This year, Alabama has become the most recent state to recognize pornography as a public health crisis. In the article Alabama Recognizes Pornography as a Public Health Crisis from endsexualexploitation.org, Dawn Hawkins, Executive Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation is stated as saying, “Alabama has become the 16th state to formally recognize the harmful effects of pornography on public health. Modern pornography—with its limitless quantity, speed, and violent or degrading themes—is a jarring new variable in human development. It’s not surprising that such a variable would have negative effects on brains and bodies built for person-to-person sexual contact. Medical professionals, elected officials, therapists and more are beginning to acknowledge the universal harms of pornography.”
Other states have introduced similar legislation, like Ohio House Resolution 180 which also seeks to "declare that pornography is a public health hazard with statewide and national public health impacts leading to a broad spectrum of individual and societal harms." So far there have been three hearings and the matter is advancing in committee.
More state are expected to follow.
Please see our blog post Could Porn Be A Public Health Crisis? to learn more.
Read the full article Alabama Recognizes Pornography as a Public Health Crisis here:
Read the Ohio legislation here:
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