Tue Jan 3, 2023 – 10:41 am ESTTue Jan 3, 2023 – 10:45 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Digital pornography is one of the great scourges of our time, with a majority of young people—including minors—getting addicted to depraved sexual material before they are old enough to vote, drink, or drive. The average age of first exposure to pornography has dropped precipitously over the past decade, with most children first encountering it around age 11. Much of what they see is now brutal and violent. The videos and images are no longer simply sexual—they usually depict degradation and abuse of a sort not imaginable to their grandparents and inaccessible to previous generations.
It is long past time that politicians took meaningful action to protect children (and adults) from this pernicious, predatory, and powerful industry. J.D. Vance, who has since been elected a U.S. senator in Ohio, told me in an interview in 2021 that contrary to popular belief, there are things that can be done. “Some of these fixes aren’t going to be easy, but it requires the political willpower for us to say enough is enough,” he noted. “This is not magic. The idea that you
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