Utah Gov. Gary Herbert kick-started a national debate recently by declaring pornography “a public health hazard” that leads to a “broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and social harms.”
Smut peddler Larry Flynt responded by announcing he would mail free copies of Hustler magazine to members of the Utah state legislature. He insisted pornographers are “no danger to the public, only to the repressed.”
However, a number of studies indicate pornography is strongly linked to sexual aggression. Other experts argue it functions like an addiction, similar to drugs....
