Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.
Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.
The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”
If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn
I agree with you. However, that’s oversimplifying the matter. I don’t think every case in which “porn helped prevent a rape” has porn as the one and only reason.
So? If porn is the only thing that stopped me from getting raped, then my problem is solved. I’d call that a win.
The perspective we need
Religion can sometimes prevent mass murderers, so you’re absolutely right
Doubt.
I’m full on anti-religion, but some crazies have said the fear of eternal damnation is the only reason they don’t go out murdering
Yes. But not the problems of the victim.
While true it still is stopping them. I don’t really care that much of a person is intrinsically a good person or not I care what their action’s are.
Question: what do you call someone capable of the act of rape that has never raped anyone? Answer: normal.
Well said. In a world without stop signs, traffic lights, laws and judges, the people who think they’re the most wholesome may otherwise be the most vicious perpetrators.
We like to think being a good person is an innate thing. Truth is, hatred, jealousy, lust, anger, murder, rape, violence - they’re all human nature. Every single person reading this comment is capable of murder if the set of circumstances required it. Societal conditioning (including education), the environment you’re raised in, social punishments, the threat of lack of freedom, and learned introspection are the factors preventing people from doing these things.
If you’re the nicest person someone has met, then you lucked out, but it has very little to do with your ‘true nature.’ One caveat: some people seem to be born with a predisposition towards violence. Not many are porn with a predisposition to anti-violence. It’s as innate in humans as the English language.
I can’t count the number of times in AA and NA I heard stories about people not knowing it wasn’t ‘normal’ to get fucked up and beat their spouse until they were out of their parents house.
Thank you. This had to be said. Our culture is gravely ill…
Our… culture?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:War_crimes_committed_by_country
Indeed!