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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (§§ 11-1-1 — 11-77-7)
Chapter 77 - CIVIL LIABILITY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS ON THE INTERNET ABSENT AGE VERIFICATION (§§ 11-77-1 — 11-77-7)
Section 11-77-1 - Legislative findings
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MS Code § 11-77-1 (2023)
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The Legislature finds that pornography contributes to:
- (a) The hyper sexualization of teens and prepubescent children and may lead to low self-esteem, body image disorders;
- (b) An increase in problematic sexual activity at younger ages, and increased desire among adolescents to engage in risky sexual behavior;
- (c) Difficulty in forming or maintaining positive, intimate relationships, as well as promoting problematic or harmful sexual behaviors and addiction; and
- (d) A negative impact brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and medical illnesses, shape deviant sexual arousal.
Added by Laws, 2023, ch. 513, SB 2346,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2023.
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