Porn is just one part of a larger (im)moral crusade in the US. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, recently shared a video in which she declared that the “ Christian nationalism” will be “the movement that stops the school shootings”.
Adding to the war on porn, is the fact that Christian nationalism is on the rise in the GOP. The West Virginia governor, Jim Justice, also blamed porn (among other things) for school shootings during a briefing on Wednesday.Įxpect to see a lot more porntificating from the right the Republicans have become a party of moral panics. And, after Vance’s 2021 comments started making headlines this week, other Republicans have chimed in with support for his position. Last year, Republican senator Josh Hawley lamented that feminism has driven men to “ pornography and video games”. In 2016 the Republican party made porn a priority of the GOP platform, stating it has “has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions”. And blaming porn for all the problems in the world seems to be becoming increasingly popular. What I am firmly against, however, is people using porn as a simplistic scapegoat. Like lots of things in life, it’s a complicated issue. Blaming porn, on the other hand, is easy.įor the record, I am not pro-porn or anti-porn. The problem, however, is that fixing all of these policy issues is difficult. You need to fix all these issues if you want people to voluntarily have more children. Porn is not to blame for the US being the only industrialized country in the world not to guarantee paid family leave. Porn is not to blame for the fact that giving birth costs tens of thousands of dollars in America. Porn is not to blame for the fact that a lot of Americans simply can’t afford to have children anymore. You don’t have to be a genius (or even remotely pro-porn) to realize that porn is not why birth rates are going down in America. I think the combination of being endorsed by Donald Trump and spending too much time in the public eye may have rotted Vance’s brain.
“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,” Vance said. There should be an outright ban on pornography, he suggested, because it’s stopping young people from getting married and having kids. In a “ newly unearthed” 2021 interview with Crisis magazine (an outlet which describes itself as A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity), Vance opined that porn is one reason why birth rates in the US are declining. Yes, the man who made a name for himself with a book often described as “poverty porn” now has his sights set on eliminating actual porn. While Vance is firmly against banning guns, he’s very keen on banning porn. Bans don’t work.Įxcept in some cases, of course. Enacting new laws won’t do anything to improve the gun violence problem in the US, he tweeted. On Thursday the Republican Senate candidate and bestselling author of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy tweeted a long explanation as to why Joe Biden’s ideas about gun control are misguided. Like all Republicans, JD Vance thinks that banning guns is a very bad idea.