The Conundrum of How Pornography Impacts Public Health

ABSTRACT

001.0001 Online ISBN 9780190075507 Print ISBN 9780190075477 Ptomography and Public Health is a scholarly work by Emily Rothman, ScD, professor of community health sciences, Boston University School of Public Health that explores the relationship between pornography and a range of public health issues including interpersonal violence and aggression, healthy sexuality, and body image, among other topics. While these proclamations do not have much direct impact, in a post-COVID-19 and post-Roe v. Wade world, the role of state and federal government in limiting or expanding public health powers should put the public health community on high alert. Several US Supreme Court decisions in this area between 1957 and 2002 allowed for widespread dissemination of sexual material in part because various legal "tests" to define obscenity were so subjective.