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It is mind boggling to me that in the year 2023 we're complaining about porn, LGBT existence, and fucking book content. Isn't this what we were laughing at 20 years ago? About book burnings and how stupid the previous generations were for fearing and banning media that challenged them?
So, let's get this straight. They're going to take a bunch of dudes, take away their porn, not teach them sexual health, not tech them about consent, strip abortion rights, make women scared to come forward, teach them it was their fault, and do nothing about police ineptitude/corruption. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that it seems like the GOP wants a generation of rape babies. Banking on their future voting bloc?
This is not going to stop porn. All it will do is criminalize the actors, producers, and viewers.
I'm reminded of the drug war, where they took a relatively harmless narcotic used disproportionally by minority populations at the time (Marijuana), and used it to criminalize and imprison large swaths of the population, especially within the black community.
It's no coincidence that most of the folks targeted by this effort are women and sex industry workers, which skew liberal by a large degree. Note I'm not just talking about prostitution or porn actors, but the entire sex industry, including toys and books.
The GOP is scared shitless of the rising power of women in modern society, and being able to criminalize and consequently attack the revenue stream of sex industry workers is a way to blunt it. There's also an element of class warfare involved, as OnlyFans or similar sites are often the most economical way for a young woman to lift herself out of poverty if she has no other marketable skills.
It's always incredibly ironic when the party that favors small govt, minimal State, is also the one that loves to make the most bullshit laws curtailing personal freedom.
As someone who stood in front of some dude trying to force me to suck his dick (and I fucked off immediately) and getting back assaulted by randoms on the midschool (while dressed) yet I'm still an hetero, biological male...? What the heck is going on? Why on earth I'd start sucking dicks just because I saw some dude naked on screen? That'd be ridiculous, and a demonstration of a severe lack of wit and common sense.
That is like, staring at my own cock would make me gay or something amongst those lines.
Look you can call me any name in the book. The current where children can easily form para social relationships with what are essentially pornstars and it's extremely easy for teenagers to become sex workers isn't healthy.
I'm not saying Hawley is right but there needs to be some real effort to address this.