No, it’s not porn, but I know how some people are.

I have seen more benign shit trying as a “public health crisis.” Things that have very little to do with public health. I did have a social worker, where I worked a few years ago, prepare an entire CE on the “porn addiction,” which I found a charming waste of a good hour. My guess he was dovetailing on the religious folks’ issue with pornography and the destruction of the family unit… yada, yada, yada. Porn distracts from your commitment to your relationship (more yadas). I am not here to discuss porn, but I want to show you the distracting nature of this type of thing. We put up a false flag to distract us from the real problem.

There are many of these. We are in the middle of an ultimate public health crisis with the ‘vid and associated pandemic. When you say “public health crisis,” that means the weight of the public health care system, along with those doing research on public health, and front-line providers should direct focus towards the solution of this problem. I can assure you it is not investigating whether “Horny young guy f*cks MILF” or Pornhub in general is or should be part of it. Yet every year, the state I live in pushes this as a health crisis, to the point that the Utah legislature feels the need to pass a bill every year to address some aspect of porn. Last year it was a warning that has to be on every porn site.

STATE OF UTAH WARNING

Exposing Minors to obscene material may damage or negatively impact minors. This website contains age-restricted materials. Using pornography may be harmful to minors.

If you are under the age of 18 years, you do not have authorization or permission to enter this website or access any of its materials. If you are over the age of 18 years, you hereby agree to comply with all the terms and conditions by entering the website. By clicking accept, you are stating that:

1. UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, you are over the age of 18 years.
2. Nudity and explicit depictions of sexual activity do not offend you.
3. You do not wish us to show you this warning and age gate in the future and consent to our use of cookies to present our website and its contents to you.
4. You acknowledge that you are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the website through your internet connection are over 18 years.

So help me on my temple recommend card and my magic undies that I am not looking at this for real; I just wandered on the site by accident.

This year was just as precious from the Verge (because it was the only story that wasn’t behind a paywall.

Utah’s HB 72 mandates active adult content filters on all smartphones and tablets sold in Utah. Phone makers would provide a passcode to let buyers disable the filter, although it’s not clear if they’d need to verify the buyer’s age beforehand. Suppose a filter isn’t automatically enabled when a user activates the device. In that case, its manufacturer can be held legally liable if a minor accesses harmful content, with a maximum fine of $10 per individual violation. (“Harmful” content can include “any description or representation” of nudity or sexual conduct that doesn’t have artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.)

The funny part is that Utah is consistently in the top five states that consume porn, with Utah county (Where Provo, BYU, and the Osmonds live) beating even Salt Lake County in porn consumption. Guess there is a lot of magic underwear around people’s ankles. I know many folks watch porn; it’s just the overly righteous folks of the LDS church that seem to take extreme issues about porn and sex in general. Oh, they have sex, but they want to use it to create an obscene number of children. No wasting the seed there.

Porn isn’t the problem; it never is. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, we didn’t have the internet, so we had to steal the mags from a parent, get it from a friend who did the same, or do like I did and find a porno mag that one threw out along a city street I used to run on daily in high school. If someone wants to consume porn, they will, of course, consume it. There is nothing that anyone trying to enforce their morals on you can do about it. We talked about moralistic opinions in healthcare yesterday, and I will state again that your morals should never skew the delivery of care. This should be the same in the rest of the world.

Anyway, enough porn, I need a cigarette and to take a nap.

I have a couple of topics that need to be addressed more immediately. Don’t worry; I’ll wait while you finish trying to google Horny young guy f*cks MILF, so I have your undivided pants up attention.

A real crisis is an increase in widespread violence and gun violence in this country. Oh shit, he’s talking about guns Martha, get my tiki torch and pitchfork, oh and my AR-15. Ok, Chad, hold your damn horses. First off, I live in a castle with large caldrons of boiling oil to repel the local gentry, and two, take a moment and engage in some sensible discussion before you dig your heels in (hopefully at least 6 inch stilettos…so kinky).

I have a serious semi rhetorical question. Why do we quickly turn to violence? It seems that if you don’t like something someone says or does, you immediately attack them—many times with physical or intended physical force.

I will give you an example that I am not proud of by any means. I was in my car waiting to turn when a person in a car honked at me. I, of course, was in no position to move, so I gave him the Hawaiian good luck sign (the finger). I continue, and he aggressively pulls behind me to block me in and proceeds to berate me and threaten to beat me up. What the fucking hell. Dude, ease up on the meth and the steroids and take your munchkin size penis somewhere else. I told him as much and reached for my spray and my cell phone. His lady friend finally railed him in, and they left.

A couple of things. Yeah, I shouldn’t have given him the finger. Why the violent response? I get the finger a lot. I just smile and give it back; I mean, it is the Hawaiian good luck sign; I just wish them luck. I am as guilty as he is, but everyone seems to escalate a situation. We have multiple police violence cases in the middle of an officer on trial that murdered a person in custody. Whatever happened to the de-escalation? We should strive to ramp things down instead of up. You don’t have to win every argument, and if you are wrong, stop doubling the fuck down. Learn to admit you are wrong. Yeah, it’s a struggle, even for a put-together person like me, haha.

Violence is a health issue. Injury and death by any means are health issues. It’s more of a health issue than if Junior has his magic undies around his ankles watching Horny young guy f*cks MILF. The only part that needs attention there is… Ok, besides that part, a healthy conversation about the presentation of porn, the use of safer sex practices, the potential problems with unsafe sex, and that rubbing one out is completely safe and normal (and there are places that maybe you shouldn’t do it). Also, a quick chat that porn is not realistic and that you could never last a solid 35 minutes.

Anyhow be the kind of person your dog and your mom hope you are.