MSNBC - Addiction to porn destroying lives, Senate told

...compare effect on brain to that of heroin or crack ... as in

Mary Anne Layden, co-director of a sexual trauma program at the University of Pennsylvania, said pornography’s effect on the brain mirrors addiction to heroin or crack cocaine. She told of one patient, a business executive, who arrived at his office at 9 a.m. each day, logged onto Internet porn sites, and didn’t log off until 5 p.m.

& that's like heroin or crack how? how many crackheads even make it into the office? they're morons. & wouldn't this fall under some sort of sexual harrassment policy in the workplace?

but wait, they've discovered hentai...

Frederick Lane III, a lawyer and author of “Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age,” said it is inevitable that hentai will create controversy in Western societies, given that "the Japanese culture is much more accepting of violence in sexual setting." It also is certain to push political hot buttons "because of the greater tendency for kids to get hold of it," he said.

But creators and distributors of such material cannot be prosecuted under child pornography statutes because the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the Child Pornography Protection Act, a 1996 law banning “virtual’ child porn.

“The court said the reason that a computer-generated or animated image is not prosecutable under the Constitution is that there is no harm to an individual,” said Lane, who also writes an adult industry legal blog.

Obscenity charges could be brought against the operators of toon porn sites, Lane noted, though he rates that possibility as unlikely.

via metafilter