Citizens Against Pornography plans to distribute “Pornography: The Great Lie” to families, schools and churches over the coming months. While the first cut of the $125,000 production is geared toward Mormon families, producers are already working on a nondenominational version for wider release.
“I’ve personally seen the impacts of pornography on friends and family,” said Fraser Bullock, who works with Content Watch, a company that makes Internet filtering software and also helped produce the new video. “When you see the impact, and the rapid escalation, you have to fight back.”
The producers of “Pornography: The Great Lie” are fighting back with the same questionable talking points anti-adult crusaders used in this year’s closed-door congressional hearings on pornography, drawing a connection between porn and drugs, porn and prostitution, porn and rape and even porn and insanity.
The video, set against haunting music, claims viewing adult films or visiting adult websites is highly addictive and causes permanent brain damage. In tearful testimonial, former “addicts” share the harrowing tales of their decent into supposed porn dependency.
At a roundtable discussion designed to generate publicity for the video, entrepreneur John Harmer, one of the operatives behind the production, said the group will next focus on raising $3 million to fund a research project that he hopes will yield “scientific evidence that can be presented in any court of law” to prove pornography scrambles the brain.
Citizens Against Pornography is the same group that helped state Rep. John Dougall get an anti-adult law passed earlier this year. Among other things, the bill forces ISPs to filter adult sites and imposes a special tax on adult business, portions of which will be used to fund anti-porn public service announcements.