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There’s absolutely nothing they can do to ban porn, and the number of people who watch and view porn is so large they can’t arrest everyone, maybe just arrest their enemies?
Also this guy is obviously a pedophile or something, no one else spends this much time talking about porn
Someone should check these idiots' hard drives. I'm willing to bet they have a lot of nasty stuff that's already illegal on there.
It will be several orders of magnitude worse than prohibition era policies if it passes, although I suspect part of the impetus is because save for the ideologues they are better at competing and prospering in black markets than they are in open markets.
"If all porn got deleted from the internet there would only be one site left and it would read 'Give us back our porn' " - Dr Cox
If Dr Cox and Mr Cox cable got together for a video it would be two cox at the same time! Highly illegal to have two cox at the same time once this law passes. I need to find more cox at the same time videos to watch before I can't watch two cox at the same time anymore!
I love cox
New Bill sounds like kind of a dick. Bring back old Bill.
You got it Baybee!
God I hope they do. It'll be hilarious to watch how quickly all the incels turn on Trump. Not to mention all the married Conservatives who hate their wives.
yeah, except this is the first step in Project 2025 to genocide trans people:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17416590241312149
Pornography, he writes:
[is] manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children [. . .] It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed (Roberts, 2023: 5).
This invocation of pornography is intentionally broad, vague, and amorphous. By equating trans issues (“transgenderism” and “transgender ideology”) with pornography, child abuse, and misogyny, this vision takes one step toward the outlawing of trans people altogether. Roberts (2023) goes on to detail the draconian and restrictive mechanisms necessary for eradicating pornography and all that comes with it: “The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered” (p. 5). Such extreme rhetoric signals a no-holds barred approach to regulating gender, sexuality, and privacy. Aware that more left-leaning states would be unlikely to arrest trans people on such counts, the document later details a wider plan through which the Department of Justice would intervene and prosecute any local officials not willing to bring criminal action against LGBTQ people (Hamilton, 2023: 553).
Honestly, I'm the idiot here for not immediately assuming this was somehow about attacking trans people.
Damn, there goes OnlyFans, republicans just killing more american jobs.
It always comes out the people writing and advocating for these end up the sickest and most twisted sexual deviants out there
How long until he gets busted for CSAM (real CSAM, not the drawn stuff).
ALWAYS
60% of the time, it works everytime
You know what's crazy? The part about feeling shame. There's been some recent studies about a lot of previously diagnosed sex/porn disorders and addictions being tied to shame due to misinformed religious conservative upbringing. If anything, we need to be talking about and teaching more about sex. Not learning about it correctly leads to hangups and shame about the human body, love, and self love that makes you nearly incapable of showing or expressing yourself correctly. That's why all these conservatives are so fucking weird.
The lowest my self esteem had ever been was when I was religious. I'd avoid porn and masturbation for months on end, 6-8 etc, but eventually I'd get a little too turned on and "succumb" to it. I remember hearing peers discuss it as something disgusting, and I considered myself too impure to consider having a relationship.
I won't say my self esteem is amazing now, but I feel much better about myself, and don't think of myself as some terrible sinner who doesn't deserve happiness.
Thank you for sharing that. I'm glad to hear you're feeling better. Just remember that no one is perfect. The older I get the more I reflect back to times or abuses that may have hindered my emotional intelligence. Getting to the root of my own self loathing or anger has made me realize I don't need to continue feeling that pain of the past and bringing it to the present. It's a struggle but I try and just be honest with myself and remember that I am the one that needs to know myself better, learn to rewire that past trauma, and move on with better senses and awareness through my experiences. Let the present mold your future and keep fighting the good fight.
They are also scared to touch their own buttholes to clean them properly. If you talk to any of them, they are against using bidets.
If you're not willing to touch your own butthole, you shouldn't be having sex. It works for both generally and in the moment.
You guys touch your buttholes? You don't scrub them with a loofa until they bleed?....huh.
This will backfire spectacularly. Red states are bigger fans of porn than blue.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023120908472
Do it, cowards.
There's SCOTUS precedent saying that pornography--but not obscenity--is covered by 1A. (Obscenity isn't very well defined, but it's generally understood to mean pedophilia/anything involving minors (including drawings), certain acts of violence combined with sex, bestiality, and possibly necrophilia. Other extreme sexual acts--such as crush fetishes--might also fall under obscenity.) You can't pass laws to unspool constitutional rights; your only legal recourse is either stacking the court with people that want to change precedent, or amend the constitution.
This bill is trying to get it all legally classified as obscenity. They're leaning into obscenity already being illegal, they just want to extend the classification to include basically all nudity and porn.
If you think the porn industry is exploitative and abusive now, just wait until they push it all underground.
The studios will move out of the country, most likely.
Some will. But like with alcohol prohibition, many of the people who work in the industry will just go to work in the black market.
I suspect the OnlyFans crowd may do that.
Most definitely. And since their entire job is illegal, why not go all-in and do more illegal stuff on cam for higher pay? That would be my thought process.
Given how little the vast majority of creators make on that platform, I suspect most of them will just quit.
There will definitely be a few that keep going though, I wonder what the penalty will be? And how much enforcement will there be?
Is it because they know that Russian porn is better than American porn?
It would be for 10 hours, then Trump would remove the bill and be seen as an hero. As usual.