There has been a renewed effort recently to “prove” pornography is dangerous both to its consumers and to victims of sexual assault.

Today, antiporn campaigners compare porn-viewers to drug addicts, and describe pornography as a “health crisis.” Even the most recent Republican party platform declared: “Pornography, with its harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions.” Pamela Anderson and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach seem to be the two latest antiporn evangelists. They warn that porn has become a “public hazard of unprecedented seriousness,” that threatens to produce an entire generation “inured to intimacy and in need of even greater graphic stimulation.”

Much as in the 1970s and 1980s,... Read More