13 state GOP govts put forward bill to tax porn

[Person Man]

Makes sense. If you try to ban abortion, you should morally have to ban masturbation, too.

[Person Man]

What happened to big gubmint?

Its not the size, its how you use it!

[Person Man]

There's nothing shameful about normal human male sexuality.

FTFY.  That reminds me of when I was taking a "contemporary moral issues" course in freshman year of college.  The topic was porn and I decided to point out that men aren't the only people that watch porn.  Of course, the other girls in the class sassed me and left me out to dry.  We all live in the dorm together, I know that they do it too.  Hypocrites. 

Anyway, I'm all for combating human trafficking but slapping a porn-dar on ISPs isn't the way to do it.  Most porn doesn't have anything to do with that.  There are some places that take the safety and protection of their workers very seriously.

Oh. Don't get me started!

[Person Man]

Heavy involvement in pornography is likely bad for people. Pornography proves, all in all, a surrogate for sex. It is far more likely to impose loneliness than to break the ice in a relationship. For participants, it is horrible. I am told that women who became Playboy centerfolds (and this is the mildest form of heterosexual porn involving women as sex objects) have high rates of either becoming fundamentalist Christians (now that is a decisive rejection of what they had been) or becoming messed up on drugs and alcohol. Women who thought that they might be advancing their acting careers have found that involvement in even the softest-core porn is not good for them. Then there is the harder stuff that is more blatant and destructive. There are lots of suicides in that activity.

I can understand why people use porn. If they are lonely and expect to remain so, as on an oil rig or a ship with a single-sex crew, then I understand. Porn is better than sexual harassment or prostitution -- safer for its user, at the least, and possibly an employer or spouse. But we have plenty of other questionable activities from strip clubs to gambling casinos to 'rough' bars.     

Like Pamela Anderson and Jenna Jameson joining the altRight?

[Person Man]

Ok...what does porn have to do with Human Track flicking? And who even pays for porn these days? And what are these 13 states anyway?

Taking clients to a strip club is considered human trafficking by my current employer.

[Person Man]

Ok...what does porn have to do with Human Track flicking? And who even pays for porn these days? And what are these 13 states anyway?

Taking clients to a strip club is considered human trafficking by my current employer.

...yeah I don't think I need to explain how ridiculous that is. And I actually think internet porn is more of an issue than strip clubs.

Why? Because there's no human element to it, and it's so ubiquitous and easy to obtain. You can't go to a strip club with a few clicks, and even if you do, even if you are going just to look at people dancing naked, you'll still have a personal connection, maybe even some good conversations and become a friend. I know that I did, many times. Plus strip clubs hardly ever employ trafficking victims and there's not much need since the easy money ensures so many local women will do it. Regardless of the results of that economic situation, it's a fact. Going to a strip club is a beneficial activity with a human connection. Watching hordes of internet porn isn't.

Yeah, I feel you. And this is coming from the "liberal" defense contractor that started recognizing gay relationships in 2003. But yeah. In my time when I was adrift professionally, I spent a good deal of time at strip clubs. Learned a thing or two about how some people live and all kinds of interesting life hacks. Not to mention that they are where you go to find pot in the redder of states. It is definitely a bridge to unique stories and for every story that is as funny as it is sad, you hear real stories of courage.

Sex work in general is definitely one of those issues where you have a lot of very interesting middle-class people enjoying and expressing themselves and what they do and then this might all be happening alongside what more or less is rape. This is an issue where every simple solution is the wrong solution.