Health committee  I think it's very important to look at programs and at programmatic research to see if the programs work. I'm glad to hear the recommendation of this paper, because it does look at both the programs and what actually makes a difference—not just what's predicted to make a differen

Health committee  We're also very concerned about the forming of attitudes in children, because their brains are still very malleable, their attitudes are very malleable, and the potency of an image is quite impactful on children. It is also impactful on adults. I don't mean to say that because we

Health committee  In the States we are pursuing what we call the “public health crisis”, and a number of the states have already voted to declare the use of pornography as a public health crisis. The Centers for Disease Control is considering it as well. We're looking at it broadly, so that ther

Health committee  The answer is sort of complex. Some of the research does sort out imagery that they consider violent and non-violent. In fact, though, some studies find that even the non-violent pornography increases the acceptance of behaviours like rape. We thought that only the violent pornog

Health committee  It's male on female violence in the imagery. Also, some of the imagery is rape imagery, and this used to be more popular in the Internet pornography, where the images were ones that made people think they were watching a rape. It was simulated rape, where the female was saying “n

Health committee  I am not familiar with Canadian law, but I will say that research on the content of pornography indicates that close to 90% of the images that are currently available include physical and behavioural aggression, and the vast majority of it is male directed at female. So the overw

Health committee  We have an American law in which both the production and the distribution of obscenity are a federal offence. We are encouraging the American authorities to enforce that law. We have a new Attorney General of the United States, who says that he will vigorously enforce the obscen

Health committee  Thank you so much for inviting me to speak. I appreciate your interest in this topic. I'm going to present my case that society has become “pornofied”. By that I mean that sex has become a product, that the body is now seen as a commodity. If it's a product, you can sell it; if

Health committee  Thank you.