Pornography – Page 3 – Family Council

Pornography Harms Children

May 30, 2024Jerry CoxDecency, VideoChild Welfare, Obscenity, Pornography, Video

Live Action recently released a video featuring Matt Fradd explaining how he became addicted to pornography when he was just 8 years old — leading to a decade long battle to overcome his addiction. Today he is one of the leading speakers on the harms of pornography.

Stories like this underscore the importance of legislation like Arkansas passed in 2023 requiring pornographic websites to use a government-issued ID or a commercially available age verification method to protect kids from pornographic material.

You can watch the video below.

Arkansas Authorities Investigating Possible AI-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material

May 20, 2024Jerry CoxTechnologyArtificial Intelligence, Child Welfare, Obscenity, Pornography

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recently reported police have charged an Amity man with possessing child sexual abuse material — some of which may have been generated through artificial intelligence.

The article says AI-generated child sex abuse material is not against state law, but in 2001 the Arkansas Legislature passed Act 1496 addressing computer exploitation of a child.

The law generally makes it a felony to produce or reproduce child sexual abuse material “by computerized means.”

At the time there was serious discussion about how computers and computer software could be used to manufacture child sexual abuse material.

Of course, in 2001 very few people could have imagined the artificial intelligence technology that exists today, but lawmakers recognized the need to address the issue — and Family Council supported the good law they passed.

As technology changes and artificial intelligence advances, lawmakers likely will need to enact new legislation to protect children.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

Guest Column: Avoiding Porn Is Weird to the World—Good

Nov 20, 2023John StonestreetDecencyObscenity, Pornography

Recently, Rolling Stone magazine reported on an emerging scandal involving the new speaker of the House of Representatives—not financial corruption, an illicit affair, or ties to foreign powers. No, it turns out that Mike Johnson and his son use the Covenant Eyes app to keep each other accountable about pornography and the internet.

According to Rolling Stone, this is weird. And, seizing on the article, others called it creepy, even grooming, as if they could not grasp that the point is to keep each other off of porn and out of addiction.

Not only did the whole episode reveal an utter ignorance of a basic belief of the world’s largest religion, it also betrayed how much a view of normal can be upside down, as if porn is not a cancer on society or a curse on women and children, corrupting the souls of those who consume it. 

If the Johnson boys’ behavior is weird, then as historian Tom Holland has reminded us, let’s stay “weird,” Christians.