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Porn has become a popular scapegoat for a lot of the world’s problems.
If people are having too much sex it’s because porn has worked them up into a violent fervor and if they’re having too little sex it’s because porn has desensitized them to arousing situations. Porn just can’t catch a break. Now even Scotland, birth place of scotch, has their sights set on it. With sex crimes on the rise, including those committed by younger people, many Scottish politicians are looking to blame the availability of internet pornography. The most popular call to action is that which has already been discussed in Great Britain – an opt-out porn blocker at the ISP level.
According to parliament member Jo Swinson:
“It’s very difficult to pin down exactly what is causing these attitudes by young people, but given that there’s very easily available pornography online — and not just the lads mag, page three images, but really explicit, hardcore pornography — it’s not hard to imagine that it helps to create a warped view of relationships.”
Nobody is even sure that online porn has anything to do with this surge in sex crimes, but because it’s the most easily identifiable cause everyone assumes dropping the ban hammer will fix everything. Swinson goes on to address the possibility of an opt-in system where the filters are disabled by default and parents need only sign up for it, however, parents taking action is sort of the problem in the first place.
According to a report done, one in 10 parents don’t have any content filtering software installed, and nearly 70 percent admitted that they didn’t know how to monitor their children’s online habits.
Now there’s your problem.
Via Xbiz.com
