This is not new, since Iceland is banning pornography.
To be honest, though, there are reasons behind this. A lot of wimmen were hurt due to the porn industry, being left with emotional voids, neglect, and sicknesses, leading to substance abuse and even suicide. Some wimmen even reported abuse and rape while on their jobs! (
https://www.shelleylubben.com/ex-porn-star-neesa-story ) Then again, since when did the pornography industry care about safety? (
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/porn-producers-in-uproar-over-new-l.a.-health-ordinance/ ) Also, consider recent reports on how increasingly younguer children are engaging in crimes of an intimate nature (
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/po...itish-children-into-sex-offenders-report-says ). Simply telling parents to up their protections or teach them harder is ignorance on our increasingly perverted society (foe example: Beyonce's bit in the latest Super Bowl) making harder for parents to prevent these things.
To be honest, pornography is not similar to say, eating, since eating is vital to our bodies. Pornography (not actually engaging in 'the friendship of the thighs' for real) is, to the average end user, a diversion and no more, not fulfilling any real need. In fact, pornography reprograms the minds, deviating from wonderful relationships.
Also, talk about 'freedom of speech' is an excuse to abuse a right. After all, any judgement coming against, say, sexist remarks would make a value judgement against the freedom of speech applying to sexist remarks.
Besides, if pornography was harmless, then why prevent children from viewing the stuff?
Any argument you have about preventing children from pornography denotes a value judgement against the harmlessness of the stuff.
Also, no; I should not expect this to fully ban such a lucrative project, but the thing will serve to at least shrink the problem. Besides, people tend to see to laws for moral guidance, whether the laws are truly moral or not.
'The friendship of the thighs' is a beautiful thing. Society just made things dirty.
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[R]ecall that Europe wanted to put a ban on pornography for wimmen's rights, since the pornography industry is far from kind to them, even being deep into prostitution. Or again, awakening the passions of a child early is just not right for their development. I can see these same forces behind this pornography ban.[...]
Either way, I foresee a type of fight between the Internet who wants 'freedom of speech' and 'protection of our industry' and the highers-up who want to protect wimmen and children. I think that, if the highers-up have their ways, they would end up implementing the porn ban they wanted to hold up in the first place, that is, either their original plans or through a technicality (that is, every European nation who would have been affected by the original ban upholding their own bans).