Yes, your tax dollars are hard at work again. Senator Sam Brownback (R-Leviticus) chaired a subcommittee hearing today where a witness claimed that web-based porno can have a worse impact than addiction to crack cocaine, and that the Internet is actually a massive "drug delivery system" for "erototoxins."
Brownback said porn was ubiquitous now, compared to when he was growing up and some guy would sneak a magazine in somewhere and show some of us, but you had to find him at the right time."So I take it in his youth, Brownback was just a casual user of erototoxins?
Also testifying at the hearing was one of the wackjobs from the thoroughly de-bunked ex-gays movement, Jeffery Satinover:
Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause direct release of the most perfect addictive substance," Satinover said. "That is, it causes masturbation, which causes release of the naturally occurring opioids. It does what heroin can't do, in effect."Seriously, have you ever heard of anyone so incredibly obsessed with porn? And WE are the people that need help?
The internet is dangerous because it removes the inefficiency in the delivery of pornography, making porn much more ubiquitous than in the days when guys in trench coats would sell nudie postcards, Satinover said.
