If you are unfamiliar with Walter Hudson, then you are missing out on some genius hot takes and sober analysis of things going on in Minnesota. I am only recently acquainted and wish I’d found him a few months ago. His commentary on the anti-ICE protests and the shenanigans is outstanding and worth your time even now, after the winding down.
Pointing you to him is but part of the mission today. As the headline suggests, we are here to discuss a problem we’ve invested no small amount of time toward. We have deforested large swaths of digital trees in the course of injecting sanity, if not into at least a debate that should not even exist. Allowing minors access to pornography. Period. Any porn.
Pornography is bad for adults, their relationships, and how we perceive women in particular, and successful intimate relationships generally. It is one of the leading causes of ED (Not Electile Dysfunction, that’s something else) whose cure enriches big pharma and a host of third parties (HIMS, for example) without addressing underlying causes beyond porn consumption like diet, exercise, and (let’s not forget) porn.
If you like it, it is a hard habit to break, and it will make it harder for you to be you know what in the real world.
For many healthy adolescent and adult males, an unexpected consequence of heavy porn use is sexual dysfunction. Most often, this manifests as erectile dysfunction (ED), but porn-using males also sometimes struggle with delayed ejaculation (DE) and anorgasmia (the inability to reach orgasm). Depending on the research, anywhere from 17% to 58% of men who self-identify as heavy/compulsive/addicted users of porn struggle with some form of sexual dysfunction. Basically, research tells us that the more porn one uses, the more likely sexual dysfunction is.
Simply stated, growing numbers of physically healthy male porn users, including adolescents and men in their sexual prime, are struggling with various forms of sexual dysfunction—especially if/when they attempt to be sexual with a real-world partner.
Pornography is not education
For the record, I’m not telling adults they should or should not consume erotica. That’s between you and your real or imaginary wife or girlfriend. Some couples with otherwise healthy relationships might find a responsible way to include porn as part of foreplay. As a form of adult education. Be you just keep the kids out of it, but that’s not what this trans legislator believes, and as an elected official, it is safe to say they represent that movement, if not just the majority of voters who sent them to the State Capitol, so we could learn new things about LGBTQ kids and online porn.
Makes you shudder to think, and you should watch all of Walter’s Closing Argument to get his take. It’s good. As a sample, he suggests we imagine a world where everyone is heterosexual; would anyone suggest that the way teenagers should learn about sexuality is by watching commercial porn online?
No. We never have, did, or would, and those reasons apply with or without make-believe genders or the education that deliberately creates dysphoria in the minds of children who are nowhere near ready mentally or physically for any of it.
Access to commercial porn is the least best way to address the educational component of any discussion of minors’ and healthy adult human sexuality. And you are welcome to explore that tangent further, but I’m here to challenge my readers to take this into the real world. The taxpayer-funded world of politicians and so-called public servants. The people who pay their taxes with our taxes.
You have Democrats at all levels of government affirming things like this to varying degrees. We have teachers, administrators, and curriculum advisors injecting porn into the learning environment while opposing efforts to remove it, often on First Amendment grounds. We have parents defending it for reasons that suggest they were dropped on their heads as children or perhaps sexually abused themselves, such that the police should be investigating them as a possible threat to the well-being of children, even if they don’t have any.
Ask them. Do they agree with Leigh Finkey? Is it essential education? Or is this the redline, if you have one?
Ask them because I bet you will find they are unwilling to draw any redlines and will ignore you or just insult you and never answer the question, which we will take to mean they agree that porn is education and kids ought ot have access because they are doing that now and would like to elevate it but don’t think they can defend it.
