SCOTUS Takes on Big Porn

Twenty-one years ago, five black-robed justices ruled that adults’ rights to effortlessly view hardcore pornography trumped children’s rights to a childhood. A boy born that summer is today buying his very first drink, handing over his ID to a bartender for inspection. And yet odds are he has already been watching porn for half of his life, just by tapping a button, “Yes, I’m over 18.” The average age of first porn exposure is ten or eleven, and once hooked, too few children can resist the compulsion to keep coming back for more violent and degrading content.