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Is Pornography the New Tobacco?

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

An article from Stanford's Hoover Institution think tank compares today's widespread acceptance of pornography to the early-1960s' acceptance of cigarette smoking. In the generations since the surgeon general's 1964 "Report on Smoking and Health," smoking has nosedived to become socially stigmatized, and this article in the Policy Review asks if the same might not happen to porn. 

 These thinkers at Stanford do of course bring up the fact that no one dies from looking at pornography online (other than proably a few mishaps reported here on Scanner) and loads of other factors that frankly we're too lazy to read on this springtime Friday afternoon. But should you be so inclined, it's all here in Is Pornography the New Tobacco?

Related: 

Freedom of (Stump) Speech Challenged by Anti-Exploitation Bill

 

College Students in Maryland Barred From Ever Seeing Porn

How The World Watches Porn Now


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About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Colleen Kane has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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