a boy masturbate to women being abused, and then look at women in their lives and see them as regular people?”


It’s Racist

While racist depictions in mainstream media have dramatically declined over the years, Dines writes that contemporary pornography continues to “[get] away with a level of racism that is breathtaking in its contempt and loathing for people of color.” No stereotype is off-limits. Black women are depicted as mouthy ghetto-dwellers who need a dominant man to cure them of their “attitude.” Asian girls are subservient, obedient, and bred for male pleasure. Latinas are debased by their poverty, thus making them accessible to any man with a few bucks.

Given progressives’ historical role in the civil rights movement, Dines says, it’s absurd that the left would stand up for distributors of such racially offensive material.


It Can Actually Limit Free Speech

Traditionally, what’s drawn liberals to defend hardcore porn is a passion for the First Amendment. But John Kang, a law professor at St. Thomas University in Florida, argues that it’s precisely this commitment to civil liberties that should motivate liberals to crack down on distributors.

“It’s fashionable in the contemporary Supreme Court to justify protection of violent hardcore pornography as the ability of men to realize themselves through some artistic format,” Kang says. “But this is nothing but pure, pathological violence against women.”

He echoes Schwartz’s concern that such material can motivate abuse, assault and even rape: “If enough mentally unstable men watch this and want to recreate it, this actually represents a clear and present danger against women”—a constitutional exception to the First Amendment.

Or to put it another way, allowing the freedom of violent expression could suppress the freedom of innocent victims. As Kang wrote in a 2008 paper, this is a case where “the free speech of men silences the free speech of women.”

Of course, it’s unlikely that the White House will be moved to change its position by such a relatively small minority of liberals—especially as it gears up to fight another potential first amendment battle involving the FEC.

But porn opponents on the left, such as Dines, are characterized by their evangelism, and they’re hopeful that the lower the porn industry sinks, the more their message will resonate. In the end, she says, the progressive case against hardcore porn has little to do with the Judeo-Christian views of sexuality espoused by the right.

“Corporate-owned media is designed to legitimize economic inequality,” says Dines. “I would argue porn does the same thing when it comes to sex. You want sex to be fun and meaningful. You want your sexual autonomy to be your own, not some corporation’s.” Spoken like a true liberal.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...liberals-who-want-adult-obscenity-fought.html

It's been my experience that those on the far left are more holier-than-thou and want to impose their values than any bible-thumper fundamentalist. Because they know what's best for us.

 

[BCsSecretAlias]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...liberals-who-want-adult-obscenity-fought.html

It's been my experience that those on the far left are more holier-than-thou and want to impose their values than any bible-thumper fundamentalist. Because they know what's best for us.

Especially their religion of man made climate change.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Especially their religion of man made climate change.

Or their 'going to get our guns' myth.
N.R.A.'s favorite donor surge chant.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

Although an old thread it seemed like the best plsce to post this. Remonds me of how it was officailly 50 years ago when I was inb High School I epect that the Trumpistas would like to see a return to this:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-high-school-issuing-refunds-135846685.html
I find it not the least bit surprising it is in Florida.