Lawmakers want to take porn away from sex offenders
Remember the often-repeated phrase by social conservatives that porn ruins lives? You know the one, where a husband and father becomes so obsessed with porn that he completely neglects his family in his addiction, an addiction that sends him spiralling into his own demise? Well, now they’re making the next (il)logical step: They want to ban sex offenders from having porn:
A pro-family organization in Cincinnati wants to stop sexual predators by making it illegal for convicted sex offenders to possess hardcore pornography.
Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values (CCV), said his group has proposed legislation that would make it against the law for a sex offender to possess obscene materials.
“They cannot possess it (or) buy it in any way, shape or form,” Burress told Family News in Focus. “If they’re caught with it and if they’re on probation, then they will go back to jail.”
When sex offenders get hold of pornography, he said, it inevitably leads to trouble.
Next we have the CCV listing something as “obvious” when it’s anything but:
“The connection between the use of pornography and sex crimes, especially where it involves children, is obvious,” he said, “though the other side always wants us to prove the correlation.”
Oh, yes. Correlation. Why would they want that? It’s only, you know, the way of proving something “obvious.” If we were to go by logical common-sense, then banning porn will only increase the sexual frustration of sexual offenders, the exact opposite of their intended effect.
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