My starting point is clearly not that all pornography is toxic to the brain. I don't believe that's true. And if we look at the foot traffic in a cyber sense, kids are accessing this information for, as Kathleen has already said, a variety of purposes including education, information, and yes, maybe according to the definition of pornography, for sexual excitement. So, yes, that's all part of the package. But is there another way of developing sexual health information in a way that captures that depth and breadth of human sexuality in such a way that the starting point is not “if you do this, it will lead to divorce, violence”, etc.? I think the cause and effect piece can continue to be hotly debated, and I'm the type of person who likes to find solutions to well-known problems. So in other words, let's close the loop and find concrete ways to deal with this. From my perspective, it's about giving people information to make informed choices. And if we're not doing that, at the end of the day, we're going to continue to have this debate about whether something is too graphic, not graphic enough, a teachable moment, or creating higher rates of divorce.
I think there is some informed position in the middle that I believe we can come to. We're Canadians, after all; we're a sensible group. We can come to that kind of consensus on the type of information and how best to package it.
But the variability in how that information is currently getting out there is, from my perspective, the problem.