Porn: yes or no? A Choice at the Internet Service Provider & Cellular Company

I think this would actually enhance the 1st Amendment. People would have a choice to either augment their values and morality by promoting and choosing "No", or to augment the opposite - debauchery, moral insolvency, promiscuity, etc.

We have to be extremely serious about it.

If not, the choice to keep it as it is leaves it available; like owning a gun and having kids without a safe.

 

The market has spoken. Porn is available everywhere. People want more of it.

Porn... YES.

 

The rhetoric though seems to conflict with a strong set of values for our young people and continuity of our ethical systems, etiquette, relationship dynamics, and marriage uninterrupted.

 

This is not a new argument.

Porn is a hot button issue, but it never goes away.

More people make porn now than ever before. It used to be a few studios and performers. Now, anyone with access to the internet can produce content.

It can't be regulated.

 

Well, yea we could. It would make it a choice, albeit an inconvenient one. I side with the good in this...

The system for understanding is based in a set of values from the old. These days we're quite accustomed to continuing access.

When I was a teen, this was new and I remember something about that...

Not only did we have strict notions from our fathers, but we in some ways understood this differently. Let me offer the example of a small-town video store prior to the invention of DVD...

There was adult content! It was a thing, very niche, and available locally. To go into the adult section was regarded a little strangely... You sort of needed a nose ring and a leather jacket.

And you could rent an adult movie. I used to rent video games from the same store that had that and any blockbuster (no pun intended) film release.

But not every city had such. It was native to a specific city, though I suspect it was likely more common in more populous cities.

My point is that at one time it was a guarded topic, was not guaranteed, and was not included by default.

When I was a child, there were certain newspaper dispensers that had within an adult oriented newspaper of sorts. There were magazines at liquor stores.

And then came the internet. What?! That's right! XXX by default. Right?

Well, not exactly. Those weren't the norms I knew.

And now I can see a different way.

We CAN change the way this is offered. If at the base level free speech is guaranteed, so too can be a system of understanding; this is adult content for mature audiences, we know it has implications for values and morality, and we know it isn't for kids, nor husbands, nor fathers, never mind CEOs, clergy, and whichever else.

That is a good place to stop and offer a choice.

These people, people who otherwise might struggle to keep it out of their way, people who otherwise might be tempted, the new husband, the new father, the boss, and everyone else too,

can make a choice. It gets to stop before it begins. It's less tempting to opt-out than it is "not click" or now with touch screen phones and tablets, "not tap".

And there seems to be an ongoing expectation that people are responsible about not partaking. A campaign of ridicule or some monitoring. A bizarre subliminal reminder here and there...

What I mean is to choose outright. After that, it's done. People will opt-in and then one day there will be significant reason to opt-out; marriage, parenthood, spirituality, and so on.

And then nothing can hold you back. You can feel good about it every time.

I promise you that will work.

At the ISP there might be a law for certain types of content to register so that the ISP can provide a 'with or without' or instead maybe a "G, PG, R or opt-in" option.