On Nov. 18, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation quietly convened a hearing in order to decide whether to establish Congressional financing for the study of "porn addiction."

Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), chairman of the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee, and a right-wing Christian, arranged for the hearing.

Four "experts," all with ties to conservative organizations, presented testimony. No one from the adult entertainment industry was invited to contribute.

The hearing represents an interesting tactic by the religious right in their ongoing war on adult entertainment. The First Amendment Free Speech provisions of the U.S. Constitution have frustrated efforts to supress porn in the United States. By presenting pseudo-scientific theories that pornography has a drug-like effect on viewers, anti-porn activists hope to pull an end-run around the Constitution.

Dr. Judith Reisman, Ph.D, testified, "Thanks to the latest advances in neuroscience, we now know that pornographic visual images imprint and alter the brain, triggering an instant, involuntary, but lasting, biochemical memory trail, arguably, subverting the First Amendment by overriding the cognitive speech process." [emphasis added]

# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 12/08/2004 05:47:00 PM

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