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A measure introduced by state Rep. Michelle Udall (R) passed through the Arizona House Committee on Health & Human Services on Thursday, the first hurdle in its path to a full vote, AZ Central reported.
The symbolic measure has no legal effect but states that porn "perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society."
"Like the tobacco industry, the pornography industry has created a public health crisis," Udall told lawmakers, according to the outlet. "Pornography is used pervasively, even by minors."
Udall's resolution states that children being exposed to widely available porn on the internet can lead to "low self-esteem, eating disorders and an increase in problematic sexual activity at ever-younger ages."
Arizona ranks fourth-lowest in the U.S. for offering comprehensive sexual education in middle school, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The measure points to research that has shown pornography to be biologically addictive.
"Potential detrimental effects on pornography users include toxic sexual behaviors, emotional, mental and medical illnesses and difficulty forming or maintaining intimate relationships," the measure states.
The proposal also says excessive access to porn can lead to extreme or violent sexual behaviors.
It "normalizes violence and the abuse of women and children by treating them as objects, increasing the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution and child porn," the measure reads.
Democrats argued that porn addiction has become a problem but said the resolution did not prove with scientific evidence that the state needs to declare a public health crisis, the outlet noted.
"There are statements in here that seem hyperbolic and unproven," Rep. Kelli Butler (D) said. "I just don't think there's necessarily the science to back up those claims."
The measure will soon be presented for a vote in the GOP-majority Arizona House of Representatives. It would not require the signature of Gov. Doug Ducey (R) if it passes through both the Arizona House and Senate, AZ Central noted.
Similar measures have been passed in 11 states declaring porn a public health crisis, according to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
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The unwary can be induced to self-destructive acts in exchange for illusions of paradise.
If you don't know the transparency of yielding to love, then you don't know the dangers of Trojan horseplay.
" Slavery is freedom!" to be framed in giving life and power that that which makes you powerless and therefore inclined to defend as a right and freedom until a fundamental self-honesty awakens.
Substitutions, or fake truth uses the forms and symbols of life to gratify private agenda - which becomes the tail that wags the dog.
Sexual communication, of relational love-play, is not pornographic. But anything marketised and weaponised runs the same core racket. Some illusions are more heavily defended than others and therefore are idols to which the living are sacrificed.
How the law can hold FOR Life in respect to our freedoms of honouring relationship, without itself becoming anti-sexual is not a matter of virtue signalling of polarised identities.
Pornography is used to capture and manipulate 'assets' who are then compromised in their ability to serve their responsibilities in office and of course to their own freedom of will.
If there was a porn amnesty - like a willingness to cancel debts - for the shared good of a fresh start - would a major basis for corruption be weakened? Despite assertions of scientific and liberal voices to the contrary, there is still intense guilt and aggression associated with sex - and fantasies of guiltless sex operate on 'escape' or regression by the avoidance or relationship rather than its renewal in sharing Life.
Where there is guilt and fear, there is deceit and manipulation, within ourselves, and then through us, because we are not being true to ourselves and become vulnerable.
Worshipping an image in place of the true of life, is deeply predicated in our psyche. I am not interested in guilting people for feeling and moving with their desires - where there is no violation of the rights and freedoms of another as a result. But becoming aware that narcissus is fixated in his or her own image - is the only point from which the heart's call can then be directly recognized. Otherwise it is confused with the gratification or promise of a fulfilment or hit that becomes a lather rinse and repeat conditioner.
There is a conversation that is not had because of polarised identity defences.
The Internet is a mass distributed delivery system - and cyber war includes the ability to plant incriminating data onto remote computers as well as logging search history, Urls, timestamps and ip addresses - and being able to trawl that for granular or mass analysis.
Free sweets are groundbait.
There are always consequences - and an inner relational honesty is likely the best vigilance against being framed or deceived to serve another's agenda while believing you are making free choices.
Truly, what something is, depends on what it is being used for. In itself it has no meaning - but the givers and the receivers all give it the meaning it has. But much of this is targeting already active but un-integrated desires, fears and shames, so as to promote them as a resource and leverage for money and power. Buyer beware - and your attention is already a gift of love - whether you recognise that or not. We all pay attention to what we value because we give it attention - whether apparently positive or apparently negative or running in shifting reversals.
But in any case, stop dumping blame on Eve by slutting the feminine as if to get it out of your own system. It isn't sex that is dirty, but what it becomes when it is used as a weapon, as a power trip, or as a false lure to entrapment.
There is no shame in our starting place, in terms of awakening willingness for a true fulfilment in place of secrets and lies.






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