Florida’s House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday declaring pornography a public health risk. The resolution called for education, research, and policy changes to protect Florida citizens — especially teenagers — from pornography, according to the Associated Press. The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Ross Spano, said that research has “found a correlation between pornography use and mental and physical illnesses, difficulty forming and maintaining intimate relationships, unhealthy brain development and cognitive function, and deviant, problematic or dangerous sexual behavior,” at a hearing last month before the House’s Health & Human Services Committee. The vote followed an earlier session in which Florida legislators declined to hold hearings on a bill banning high-capacity magazines and assault rifles such as the one used last week by suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz to kill 17 students and teachers at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Rep.
Florida’s House Of Representatives Just Declared Pornography A Health Risk
Eli Meixler, Time: Politics
Tue, 02/20/2018 - 11:50pm
Topics: representatives press republican rep ross spano house s health human services committee nikolas cruz marjory stoneman douglas high school parkland rep carlos guillermo smith democrat spano new york times he ap i m florida house he smith pornography health risk epidemic resolution violence research bill gun
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