Morality in Media, a conservative Religious Right pro-censorship group, is upset that the mainstream media doesn’t share its’ extremist views toward legally sanctioned adult material.
In a press release, Morality in Media says the phrase “consenting adults” has shown up in a number of places in the mainstream media recently. The wording suggests that there’s no problem as long as the obscenity is exhibited or sold only to “consenting adults,” Morality in Media says.
Calling the adult business an “industry” has also become commonplace, Morality in Media complained. “‘Industry,’ like ‘consenting adults,’ serves the purposes of the producers of adult videos, who need to keep the public at least neutral,” the Morality in Media press release stated.
“News stories that dignify the porn industry by calling it an ‘industry’ suggest a measure of acceptance by the news media that most of the public does not share,” the press release continued.
Morality in Media claimed that polls it has conducted twice in the past three years show that more than 80 percent of Americans believe the federal laws against Internet obscenity should be vigorously enforced. Other, less biased polls put that figure much lower.
“Google will give you 840,000 hits for ‘adult porn industry’ in an amazing two tenths of a second, but only 18,000 hits for ‘adult porn racket’ (in six one-hundredths of a second),” Morality in Media said.
