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The Right should pursue politically feasible policies that will help create a better environment for family formation. Producing more marriageable men and women includes cultivating the former’s virtue and confidence and encouraging the latter to make marriage and motherhood a higher priority.

These policies should appeal to reliable Republican voters without worrying whether they offend reliable Democratic voters. They should also help advance the broader MAGA agenda, defined by defending those putting down roots in America, encouraging republican virtues and self-government, and raising children to responsible adulthood.

In short, this agenda should form self-governing men and women who can become the backbone of an electoral coalition capable of ruling.

An important yet neglected prerequisite for such a culture is enforcing laws against obscenity, which harms both children and adults. The problems with children viewing pornography are well documented. Adult use of pornography severely compromises marriages, leading to divorce and break-ups; makes people more callous, less loving, and less energetic; plays a role in preventing relationships from forming; and is associated with psychological problems like depression.

Throughout American history, the states have enforced laws against the spread of general obscenity. When new technologies like the printing press, the telegraph, radio, and television arrived, the federal government moved to prevent the knowing distribution of obscene material. Congress sought to assist in regulating obscenity at the dawn of the internet era, but the courts neutered Congress’s efforts and have even undermined broad state efforts to regulate obscenity.

Americans generally recognize hardcore pornography as a problem. Its commercial distribution remains illegal. When charges against pornographers reach juries, they convict, or pornographers plead out. Yet charges are rarely brought. And legislatures and governors have prevented Americans from stopping internet pornography from proliferating. As recently as 2025, the Supreme Court seemed skeptical about state efforts to require age verification for access to obscene websites, a very minimal regulation. As a result, America’s family ecology and the capacity for self-government have waned. Rebuilding these pillars should be the central aim of a coalition on the Right seeking to revive healthy families in America.

The Landscape

Public opinion on pornography regulation is ambiguous. Americans increasingly tolerate adult consumption while expressing persistent concerns about its societal and personal costs, particularly children’s access to pornography.

On one hand, polling shows that the public does not support broad bans against obscenity, especially when the issue is framed as an abstract question of government regulation versus individual freedom.

The 2022 General Social Survey found that a significant plurality, and even a majority in some cases, favor prohibiting only the distribution of pornography to minors. Just 28% support a total ban for all ages. Fewer Americans support a complete ban on obscenity than in 1973.

A 2024 YouGov poll found Americans evenly split (42% support versus 42% oppose) on outlawing general pornography. The number of Americans seeing nothing morally objectionable about pornography has risen from 30% in 2011 to a peak of 43% in 2018, before settling around 35%. Only 45% of people under 30 think viewing pornography is morally wrong, while a majority of those over 50 do, according to a 2025 Pew poll.

On the other hand, many Americans are worried about the implications of pornography. Majorities worry about pornography’s effects on families, youth, and individual self-control. Americans overwhelmingly favor targeted regulations: the American Principles Project found that 83% support age verification for obscene websites. Protections for kids are more popular than in 1973. Pornography’s ubiquity also affects both sexes. More than 10% of men and 3% of women self-report addiction, with many seeking help for compulsive use that undermines marriage and virtue.

This divided landscape in public opinion—tolerance for adults alongside demand for guardrails among children—reflects America’s dual-track approach to pornography laws.

The broad picture, however, obscures political realities. On every measure, Republicans support more regulation based on moral concerns about pornography and its effects than Democrats. They worry that obscenity undermines marriage and virtue and generally support age verification laws. Obscenity regulation also has more salience among Republicans. At least 60% favor enforcing laws against general obscenity, while majorities of Democrats do not.

Although age verification laws enjoy overwhelming bipartisan support in public opinion polling, Democratic-controlled states do not pass such laws. No state with a Democratic governor and legislature has passed an age verification law. Only Virginia, a newly minted Democratic trifecta state, has an age verification law. But that was passed under a Republican administration.

Twenty-three states and D.C. have no age verification laws—only four of which (Alaska, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Vermont) have Republicans in control of at least one branch. Every Democratic appointee to the Supreme Court opposed state measures for age verification in FCC v. Paxton (2025) and in the Ashcroft decisions in the early 2000s. Democratic states do, however, have seemingly active task forces investigating childhood pornography and child sex trafficking.

Nearly two-thirds of Republicans think viewing pornography is morally wrong, while only 39% of Democrats do. Since at least 2019, partisan differences have emerged among women on porn regulation. Majorities of conservative women support porn bans, while fewer than one in four liberal women do. Protestant—especially white evangelicals—and Catholic Republican voters overwhelmingly believe viewing pornography is wrong. Single women (on average) are increasingly progressive on moral issues worldwide, presumably also including attitudes toward porn regulation.

This ambiguity can be seen in our daily lives too. We keep general obscenity laws on the books, though we typically do not enforce them. While people are more open about watching porn than in the past, they are not as open as they could be. Nude billboards are rare in America, no one running for office brags about consuming pornography, and state funding for porn education causes scandal.

Toward a New Politics of Obscenity Regulation

Law serves an important purpose in times of ambiguity. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, laws uphold “morality by preventing opinions from becoming corrupt” and “sometimes even by determining them when they are still uncertain.”

Republicans have sought a more politically popular way of opposing obscenity, dropping moralistic, religious-coded language in favor of making appeals to science and emphasizing protecting children. Anti-pornography advocates, meanwhile, have largely dropped broader aspirations to ban general obscenity in favor of popular causes like stopping sex trafficking (especially among children) and age verification.

But this strategy ultimately accepts the dual-track approach—anything goes for adults, guardrails for children—that operates within the safe confines of today’s public opinion. Though Aaron Renn has argued that this approach is a seemingly prudent adaptation to a world more hostile to the concerns of Christian faith, it is a recipe for long-term corruption that will eventually end in a single permissive track.

Protecting children from obscenity requires ensuring that our adult culture is not flooded with it. Any country saturated with hardcore pornography will be much less willing to enforce laws protecting children and other innocents. As political scientist Harry M. Clor wrote in 1969, it is not clear “that laws confined to the protection of children could adequately protect them in the absence of any restrictions upon the adult world.” As studies show and common sense indicates, rape and the exploitation of children do not trouble adults who consume hardcore pornography on the internet as much as those who do not.

To move beyond the unsustainable dual-track approach, building public support is crucial. In the short term, states and the federal government should continue to use their powers to protect children. In the long term, they should seek to regulate general obscenity, not necessarily through new laws, since obscenity is illegal in every state, but by enforcing existing law.

AI, the Internet, and Kids. Since protecting children remains the area of greatest public consensus, it should serve as the political point of departure for launching a broader campaign. Congress should continue attempts to protect children from pornography online and through artificial intelligence, as described in a recent Heritage Foundation report, “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years.”

Section 230 Originalism. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 has been read to give blanket immunity to all platforms that host unlawful material, including libelous writings, obscene material, false advertising, and dangerous solicitations. In no way does Section 230 demand such an interpretation.

Instead, as attorneys general across the country have argued, Section 230 has effectively preempted state attempts to exercise police powers while extending legal immunity to platforms that actively promote illegal content through algorithms and other methods of targeted promotion. Returning to an originalist reading of Section 230 is crucial to prosecuting pornography platforms, which lure customers in by promoting ever more depraved content.

Pornography Prosecution Task Force. Special task forces should be created at the state and federal levels to prosecute hardcore pornography. The last national effort to do this happened during the George W. Bush Administration. It was a retail success but a wholesale failure. That task force won every case it took, convicting dozens of producers under federal obscenity statutes. But it prosecuted so few cases that it did not lead to a permanent task force for prosecuting general obscenity, and it did not build support among U.S. attorneys for carrying out this mission.

A restructured Obscenity Prosecution Task Force would centralize prosecutions and investigations. Meanwhile, states could use the child pornography and sex trafficking task forces (generally centralized at the state level) as models to take on general obscenity, which is often left to county prosecutors.

Fighting pornography serves the Right’s policy goals and appeals to its voters. It would contribute to improving the marriageability of men and would help to revive the compromised sexual dance. Serious, measured enforcement against the worst offenders might gain converts to the cause.

The Right should continue building public support for protecting children and prosecuting hardcore pornography on the internet while laying the foundation for a broader revival of enforcing obscenity regulation. Making life less comfortable for pornographers while improving it for family-oriented citizens is the kind of politics a new American golden age demands.

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