On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. According to CBS News, the new law “makes it a federal crime to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of people without their consent.” The law’s text uses the term “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.” At the core of the … Read more
On December 12, 2024, The New York Times published a piece titled “It’s Time to Talk About Pornography, Scholars Say.” It cited a sobering 2023 survey showing that almost three-quarters of American adolescents under seventeen have viewed pornographic materials. Much of the piece talked about the harmful, misleading and unrealistic nature of indecent literature, photographs … Read more
Amid the battle against abortion and the LGBTQ agenda, the issue of pornography—particularly that accessible to children—is perhaps less prominently discussed. However, the liberal movement has not forgotten this element of the all-pervasive attack on marriage and the family. Ensuring ready access to pornography remains a clear objective in the wide range of weapons designed … Read more
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is preparing to introduce a new “anti-sexting” tool with their next iPhone update. Apple will warn teen and pre-teen users that they could open a sexually explicit image. The temporary block will provide a pause for those who might happen upon such images accidentally and gives them an … Read more
“Public health” brings to mind preventing the flu or better dental hygiene. It often incorporates current events like the water crisis in Flint, Michigan or the ongoing controversy over “vaping.” That is not what you will find in the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). The articles in this issue provide … Read more
At first glance, it seems to be a very positive initiative on the part of those at the University of Notre Dame. Over one thousand male students, faculty and staff have signed a petition asking that “the University implement a filter to make pornography inaccessible on the Notre Dame Wi-Fi networks.” Finally, some sanity seems to … Read more
