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?
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