September 17, 2008, 9:53 am by Brett

Susan Brownmiller seems to advocate a don’t ask, don’t tell policy by the way she composed her last paragraph of, “Let’s Put Pornography Back in the Closet.” She wants to clarify the, “distinction between permission to publish and permission to display publicly.”  There is a clear understanding that the author is against pornography, but she doesn’t seem to mind it being around as long as she doesn’t find out about it. Kind of like a parent in denial. As long as the kid goes to school, and gets decent grades, he is a good young boy, avoiding pornographic happenings, like orgies, for example.

Whether or not these sons and daughters participate in said debauchery is irrelevant to the problem of pornography. There will never be enough laws or enforcement to stop people from doing what they are going to do. It didn’t work with alcohol, it doesn’t work with guns, it won’t work with porn. What we might have the ability to enforce is the access to it.

The Internet is accessible, used by millions of children. The difficulty to find pornographic material is low. Restricting the availability of bandwidth to certain pornographic sites would fair pretty well, if you ask me. Let the porn distributors publish on the Internet (let them think what they want about their “rights”), but nobody is going to have any interest in the stuff if the Internet speed is slower than a dial-up modem in a tub of molasses. Nobody needs to know we did it. It will just be, “unofficial policy.”