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You might see a lot of that personally, but the Utah legislature has a dearth of "health bro influencer" types, especially in its Senate.

The chief sponsor of the bill went to BYU.[1] The co-sponsor of the bill went to BYU [2]

[1] https://senate.utah.gov/sen/WEILET/

[2] https://house.utleg.gov/rep/PULSIS/

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Roughly 1/3rd of the House and Senate of Utah are BYU grads [1], and BYU is not the only religious Mormon university in Utah, just the largest.

Utah was literally founded as a state to be a place for Mormons[2], because they were a persecuted religious minority in other states. I grew up in Missouri, and part of Missouri state history is that of the 1838 Mormon War[3]. At one point the Governor of Missouri signed an order that paid out for the scalps of Mormons[4]. The aftermath was a mass migration of Mormons from Missouri to what became Utah, literally founded as a place for Mormons, to this day Mormons consider Independence, Missouri as a holy site, but Utah is the headquarters of the LDS Church and the predominant residence of Mormons in the US.

It is for all intents and purposes a theocratic state within the US.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/23/b...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Utah#Settlement_by_...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order

I didn’t suggest if it is happening in Utah it isn’t for religious reasons, but I don’t think criticism of porn is strictly a religious issue.

There’s evidence that the perception of “porn addiction” is mostly a religious thing, probably because it is a way of resolving conflict between the values of a religious identity group with which the “addict” identifies for cultural/social reasons and the “addict’s” preference for porn by externalizing/pathologizing the preference.

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