Larrow first mentioned the idea in a Performance Monitoring Committee Meeting on Oct. 20 during the discussion of the district’s freedom of expression policy. He vocalized the idea again during a school-sponsored community panel on teens’ abuse of drugs and alcohol in Teton County.

Larrow believes there is a stigma around the topic that the community needs to shake.

“It’d be nice to have community meetings about pornography — how it affects students, what’s going on, what the numbers are,” he said. “Let’s get on this. It’s just as critical as alcohol and drugs and it’s in front of their faces every single day. It’s more accessible and just as detrimental physically and emotionally.”

He thinks Jackson Hole needs to “wake up” and have this much-needed discussion.

Information Coordinator Charlotte Reynolds said that there is not currently a community meeting scheduled on the topic.

“At this time, the inquiry into pornography is a topic that may be covered at a later time as we are in the midst of determining what resources the community may be able to offer on the topic and if this is a topic that should be addressed by the school system,” Superintendent Gillian Chapman said in an email. “I would not incorporate this topic in the school day, but rather make it an evening forum for interested parents.”

Chapman said that the district is committed “to supporting the health and well-being of our students and partner with parents to provide information on a variety of topics.”

While local medical professionals think pornography addiction is a possibility, they aren’t sure it’s the most pressing issue to discuss.

“I suppose it’s possible,” Dr. Jim Little said. “Teenagers can get addicted to television, the internet, their computers or their phones. I don’t know whether I’d discuss it in the same breath as alcohol and drugs, but it certainly can be a problem.”

Deirdre Ashley, executive director at the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center, agreed.

“Addiction is addiction,” Ashley said. “There’s probably some truth to that.”

Dr. Jim Little Jr. said that “while there are many kinds of addictions that affect people,” he doesn’t think pornography addiction is an immediate threat to teenagers in the valley.

“There’s a big difference between teenagers who look at pornography on the internet and giggle about it or get excited about it and people who are addicted to pornography,” Little Jr. said. “Not everyone who looks at pornography is addicted to pornography. Not everyone who drinks alcohol is addicted to alcohol.”

Finding strictly secular speakers to address the topic might be tricky, as a lot of anti-pornography groups are religious in nature or message. A popular organization amidst millennials, Fight the New Drug, is known for its social media campaigns and billboards in cities such as San Francisco that state, “Porn kills love.”

Larrow had heard of the organization before and thought it might be a good idea until he realized a complicating factor. Even though the organization is not officially affiliated with any religion, the Utah-based nonprofit’s senior research consultant is Dr. Jason Carroll, a professor of Marriage and Family Studies in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University.