In February of last year, Ross Douthat penned a column about banning porn. It was a kind of feminist argument.
“If you want better men by any standard, there is every reason to regard ubiquitous pornography as an obstacle — and to suspect that between virtual reality and creepy forms of customization, its influence is only likely to get worse.”
Those who wave hands about censorship and free speech, but who simultaneous treat porn as a “product” are disingenuous. Porn is a product — a very vicious product which destroys human dignity and love — it is “something made and distributed and sold,” and therefore, Douthat argues “subject to regulation and restriction if we so desire.”
