Senate Commerce Committee hearing on pornography

Your tax dollars at work. Addiction to porn destroying lives, Senate told.

Comparing pornography to heroin, researchers on Thursday called on Congress to finance studies on "porn addiction" and launch a public health campaign about the dangers. [...]

Internet pornography is corrupting children and hooking adults into an addiction that threatens their jobs and families, a panel of anti-porn advocates told the hearing organized by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., chairman of the Commerce subcommittee on science. [...]

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of a sexual trauma program at the University of Pennsylvania, said pornography's effect on the brain mirrors addiction to heroin or crack cocaine. She told of one patient, a business executive, who arrived at his office at 9 a.m. each day, logged onto Internet porn sites, and didn't log off until 5 p.m.

This sounds bogus. Shooting heroin or smoking crack rarely makes me feel like masturbating.

Layden called for billboards and bus ads warning people to avoid pornography, strip clubs and prostitutes. [...]

Judith Reisman, a vocal critic of the Kinsey Institute and the field of sexology, suggested Congress require police officers to gather evidence of pornography at crime scenes to further research.

Would this law cover CSI too? That would rock.

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