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‘Ask for the change you want’: Conference in Utah emboldens crusade against pornography and bikini-flaunting billboards

Couples thumbed through books with titles such as Pandora’s Box is Open, Now What Do I Do? and Shattered Hearts. Parents pushed strollers past banners offering advice on how to talk to their kids. And scattered throughout the crowd gathered Saturday in Salt Lake City were people wearing red shirts emblazoned with the slogan: Fight the new drug.

“Doing something is better than nothing,” Suzanne B Spencer said during the 16th annual Utah Coalition Against Pornography (UCAP) conference, the second such convention hosted in Salt Lake City since Utah formally labeled pornography a public health crisis in 2016.