HCR 1006 Summary

• Declares that pornography creates a public health crisis in Oklahoma with harms beyond individual capability to address alone.

• Identifies 27% of older millennials (ages 25-30) reporting first pornography exposure before puberty, linked to low self-esteem, eating disorders, and risky sexual behavior in youth.

• States pornography normalizes violence and abuse toward women and children, treats them as objects, and research indicates it is biologically addictive requiring increasingly extreme material.

• Recognizes detrimental effects on family units, including reduced desire to marry among young men, marital dissatisfaction, and infidelity.

• Directs distribution of the resolution to the Governor, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma State Senate.