WASHINGTON, DC – Kansas Senator Sam Brownback doesn’t like pornography. As the ultra conservative senator sees it, sexual material has what the American Family Association calls “devastating effects … on the nation.” In order to make that opinion known to the parents of America, Brownback will chair a Senate subcommittee meeting on Thursday, November 10, as the third in a continuing series of meetings designed to put the heat on the pornography industry.Of primary importance to Brownback’s meeting agenda is discussing and developing the reach and approach of the Justice Department as regards to enforcement of obscenity laws within the pornography industry. Among Brownback’s witnesses is Pamela Paul, the author of “Pornified,” who believes that the ready availability of explicit material is desensitizing the nation’s adults while negatively influencing the growth and development of its children.
According to Paul, “It’s changing what they think of as normal, appropriate, natural human sexual behavior.”
Patrick Trueman, the former head of the Justice Department’s Obscenity Enforcement Group believes that “Because of the pressure of Sam Brownback and the support of the American public, and the goodwill of the Attorney General, we are going to see the Justice Department have a strong effect against obscenity very soon.”
