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    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.

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      Studies have shown that in places where porn is blocked, rape freedom occurs at higher frequencies than in other places *

      *FTFY

      (/s obv)

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        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

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          So long as the libterds get pwnd. Which they definitely did. By blocking my porn. You see the way it works is uh…

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      Plus when you consider Texas’ abortion policies…

      Might as well rename the state the Republic of Gilead.

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      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.

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      More dangerous? You mean the amount of firearms littered throughout the damn state aren’t bad enough?

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        That’s… not just a Texas thing, and yeah, bc saturation may have long been passed on that one, so this is newer territory to expand authoritarianism into.

        ing

        As in, it was dangerous, but a look at its next door neighbor Mississippi should convince anyone that it can always become more so.

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      While I disagree wholeheartedly with the relevant law, this is an incredibly dangerous argument to make against it. It insinuates an innate propensity towards sexual aggression and ignores many other factors that might occur alongside such laws.

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        There might be a misunderstanding. I was talking about a correlation between areas where where porn is blocked i.e. repressive regimes and rape. Not necessarily a casual effect from one directly to the other, although that might not be able to be ruled out either.

        Either way it is a question of fact, so not up to either of our mere opinions. Though I find that it is darn near impossible to find such things these days using Google - it refuses to show “relevant” results and instead tries to show only “recent” ones that it wants to promote, and DuckDuckGo is far too narrow to make that easy. So finding the full unvarnished truth is a research project that I do not want to undertake, though in case it helps to share my remembrance of having read such a thing once I thought I would offer. This is nowhere near my area of expertise so was only a comment not an authoritative statement of definitive fact.

        Also there could be other factors involved - e.g. higher incidents of rape in neighborhoods that tend towards being poorer and more heavily religious in nature, e.g. within the United States that would be Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, etc. I don’t recall if the study checked for similar levels of poverty but with different religious leanings - if suitably comparable places could even be found.

        So my statement was saying how sad it is that Texas is choosing to become more like e.g. Florida rather than more like e.g. California, or to remain more of its own separate thing as it has done in the past. Becoming “repressive” does not sound conducive to good health (especially women’s health).

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          Sorry, I mistook you as indicating a casual relationship between the two. I do hope to find some data on the issue once I have time.

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            If you find it, let us all here on Lemmy know - it looks like people are very interested (I know I would be to see a refresher). The sad part is how this stuff has been known for decades, but people just ignore it - e.g. “just grab 'em by the p$#&y”. There are some, like John Oliver and Innuendo Studios, who are doing fantastic work to spread awareness of matters that need attention (and Jon Stewart is back, sort of:-), but ofc that won’t reach the ears of people who refuse to listen, and instead choose to highly regard those who spread fear and chaos, most likely purely for profit reasons.

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    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

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      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

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    I will crank one out on behalf of my Texan friends tonight. The ones who don’t know how to bypass this, that is

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        I don’t think there’s any leaders that hate freedom. They just don’t care about yours.

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      I’m not sure I understand. You don’t think anybody should have the option of visiting pornhub specifically, or any porn site at all? And why?

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          That doesn’t make sense though. The post is that pornhub banned Texas. The object and subject got flipped around if you’re right.

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            This started because Texas banned Pornhub unless they complied with some draconian shit. So Pornhub’s response is to just ban Texas rather than comply with their bullshit.

            Effectively Texas said “do this or we sue you”… Pornhub just made Texas’ job easier.

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        I wish Pornhub should ban the whole world. They profit off of rape, incest, and cp. That trash needs to go.

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          Who gives a shit about incest if it’s between consenting adults lmao 99.8% of it is fake anyways

          You also must not have been to PH since “The Purge”, there’s hardly any actual amateur anything there anymore (For better or worse)

          Also, the irony here is in your username lmfao

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      “Bruh moment” isn’t exclusive to the internet, and came before the reddit moment.

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              Okay, if that’s true, who cares it’s a website used by a tiny percentage of people and to 99.999% of people it wouldn’t be considered a nazi thing lmao some of you act like reddit is real life and not some crappy social media where people create echo chambers where they use downvotes and up votes to perpetuate their tiny bubble world view that isn’t representative of real life. I’ve never heard of this, it’s definitely something only the perpetually online think. Lol. You’re giving too much power to these Russian trolls, bots, and brain dead Maga americans.

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                  except I gave you actual reasons, GO OUTSIDE AND TALK TO REAL PEOPLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Youve interacted with too many russian bots.

                  Nazis adopted that term in the same way maga crowd turned pepe into a racist meme–they didnt and only idiots buy into what they say, and normal people dont actually care about alt right repurposing pop culture lol they are too focused on living their lives

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    For people who says banning porn increases rape. That really feels like correlation not causation.

    Armenia for example is 4th country in terms of least rape Source Yet they ban pornography. World population review. Another would be Turkmenistan.

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      Big difference between reported rape and actual rape.

      That being said, I hope for Turkmenistan and Armenia these numbers are for actual rape, good on them if it’s low.

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        Yes, I agree generalisation is bad. But, I wanted to raise a counterpoint to what everyone here was saying. The end goal for the betterment of all of us is still no rape (hopefully one day).

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        Both countries have strong social constructs which imo will decrease the possibilities for potential rapists to act on their urges. It is imo not that the numbers of potential rapists is lower.

        What I doubt much more is that banning porn will significantly reduce actual porn consumption.

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          Egypt is lowest on the rape list. There is a huge stigma to report a rape in Egypt. From what I gather, nobody trusts the Egyptian numbers.

          My gut tells me the situation is similar in both Armenistan and Turkmenistan. Punishment for rape might be severe, but very likely the social pressure on the victims is also immense.