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Toronto – Last week the CRTC approved a new Canadian pay channel called Northern Peaks.

The new pornography will channel will have 50 percent Canadian content.

The CRTC says that the decision to approve an adult content channel was made without moral influence.

With the new channel comes the inevitable debate on pornography’s effects on society.

From the Calgary Herald:

(1) addiction, where the need to view pornographic materials leads to a loss of free control over behaviour;

(2) escalation, where the person delves into progressively harder pornography, usually to attain the same level of sensation and arousal;

(3) desensitization, whereby the user is no longer morally sensitive to the shocking, illegal, repulsive, perverted or immoral quality of the material, but instead views it as acceptable and begins to look upon others as objects; and

(4) acting out, where the fantasizing becomes overt behaviour.

Other say that the new pornography channel is nothing to dread.

Rob Breakenridge, The Edmoston Journal writes:

“Not positive in the sense of providing more job opportunities to those who get their kicks having sex in front of lights and cameras, but positive to society in general.”

“Consider that the amount of pornography has exploded with the onset of the Internet age, and sexual assaults in Canada have plunged dramatically over the last 15 years.”

“The arrival of Northern Peaks is nothing to dread — the worst emotion it should invoke in the rest of us is apathy”

The debate, it seems, rages on.