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Ask the DOJ to Enforce Obscenity Laws
Please tell the Department of Justice to enforce federal obscenity laws!
Federal obscenity laws prohibit distribution of hardcore, obscene pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel TV and in sexually oriented businesses and other retail shops. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld obscenity laws against First Amendment challenges, explaining that obscenity is not protected speech, similar to other forms of unprotected speech like blackmail, defamation, or child pornography.
Even so, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has not enforced existing federal obscenity laws for nearly a decade. Because obscenity laws have not been enforced, we have seen a dramatic rise in illegal pornography production and distribution in the last decade.
Hotels, and cable and TV companies, and of course Internet pornography distributors, regularly sell pornography with themes including teenagers, incest, rape, sexual slavery, and extreme violence.
It is time to uphold the rule of law, and stop illegal pornography distribution.
Enforcing obscenity laws would significantly stem the current public health crisis being caused by pornography. So far, several states have formally declared pornography a public health crisis, and more continue to move similar resolutions forward. Children across America are being unintentionally exposed to pornography at unprecedented rates. Research is showing that pornography is linked to neurological harms, increased violence against women, and increased cases of porn-induced erectile dysfunction. If obscenity law had been systematically enforced over the last 10 years, I believe we would not be facing the current degree of harm that we are now.
The role of the Federal Government should be, as it has been in the past, to prosecute the major producers and distributors of obscene pornography.
Please enforce this law
I am writing to express my thanks to Attorney General Sessions for agreeing to vigorously enforce federal laws prohibiting distribution of obscene pornography. Please move quickly to enforce this law!
Federal obscenity laws prohibit distribution of hardcore, obscene pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel TV and in sexually oriented businesses and other retail shops.
Enforcing obscenity laws would significantly stem the current public health crisis being caused by pornography. So far, several states have formally declared pornography a public health crisis, and more continue to move similar resolutions forward. Children across America are being unintentionally exposed to pornography at unprecedented rates. Research is showing that pornography is linked to neurological harms, increased violence against women, and increased cases of porn-induced erectile dysfunction. If obscenity law had been systematically enforced over the last 10 years, I believe we would not be facing the current degree of harm that we are now.
The role of the Federal Government should be, as it has been in the past, to prosecute the major producers and distributors of obscene pornography.
It's time to address obscenity
I am writing to express my thanks to Attorney General Sessions for agreeing to vigorously enforce federal laws prohibiting distribution of obscene pornography. Please move quickly to enforce this law!
Federal obscenity laws prohibit distribution of hardcore, obscene pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite or hotel/motel TV and in sexually oriented businesses and other retail shops.
Enforcing obscenity laws would significantly stem the current public health crisis being caused by pornography. So far, several states have formally declared pornography a public health crisis, and more continue to move similar resolutions forward. Children across America are being unintentionally exposed to pornography at unprecedented rates. Research is showing that pornography is linked to neurological harms, increased violence against women, and increased cases of porn-induced erectile dysfunction. If obscenity law had been systematically enforced over the last 10 years, I believe we would not be facing the current degree of harm that we are now.
The role of the Federal Government should be, as it has been in the past, to prosecute the major producers and distributors of obscene pornography.