Utah Governor: Porn “is a public health hazard.”

Republican Governor Gary Hubert signs declaration, immediately goes back to googling “mormon lesbian mother daughter,” asks staff to “close that door!”


 

Welcome to Utah, everyone.  The American state with the highest per capita porn consumption:

 

Utah ranks No. 1 in subscriptions, according to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?,” published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

The most porn-watching ZIP codes in Utah, “with unexpectedly high subscriptions relative to their population and broadband usage,” are 84766 in Sevier County, 84112 in Salt Lake County, 84018 in Morgan County, 84006 in southwest Salt Lake County, and 84536 in San Juan County.

 

In this magical state on Tuesday, Gov. Gary Hubert signed a non-binding resolution (essentially some unenforceable words that he agreed with – not actual law) that declared pornography to be a “a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.”  Beyond being monstrously (and demonstrably) inaccurate according to “science” and “researchers,” this kind of attitude about what constitutes porn and what the real effects are are part of the reason that performers and sex workers are still so legally and culturally marginalized in this country.

It’s also the reason that many young people suffer needlessly, lacking sexual education and basic disease prevention supplies and tactics.  It’s sort of shocking that anyone in higher levels of government has time to worry about who’s jackin it to fuck clips, especially when you consider that Utah’s statewide youth STD rates skyrocketing beyond containment.

It’s probably not shocking, however, to imagine that this attitude is directly related to the exclusion of Mormon Boyz from Utah’s 2016 Pride festivities:

http://www.manhuntdaily.com/2016/04/utah-pride-says-nope-to-satrical-mormons/

 

That’s all the time we have this morning to worry about this kind of top-level hypocrisy so here’s enough gay porn gifs to freeze your browser:

 

4 thoughts on “Utah Governor: Porn “is a public health hazard.”

  1. This does not surprise me, the hypocrisy of certain organised religions towards sex is gag inducing

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