A resurfaced interview with Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance reveals he is in favour of banning porn in its entirety.
Vance won the race to become the Republican candidate last month after receiving an endorsement from former president Donald Trump, and is now going up against Democratic nominee Tim Ryan to take over from retiring Republican Rob Portman.
The candidate entered the race in July 2021; one month before he gave the interview discussing his thoughts on porn and birth control and whether they had an effect on Americans getting married and having children.
Speaking with Crisis Magazine, Vance expressed belief that watching porn has led to people becoming 'isolated' from one another, in turn making it difficult for people to form relationships.
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The candidate 'admitted he wants to outright ban porn', according to the Catholic magazine, and said: "I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a really lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other.”
Vance's comments came following the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference, where attendees were encouraged to get married and start families, according to Crisis Magazine.
The candidate was a keynote speaker at the event, and throughout his run for Senate has made conserving 'traditional families' a main pillar of his campaign.
Though Vance's comments about porn came after his candidacy began, it's unclear whether such a ban would be a priority for him should he be successful in his campaign. UNILAD has reached out to Vance for further comment.
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The candidate has, however, made clear his thoughts on abortion, and is in favour of banning the practise with few exceptions.
Speaking to Spectrum News in September, Vance argued against the need for abortion exceptions for rape and incest.
"It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society," Vance said.
He continued: "The question to me is really about the baby. We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life."
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Vance is known by many as the best-selling author of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which went on to become a film.
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