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Posted under Pornography on Monday, November 16th, 2009
There were three anti-porn conferences held over the weekend in Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Rexburg, Idaho.
"We had about 80 persons in Pocatello, about double that in Idaho Falls, triple that here in the Rexburg location. People are understanding (that) this is needing to be discussed in an appropriate way," said Craig Kobia, an event organizer.
State Sen. Brent Hill read some alarming statistics: There are 420 million Web pages of porn, and most people first see pornography at age 11. Senator Hill also spoke about his visit to jail, where he asked inmates about what youth need to do to stay out of prison.
"Number 1, stay away from drugs. Number 2, stay away from alcohol. And number 3, stay away from pornography," said Hill.
KIDK’s Steven Pope asked Dr. Donald Hilton, keynote speaker and brain surgeon, about his feelings on pornography.
"It’s a true addiction. In the past we tended to look at porn as a personal behavioral issue. Science now is equalizing what we call natural addictions to gambling, overeating leading to obesity, and sexual addictions as pornography. Really science is now equating that to drug addictions in terms of changes we’re seeing in the brain," said Dr. Hilton.
"I think what that means for us in terms of treatment, is that we must accord pornography addiction the same respect and treatment that we’d would any true drug addiction," said Dr. Hilton.
