Residents of Iceland soon may not be able to turn to the Internet to keep them warm at night. The tiny European nation is considering banning access to online pornography—the first Western nation to use Internet filters for such censorship.

Iceland’s interior minister Ogmunur Jonasson, who is drafting the legislation, says easy access to online porn not only increases the frequency and severity of sexual violence against women, but also causes long-term damage to children who view the material.

At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve this,” an advisor to Jonasson told the Daily Mail. “But surely if we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.”

Iceland already bans the printing and distribution of pornography, but its laws have not been updated to include Internet versions of erotic materials. Jonasson assembled task forces to decide the best way to tackle such a ban since Internet porn is available through such a variety of devices and sources. Under consideration are methods including blocking all porn-related IP addresses and making it illegal to use Icelandic credit cards to access X-rated Web sites.

The new agenda follows a government investigation into the Icelandic justice system’s handling of rape cases that began in 2010. The inquiry led to a consultation on porn, including teachers, law enforcement and child abuse organizations. It concluded that the extremely violent nature of online pornography was increasing the intensity of sex attacks, and that children exposed to violent pornography at an early age showed signs of trauma similar to those who had been sexually abused.

We have to be able to discuss a ban on violent pornography, which we all agree has a very harmful effects on young people and can have a clear link to incidences of violent crime,” Jonasson told the Daily Mail.

Iceland has become known for its feminist policies, including a 2010 ban on strip clubs, which legislators argued were harmful to women.

It is looking at pornography from a new position – from the perspective of the harm it does to the women who appear in it and as a violation of their civil rights,” Reykjavik University’s Gail Dines told the Telegraph. “It also approaches porn from the point of view of children who are having their sexuality hijacked at a young age by brutal sexual imagery.”

If I was a guy living in Iceland right now, I’d be hopping a plane to mainland Europe. What are they going to do with their lonely nights…and their lonely hands? Sure Iceland’s lesbian prime minister may not be bothered by the whole thing, but what about the dudes in the nation? No strip clubs, no porn of any type… maybe they should just legalize prostitution.