State senators and representatives in South Dakota unanimously passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 , declaring that pornography is a public health crisis leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms. In all, 50 legislators voted for the bill, with the sponsor Senator Jenna Netherton saying that
South Dakota should join other states in trying to educate the public about the harms of porn and prevent children from watching it. The resolution, which is virtually identical to the one passed in Utah last March, was written by the
National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), and that pro-censorship group seems to be shopping similar bills to legislatures around the country -- including, most recently, Tennessee, where Senator Mae Beavers is doing the nasty. And notably
while pontificating about porn, the same South Dakota legislature is refusing to enact a ballot measure, passed by 60 percent of voters, instituting campaign finance, lobbying reforms, public financing for campaigns and creating the first independent
ethics commission in the state's history. | 
