Opinion | Lux Alptraum: Pro-Trump conservatives decided the next front in their new culture war is porn - NBCNewsTHINK
Sitting next to me was Pamela Paul, author of the 2005 book"Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families." In Paul’s eyes, pornography — and internet pornography in particular — posed a serious threat to young people. The content online, she told students, wasn’t the innocent,"Playboy"-style fare of her youth, but a coarser, more vulgar form of obscenity.
Paul — now the editor of"The New York Times Book Review" — is hardly a Trump supporter, or even a conservative. Neither is, an NYU professor and director of"The Price of Pleasure," a frequently-cited documentary that portrays pornography as fundamentally abusive and harmful to women, who also appeared on that panel to make a case against porn.
But the liberal voices who’ve helped pave the way for the latest conservative assault on pornography might want to take a moment before further aligning themselves with this latest conservative cause. Because while panic about porn is an eternally bipartisan issue, it’s a partnership that rarely works out in liberals’ overall favor.
The political desire to censor, heavily regulate or ban pornography and criminalize adult industry rarely ends with that issue alone, because anti-porn conservatives are not one-issue conservatives.
By giving the conservative movement broader credibility in their advocacy against pornography, liberals only serve to strengthen other assaults on sexual freedom, undermining their own beloved causes in the process.
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