Studies have shown that in places where porn is blocked, rape occurs at higher frequencies than in places where that is not the case, possibly due to higher levels of feelings of frustration and repression. This may be only one website now, but if others likewise follow the trend out of fear of litigation… then Texas may become a much more dangerous state to live in in the very near future, even compared to what it already is now.
Studies have shown that in places where porn is blocked,
rapefreedom occurs at higher frequencies than in other places **FTFY
(/s obv)
Yeah! Personal rights! Personal choice! We shouldn’t have government telling us what to do.
Conservatives crack down on policies involving porn
Okay I guess they know what’s best for me yes papa gubberment
So long as the libterds get pwnd. Which they definitely did. By blocking my porn. You see the way it works is uh…
Would you be okay with letting children freely watch people having sex? The issue is not with freedom its with what we allow minors to see. I dont know how it is possible to stop this, but I agree its a problem that needs to be addressed if possible.
I mean, unintentionally, but I’ve been walked in on by my little one before. You can’t always control what your kids are gonna see.
It isn’t rocket science; it’s education. Being sexually repressed is a choice - a bad one. Sit down with your kids, teach them the birds and the bees, and maybe they won’t end up with a completely unrealistic view of sex.
Sexual repression is the American way. Americans wonder why Europeans are buckwild in this regard, and it’s because they have healthy conversations about sex and regard it as natural. They still have laws involving minors and all that, but their view is much more humanistic.
Unless the internet is dismantled and containerized, there’s no realistic way to prevent minors from viewing porn. The problem is that American parents have puritanical views on sex and rely on prohibition rather than being uncomfortable and having a chat with their kids about one of the most natural things humans engage in because they themselves are prudes. It’s the same reason people get all wound up when they see a pair of boobs, because they view them as sexual objects and not yet another part of the human anatomy. Mind boggling, but that’s religious influence for you.
Important to always remember America started because a bunch of hyper religious folks thought the Church of England was too permissive, named themselves “Puritans”, and sailed off to a new land. And many still hold to those warped values today
Many of there were kicked out for their repressive ways too.
Seeing sex accidentally of your parents is different than porn. Porn is unhealthy and is ruining minors and adults lives. If we have the capability to stop minors form seeing porn, then everyone should be on board with that.
First sentence, I agree. Second, factually incorrect. 3rd, i agree, parents should be monitoring their children and teaching them about birds and bees for their age, giving them knowledge so they dont go looking cause they are curious.
Nothing said restricts websites in a whack a mole fashion as this will never work. Kids will always find a way around restrictions.
Porn is unhealthy, if you disagree then you are obviously wrong, and anyone with an ounce of wisdom could tell you that.
Did Andrew Tate sell you a bunch of pills to leave the Matrix as well?
Crime is ruining people’s lives, if we can just make everyone demonstrate that they aren’t committing crime at any given time, crime will go down. So everyone should be on board with that.
Strawman
Oh and the stupid child going into a strip club vs accessing something at home argument isn’t?
I saw printed and video porn right around the time I hit puberty, decades ago, before there was internet in every home. And my parents didn’t have a scrap of it in the house. You think you can stuff that cat back in the bag? You wanna know what actually messed me up though? All the adults in my life absolutely losing their minds at the thought that I might be having sexual thoughts as a young teen. The guilt, shame, and denial of information is what messes up kids, because if they never told us anything, and made us feel horrible about it, surely we’d never have sex before marriage! Be careful, that can backfire on you.
Your kids are gonna see naked people doing it. You need to come to terms with that inevitability, and become the kinds of parents they can feel comfortable asking questions. Of course, growth is hard, and way too many parents delude themselves into believing that bringing some poor kid into this world bestows them divine wisdom and ultimate authority over what’s best for that kid, and never learning another damned thing again. It doesn’t. Parenting is a responsibility and a journey, not a coronation. Growing up doesn’t stop when you have kids. You cannot shield them from reality. It’s your job to guide them through it; to raise them into adults, not to keep them children forever.
You certainly have no right, or even ability, to legislate the nature of reality for others until you feel safe. That deluded fantasy is far more poisonous to society than people having sex on camera. It simply does not matter if you’re uncomfortable with an aspect of parenting. The world does not give a fuck. Nobody ever said parenting was comfortable. Accept what you cannot change, and help your kids become functional adults. You cannot imagine how much I wish my parents had.
So then you dont seem to think any action is good, you are okay with children seeing porn?
Children seeing porn is the lesser evil in a choice of that or authoritarianism. The police are not allowed to just come onto property and demand everyone there prove they have the right to be. Does that mean that lots, and lots, and lots, of people enter property when they aren’t allowed? Yes, does this mean that sometimes people get away with serious crimes? Again, yes. However the downsides of the 4th amendment are lesser than having cops forcing everyone they don’t know to prove their identity and that they aren’t doing anything wrong.
The 1st amendment means that people will be exposed to things, considered speech for legal purposes, that are not good for them. This is less bad than the government getting ever more control over speech. In order to to have freedom you will have to accept that bad things will arise from it.
So if children are at a strip club the government should not intervene?
Kids have never been allowed in strip clubs. You’re using a slippery slope argument.
Looks like you didn’t read or understand anything I said.
It doesn’t matter whether any of us are okay with them seeing porn or not. They are going to see it. Do you think you can put that cat back in the bag? Do you think it matters whether your kids can come to you with questions WHEN, not if, they have questions about sex? The actions I think need to be taken are people like you growing up and learning how to actually parent.
You might as well ask whether we should be ok with them finding out about extinctions.
So since they will see it anyways, we shouldnt take action to try to prevent it?
Why do you think it needs to be prevented? Do you seriously still think it’s possible to prevent? Do you think it matters whether your children can come to you about questions when they inevitably look at porn and have questions?
It’s always bonkers (and rather telling) how conservatives always frame anything sex as pushing it directly for children, like not banning porn is the same as launching pornhub Jr.
I guess yall gotta project super hard to cover all the Republicans on the state level in multiple states that have actively been fighting minimum marriage age laws and incest laws.
“NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO TEACH CHILDREN ABOUT SEX, THEIR BODIES, OR CONSENT - until they marry uncle jimbob when they turn 10 and get pregnant”
Pornhub Jr is a great idea. You could have unskippable ads that teach sex ed topics like how to deal with puberty and preventing STIs. It would keep the kids off elsagate and you could satisfy their curiosity about adult topics in an age appropriate way.
Gotcha, you dont actually understand what texas was doing…
Texas doesn’t understand what it is doing.
Try doing your job as a parent, this “protect the children” act is such horseshit
So for the kids with shitty parents, should they just be allowed in strip clubs?
If the strip club is in their house.
Gotcha, avoiding the question because it points out your poor logic.
I didn’t avoid the question. You made a a bad comparison.
If the strip club was streaming, and children could access it via their home computers, then no the strip club should not be held responsible. That is the parent’s job, and if the parents suck, the parents need to suffer the consequences, no one else.
However, you have made statements that make me doubt there are very many authoritarian measures you wouldn’t agree with, in regards to restricting access to porn, because you are one of those people who blames a disproportionate amount of society’s ills on porn.
If you do not want something - an abortion, a vaccine, porn, to own a gun, etc. - then the solution is simply: do not take it. Beyond that, why heap heavy burdens upon other people, rather than offering to help?
I am saying that “children watching people having sex” is not the issue here. Some few sickos aside, I think MOST people are agreement on that point. The issues are all the other issues surrounding that topic - e.g. who should be the ones held responsible for stopping that.
Like, why not the parents? It is exceedingly easy to block websites from a home router, and from devices such as ipads, so why should the website be the one upon whom all of the blame and burden should go to? Will Amazon be next, b/c it is possible to find sex toys on it? What about Wal-Mart, b/c you can purchase dangerous ammunition there? For that matter, any child can go into a gun show and see rifles and ammunition on display - why are those not banned? Children have even been known to be able to purchase those weapons, which are literally lethal - which is far worse than merely seeing some skin!!!
Fwiw I think you mean well, but are missing the nuances of this discussion. Children will end up seeing porn - someway, somehow, I guarantee you that it is possible, b/c that is simply how the internet works. It is like playing whack-a-mole and you can’t stop them all, especially like 90% of all domain names are already registered to porn and pirate websites. This law will not have the effect that it is intended to stop - and there is a goodly chance that it will make things worse actually, bc when people go off the well-trodden pathways, they will find themselves in the… darker corners of the internet.
Then again, I am not a lawmaker, so what do I know. I was just sharing my thoughts, in case they would be of interest to you.
I wonder how many adults here saw porn as a kid? If we’re being honest, probably the majority. Kids don’t find youporn unless they’re looking for it.
There is a highly effective way of preventing kids accessing porn, by being a parent and watching them (ie, put the computer in a public area) and also installing porn blockers in parallel. That’s the solution.
The problem with laws like this, is that they’re easy to abuse and they’re created by people who don’t understand technology either (so they’re happy to make tech less useful, or they’d even ban some of it entirely if they could be to level the playing field).
It’s more important to keep kids away from unsolicited porn specifically and creeps, and that can be some simply by requiring a site warning and monitoring them online
It’s more important to keep kids away from unsolicited porn
That’s how I’ve seen porn for the first time, when I was around 7. From advertisements. Physical ones.
One Slovakian pawn shop chain called “Breva” used this as an advertising strategy. Their advertisement leaflets (put into mailboxes) had nudes. I remember I secretly collected those.
Of course, they were reported for this a couple times, but all that happened was that they got into the news a few times. (Read that as “Free advertising”) Based on news, it seems last occurrence of this was 2017.I mean, I remember its name because of that, so I guess it worked…
I was exposed to it when I was 10, back when the internet was just starting to take off. It’s not that big a deal…
It’s the parents job to parent, not the government or third parties.
There are numerous less problematic tools parents can use from parental controls to automated local monitoring to good ol fashion monitoring to good (read: not “abstinence only”) sexual education.
Sex as a whole should be demystified as a culture. I’m sure most people got into porn in general out of curiosity and the taboo nature of it certainly only makes it more enticing.
What we need is sex education that is so comprehensive/ in depth that it’s mind numbingly boring.
Make them memorize the PH value of the uterus and how they affect the alkili levels of the spermatosa.
Just bog them down with the details and then they will give so much less of a shit about sex/porn in general.
Would you be okay with a porn website requiring a copy of your government identification and then turning your viewing data over to the government?
Do you trust the websites and government to not get breached or release data?
Or is this Mike Johnsons burner account and it’s not enough to know what porn his son is watching?
Easy solution, watch your kids and don’t act like they are somebody’s else responsibility.
What’s your point? Are you advocating for increased rape here? What problem needs to be addressed? Kids watching porn? My kids don’t. I don’t know what this post has to do with that, but the Texas government isn’t protecting my kids here.
The point is that Texas is trying to reduce porn for minors, that is what this whole thing is about.
And you think this law is effective at doing that?
When did I say that?
When did you even answer a single question, my friend? I don’t think you are communicating honestly.
Would you be okay with letting children freely watch people having sex?
Yeah, I was 16 when I started masturbating and I understand I’m a late bloomer. 16 is a child.
[citation needed]
Here’s a couple. Not a regional porn ban = more rape like previous poster said, but this is the most relevant data I could find. …and this data isn’t great. My main takeaway from this search is that we need to direct some actual research into what access to porn does vs doesn’t do. Also specific categories of porn - I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that sexual violence increases with consumption of porn that glorifies rape; but then if porn made a point to model good practices around things like obtaining consent, I’d wager sexual violence probably decrease.
TLDR, it’s a complicated question, so take these with a grain of salt, but among the most credible sources I found, they trended toward porn and rape NOT being positively correlated.
“Victimization rates for rape in the United States demonstrate an inverse relationship between pornography consumption and rape rates.”
“The results showed that in none of the countries did rape increase more than nonsexual violent crimes [during a period of increased access to porn]. This finding in itself would seem sufficient to discard the hypothesis that pornography causes rape.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2032762/
Not really a good block of text to quote, but the gist is: “Porn doesn’t cause rape, but there’s more going on than just direct cause and effect”
https://vawnet.org/sites/default/files/materials/files/2016-09/AR_PornAndSV.pdf
You can use Google. Oh wait…
“Trust me bro”
I’m sure you preemptively provide citations for every claim you make.
Plus when you consider Texas’ abortion policies…
Might as well rename the state the Republic of Gilead.
Why do you think they’re doing it? Republicans don’t get born out of consent.
Hah
Sounds like it works right into their plans for controlling the population by forcing people to give birth then. What a hellscape. I’m so sorry for the good humans that live there.
Looks like woods porn is back on the menu.
i was raised in a dense city, still aware of the woods porn
oh! Didn’t know other people had those
When I was maybe eight my good buddy convinced the tennagers to let us hang out with them
They had a hang out area out in the woods. You had to climb under a fence while one of the strong kids lifted the bottom of the fence up. On the other side was a “river” you could cross with a swing rope someone had attached to the tree above. (it looked like a massive river as a kid. But after having gone back as an adult you could easily hop over without much notice)
Anyway, we ended up going back there pretty regularly just as a way to get away from where the adults could find us. We ended up finding this massive stash of magazines one of the older kids had at the spot
I was too young at the time to be interested but my buddy ended up stealing a couple so we could look at them with our other friends
I don’t understand, why not just mandate that parents should implement parental controls or something instead of blocking it for everyone? I think this is more the religious right agenda in action. Edit: not what pornhub did, but what TX was trying to do
Texas needs to control people because they believe in small government. How else do you display freedom and amall government other than restricting rights and punishing people? /s
Yes, this is part of their strategy to implement small government by controlling what hormones people can put in their bodies and whether they can have an abortion. The mandatory genital inspections for kids are also part of their small government initiative. #landofthefree
Remember when “penis inspection day” was just a dumb joke on the internet and not an imminent possibility?
I really like the penis inspection day joke, because it constructs a narrative of systemic rape culture that would have easily been normalised if it were real, and draws attention to the normalisation. It gets people thinking about rape culture without even noticing that they’re thinking. And thereby vaccinates people against normalisation of systemic rape. I believe the shitposters who laughed at penis inspection day memes are more likely to understand the absurdity of actual anti-trans legislation.
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That’s likely what they wanted and pornhub said “no, were not spending money to implement your fascist bullshit, instead no porn for you. Good luck.”
The murder and rape rate are about to skyrocket in Texas sadly enough.
They already had 26,000 rape related pregnancies, just 26,000 rape related pregnancies, NOT 26,000 total rapes.
I thought the same thing when I read that. I mean, there are other porn sites, but it’ll still drive up sexual assault.
Pornhub will lead the way, it’s extra cost and no business wants that shit.
Because they oppose porn for everyone
Except the gay porn, for themselves
They oppose that too. Many are the Anthony Comstock type
What a knob.
That motherfucker singlehandedly proved that free speech in the US is a myth.
The whole biography was yikes and somehow got worse with every line
Yeah he’s a real son of a bitch. And his legacy still haunts us.
I hope I’m lucky to live long enough to watch Texas secede. I’ll probably just watch the rest of the US become Texas, though.
last time a state tried to secede a civil war broke out
That’s right, you’ve got the idea! I would much prefer if they were left alone to implode of their own devices, though.
People who say this shit don’t care about history. Or facts. Or consequences.
There’s no higher purpose for them than being edgy on the Interne.
lmao. cute.
There’s no higher purpose for them than being edgy on the Interne.
It couldn’t be that I don’t want successful states financing conservative dystopias, right? It couldn’t be that I see conservatives controlling the US narrative and federal government as bad for everyone on the planet, right? That I understand the consequences very well, and consider it harm reduction compared to the current trajectory?
No, surely it must just be the edge.
Y’allQaeda is not something to encourage
I will crank one out on behalf of my Texan friends tonight. The ones who don’t know how to bypass this, that is
I will proxybate as well.
We are all not from Texas on this here day
Both mullvad and proton are trusted top VPNs. Either is fine, look at both and choose which ever one you feel like. There isn’t a wrong choice.
I also raise you IVPN which is pretty comparable to Mullvad, though for similar price you only get 2 devices as opposed to 5 with Mullvad. They have better clients than Mullvad, but that’s about it.
Both Mullvad and IVPN can also be paid in cash.There’s also AirVPN, but I am not sure about the privacy aspects of that. They’re also based in Italy, which isn’t very good. However, at 3 months or more you get same or even lower price than with Mullvad, and also 5 Forward ports.
Jeez any VPN is fine if all you want it for is a bit of out-of-state jiggle physics.
VPN sales skyrocket in Texas…
This is dumb, Texas is the swinging capital of the US.
“You have failed the vibe check.”
Texas, yawn. Anyways.
Don’t sex with texas.
Maybe we should cool it with the ban-hammer on stuff and people alike, huh?
Ban this Texan!
Maybe the Texan government shouldn’t pass stupid laws.
Ban this Texan!
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