{"id":10222,"date":"2022-02-09T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:40:29","slug":"why-we-must-ban-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/why-we-must-ban-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we must ban porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>A new law requiring porn sites to verify the age of their users is being discussed in Parliament this month. With respect, I believe this potential law doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough.<br \/>\nIt is time to do what should have been done years ago \u2013 ban it and wipe the entire pornography industry off the internet, preferably with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Some may argue that I am being overdramatic, perhaps even prudish? Nonetheless, I stand by my assertion that porn destroys people\u2019s lives. This is a fact backed up by numerous studies.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are profiting from this multi-billion-pound industry may argue that it is only a bit of harmless fun. Except it really isn\u2019t!<br \/>\n HARMFUL: pornography websites are highly damaging, argues Chris Kerr.<br \/>\nScience tells us that regular use of porn is rewiring people\u2019s brains and the effects can be devastating. It is shifting people\u2019s sexual interests from normal, marital relations to more complex, sometimes deviant fantasies. At best, this is causing problems i...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law requiring porn sites to verify the age of their users is being discussed in Parliament this month. With respect, I believe this potential law doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough. It is time to do what should have been done years ago \u2013 ban it and wipe the entire pornography industry off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":10228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1029,1540,1546,1798],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","category-legal","category-slideshow","category-homepage","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/02\/BanPorn004.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10231,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}