Well that sucks

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, ~~rape~~ freedom 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
  
  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.
- [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."
  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222552404_The_pleasure_is_momentarythe_expense_damnable_The_influence_of_pornography_on_rape_and_sexual_assault
   
  "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"
- Plus when you consider Texas' abortion policies...
  Might as well rename the state the Republic of Gilead.
- 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.
- Why do you think they're doing it? Republicans don't get born out of consent.
  
  Hah
- More dangerous? You mean the amount of firearms littered throughout the damn state aren’t bad enough?
  
  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.
  As in, it was dangerous, but a look at its next door neighbor Mississippi should convince anyone that it can always become more so.
- 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.
  
  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).

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
- 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.
- Because they oppose porn for everyone
  
  Except the gay porn, for themselves

- Y'allQaeda is not something to encourage
- last time a state tried to secede a civil war broke out
  
  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.
- Texas makes up nearly half of the US's domestic oil production, no way in hell they'd ever let that go.

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 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

Protonvpn.com
- https://mullvad.net/en/vpn
  For any who don't know, these folks got raided by Swedish authorities, who left empty-handed.
  
  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.

Don’t sex with texas.
- sextas
  
  Petition to refer to this event as Sexit

VPN sales skyrocket in Texas...

Texas, yawn. Anyways.

This is dumb, Texas is the swinging capital of the US.

"You have failed the vibe check."

Nothing but steers and queers.. which one are you?
- Also beers.
- Tears 😂

XXXVPN LIKES THIS 👍

TIL El Dorado really exists.

And nothing of value is lost.

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.
- 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.
  
  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).
  
  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.

Reason: bruh moment
Nice to see reddit is still as gross as it was when I left it
- "Bruh moment" isn't exclusive to the internet, and came before the reddit moment.
  
  Reddit turned into a nazi thing when they got their hands on it.

Yes, suggesting an outcome that would result is bloodshed of thousands or possible millions of people is very fucking cringe.
- ????
- Not to worry, I have inside info from PornHub, and they assured me no people living in Texas were harmed during the ban.

since pornhub keeps enshittifying, whats a better website you all are using instead?
- I'm not sure how it's their fault when Texas's attorney general sued them specifically for not complying.
  
  They are enshittifying, separately from this issue though.
- e621 🗿
  
  A man of culture, i see.
- Xvideos, xnxx, and xfree
- FYI, yt-dlp works on PH.
- Spankbang

- and yet here you are, on lemmy, home of the deranged and freedom pilled, people who believe censorship and restriction is not the way.

Can they please ban the whole world?
- Just the parts with leaders that hate freedom.
  
  I don't think there's any leaders that hate freedom. They just don't care about yours.
- 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?
  
  Pretty sure they mean that Texas should ban the whole world.
  
  I wish Pornhub should ban the whole world. They profit off of rape, incest, and cp. That trash needs to go.