Great Falls anti-porn group hails Utah legislature resolution

A Great Falls-based nonprofit organization has hailed a Utah legislative initiative calling pornography a public health crisis.

On Feb. 5, a Utah State Legislature resolution on the “public health crisis of pornography” passed unanimously through committee.

Great Falls ’ Enough Is Enough organization, which calls itself a “national, non-partisan non-profit with a mission to make the Internet safer for children and families by advancing solutions that promote equality, fairness and respect for human dignity with shared responsibility between the public, technology and the law,” says it applauds the Utah initiative declaring the public health crisis caused by pornography.

“This unanimous landmark decision shows the courage and conviction of a legislative body to deal with unpopular and often misunderstood social justice issues such as pornography,” Enough Is Enough said in a release. “Unfortunately, deviant and extreme Internet pornography has become increasingly more mainstream due to few barriers of entry since 1994 when we launched the national movement for prevention solutions to protect children from prosecutable content online.”

Enough Is Enough went on to say that since that time, numerous peer-reviewed research studies continue to reveal that Internet pornography use is a fueling factor in the sexual exploitation of children, violence against women, sex trafficking, sexual and erectile dysfunction and physiological and chemical changes in the brain.

“A shared responsibility between the public, Corporate America and government is necessary to curb the continuous flood of Internet pornography in our nation. Now that science backs up the reality of Internet pornography's harm to children, adults and cultures, we are hopeful that other states will address this serious issue very soon," the organization wrote in its release.