Pornography is a plague on society, and addiction rates have become a real problem in the last decade. However, despite the porn industry's best efforts to be readily available and easy to access, its own issues have begun surfacing.
This caused a severe backlash from various areas in America, particularly red states, which began demanding that these websites force users to age-verify before they can access the site. This caused many sites to restrict access to states like Texas under the guise of "protecting the privacy of its users" but this is more likely a way to avoid lawsuits and implementing restrictive elements on their site that would crash their traffic.
Many of these websites plastered letters to the user upon attempting to access, telling voyeurs to contact their local politicians and tell them to respect their privacy. The hope is that this would anger people against Republicans, who would then vote for Democrats in order to get the porn back.
Democrats were only too happy to accommodate, with some voices on the left suggesting the Democrat Party become the "porn party" in order to attract men back into the fold.
But once again, Gen Z is surprising us by being the generation who largely wants more restrictions on porn, not fewer.
According to The American Survey Center reported that both men and women in their late teens and early twenties, largely want to see porn further restricted across the country:
Young men have become much more amenable to reducing access to it. In 2013, young men were divided—about half (51 percent) favored making it more difficult to access pornography online, while just about as many (40 percent) opposed this policy. Today, six in 10 young men say they believe we should make accessing pornography online more difficult.
Men’s views on pornography vary markedly by age, with the youngest and oldest expressing the strongest support for increased restrictions. Close to two-thirds (64 percent) of men under age 25 say they favor making it more difficult to access online pornography. An even greater portion of men age 65 or older express support for increasing restrictions on internet pornography. In contrast, just under half of men between age 25 and 54 support making online pornography more difficult to access.
A lot of this is thanks to Gen Z becoming more Christian and conservative, and a lot of that is thanks to a culture that has proven it's shallow, divisive, hateful, and ready and willing to use and abuse whoever it needs to. This has caused a surge of Gen Z Christianity, mainly led by men, who find respect in God for their masculinity and manhood that modern society refuses to give them.
Read: Gen Z Is Getting Good With God
I can't help but wonder if this is a cultural correction brought on by a societal pendulum swing. The left and its preferred culture pushed too hard and too fast, and the people are now responding, not just with rejection, but laying the groundwork for Christianity to influence the culture radically in order to make this course correction more lasting.
This would be absolutely great news, and to Gen Z's credit, it's being led by a generation that actually knows what it's like to live in a world with the internet from start to finish, never having experienced a world without it. This gives them an insight that other generations, including elder millennials, may not have. They've seen the effect of the internet on them from a very young age and are waking up to the issues it presents.
Or so it seems for now.
All I can say is that this turn is unexpected but welcome, and I hope it continues to grow into an entire movement that finally puts pornography into a far less influential position in our society. For a very, very long time, it seemed to have a kung-fu grip on the internet. Now, its gambles to push men into action on its behalf are failing.
