Conservative College Men Campaign for Porn Censorship
LatestConservative college men at a handful of campuses across the country are calling for a ban on pornography. The campaign, launched by students at Notre Dame in October, has since spread to Harvard University, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, reports Inside Higher Ed.
Their goal, Nortre Dame senior Jim Martinson explained to the Daily Beast, is to ban porn from campus WiFi by installing filters similar to once recently implemented by Starbucks, McDonalds and Panera. It’s also fairly pointless, though, given that students can easily stream porn from their phones by using data or access porn via a private WiFi network. Martinson is the lead writer of a letter imploring the university to implement the ban. He told the Daily Beast in December that he’s since heard from at least 40 students who want to campaign for an anti-porn filter at their own campuses.
While conservatives have been leading anti-porn movements for decades, Inside Higher Ed notes that unlike past anti-porn crusaders, who have claimed porn is immoral, college men are adopting the language of feminists, focusing on abuse against women. “Pornography is the new sex education, providing a disturbing script about what men find sexually appealing and what women should do to please them. Notre Dame’s sincere efforts to educate students about consent and other aspects of healthy sexuality are pitifully weak in light of the fact that by the time students arrive on campus, many have been addictively watching pornography for years,” Martinson wrote in his letter. “Porn is not acting. The overwhelming majority of contemporary pornography is literally filmed violence against women — violence somehow rendered invisible by the context.”