Blame porn. That seems to be the response of desperate legislators eager to avoid being held accountable for their states’ problems. Let’s start with Kansas: Last February the state senate passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis that “normalizes violence and abuse against women and children.” Problem is, that’s complete bullshit. According to the Huffington Post, Senate Resolution 1762 uses fake science to draw “false and misleading” conclusions.
Kansas senator Mary Pilcher-Cook (R-Shawnee), one of the resolution’s sponsors, cites a 2012 report by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCSE), a known antiporn group. In it they claim that consuming pornography leads to “adolescents viewing women as sex objects, supporting violence against women and having unprotected, dangerous sex.”
