In a ‘newly unearthed’ interview, the Republican opined that porn is one reason why birth rates in the US are declining. Porn is not to blame – but blaming it is easy
on pornography, he suggested, because it’s stopping young people from getting married and having kids.
“I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,” Vance said.and spending too much time in the public eye may have rotted Vance’s brain. You don’t have to be a genius to realize that porn is not why birth rates are going down in America.
For the record, I am not pro-porn or anti-porn. Like lots of things in life, it’s a complicated issue. What I am firmly against, however, is people using porn as a simplistic scapegoat. And blaming porn for all the problems in the world seems to be becoming increasingly popular. In 2016 the Republican party made porn a priority of the GOP platform, stating it has “has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions”.