With all due respect, this is pretty Ridiculous.
By Jeff Emanuel Posted in Congress — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
With all due respect to RedState-endorsed Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), this is simply ridiculous. From a message I got this morning:
Subject: Family Fragments :: Fighting Pornography, Saving the Family: Are you subsidizing pornography?Rep. Broun (GA-10) has submitted HR 5821 which would remove pornography from PX and BX shops on military bases. Most products at these shops are subsidized by your tax dollars.
Recent peer reviewed research shows that men who view pornography are 3 times more likely to have an affair. Our military families have a difficult enough time as it is without having to deal with the psychological effects of pornography addiction.
Help support Congressman Broun. Tell your representative to sign on as a co-sponsor of HR 5821.
Now, I love me some Paul Broun, but this is really -- for lack of a better word -- dumb.
Read on.
The only "pornography" allowed to be sold at military bases is Playboy magazine -- hence the roaring trade in sex "literature" and video shops just outside of military base gates the country and world over.
Surely there is something better that a Constitutionally-governing Representative like Paul Broun could be focusing on than further sexually frustrating American service men and women, while attempting to hold them to a higher reading-material standard than the rest of the nation.
Further, speaking of "peer-reviewed studies," I'd be interested in seeing one that evaluated the prevalence of print-pornography consumption vs. that of online pornography. I'm betting that the latter is far more commonly viewed, including on military bases.
Is an on-post cyberfilter going to be the next suggestion from the usually-libertarian-leaning Rep. Broun?
Which aren't (to my knowledge) filtered. They weren't when I last lived on a post and had an internet connection, in 2001.
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!
Recent peer reviewed research shows that men who view pornography are 3 times more likely to have an affair.
Is this a complaint? Or an endorsement?
Betcha "Big Porn" will be using that as a marketing quote as soon as they see it.
During WWII, the Greatest Generation was a tremendous consumer of prostitution. The huge numbers of servicemen in Hawaii forced the military to regulate prostitution. But even in remote and straight-laced Utah, the Victory Girls associated with the military bases were tolerated because; "As long as the activity was out of sight from most of the public the city fathers turned a blind eye to the goings-on, in part because it eased some of the pressure on their daughters."
If prostitution didn't corrupt our soldiers then, I don't see how Playboy magazine is a threat to our soldiers now.
"Austere, intolerant, well-armed, and blood-thirsty, in their own regions the Wahhabis are a distinct factor which must be taken into account" - Winston Churchill, 1921
"Is an on-post cyberfilter going to be the next suggestion from the usually-libertarian-leaning Rep. Broun?"
Soldiers have few options on post for their internet needs. Either they are on the .mil network and are filtered or they are on the MWR network which is filtered, or the Library net which is filtered. The only option available to soldiers on post is to get there own ISP, and those are limited to those ISP's that have a contract with the individual post. Anyhow just some added background.
"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!