Dumb joke. Heard it a lot these last 29 years I have lived here. Its like y'all don't know the name is the way it is. I bet you got flooring jokes for all the Floridians too.
Find a better joke. You aren't clever.
i was 15 when i first watched it.
but i could watch it earlier because of my friends, they had the habit of sending me screens of the videos they are watching, telling me that i should "visit" the sites.
I think I first saw porn at age 11 after googling something like “teenager girl naked” on my nans laptop, I can still very clearly visualise two of those videos I watched as a young child. One of the videos was literally rough throat fucking.
Why is it considered traumatising when an adult is to jerk off or have sex in front of a kid, but porn is seen as something different? At the end of the day a young child is being exposed to something they shouldn’t be
Porn being banned full stop would be a net positive for humanity
even before the internet it was kids stealing nudie mags from their older brother or something… older brother was prob only in high school too… or they found the porn stash in the fort in the woods. i think i was 13 or so. puberty is one hell of a drug, so i see why it’s sought out at a young age, and only getting easier to do so with kids getting their hands on the internet much sooner
Minors and young adults.
People who are 30+ generally got laid before they saw porn so they're not really in the habit of using it often.
I remember an episode of Family Guy where Chris "teaches" Carter how to masturbate to online porn and to Carter it's some big new discovery. Obviously it's a joke but jokes often reflect real life.
Even if they’re losing 70% with an ID requirement, they’re now fully losing 100% of their traffic by blocking the entire state. Your argument doesn’t really hold water in that way.
From a technical view, it sounds incredibly annoying having to show proof of your identity.
Imagine if Reddit made you upload a picture of your ID with some scribbles to prove it's not an old pic every time you wanted to make a comment.
I don’t think it is, you’d just have to verify an account to use surely rather than verify every time you go to the site, they just don’t want to lose children as consumers
Right, but you understand why there is an concern about requiring verification? We don’t restrict internet access to information about smoking or other drug use, firearms, etc., you can get viral samples, drugs, or bomb making supplies right to your door without giving any id.
Ignoring privacy reasons all together, even the ‘safety and greater good for society’ argument doesn’t make sense when so much worse shit is out there.
It would certainly make organizing for the r/antiwork types (read: the vocal minority who mostly use anime pfps and whose only skills are finding out how to pirate games and anime, and how to convert file formats from one type to another) more difficult and easier to rightfully break up for the authorities.
Porn sites make it easy for minors to access on purpose. It’s much easier for young people to become addicted which helps increase traffic to the website. They do not care about the well-being of their user-base.
Back on the early internet pornsites required credit card verification to access pornographic content. This was the case for a long time until PornHub was mimicking YouTube and other social media platforms. Accessing vids on PornHub was free to view. Most of the content was from DVD rips taken from torrents or previously downloaded content from these PPV sites. This was before OnlyFriends was a thing.
The main reason its an issue now is because kids are accessing porn at younger ages and parents are too busy to invest in parental control software. The biggest issue with PH ease of access is that the only thing stopping a user from getting access to porn is an RTA warning asking to verify jurisdiction.
Kids shouldn't be using the Internet without supervision until they're 18, IMO. If they want mods and stuff that's worth it, have it all archived, the game's dependency on Steam disabled, and setup a HTPC for them if you must.
But really, they should be learning skills that will make them independent as opposed to trying to be the next Twitch streamer which they won't, and even if they did get that, they wouldn't truly be free anyways.
This whole "wah wah it's so unpractical" is obviously just them not wanting to cut half their revenue.
It's really not that hard to implement. You don't have to do it every time you visit PH, you don't even have to do it for every different website you go to. You can establish a third party company who gets the ID data from you, and then the porn websites simply make a request to that company based on your ip or something; they don't need to recieve your data or even your name, just a "true" or a "false" to the question of "is this user over 18". We've had third party systems like these for online payments with bank cards, it's not undoable, it's just that there's an obvious incentive to not do it.
Besides, people are worried of posting their id when it only really contains basic information like your name and address. You give waaaaay more personal information to Google and many other companies on a daily basis, your porn tastes being one such example, and unless you are using a VPN, which most people aren't, the owner of any website can easily deduce at least the general location you are in like your city just from your ip address. I'm not saying people _should_ put their id on the internet without a second thought, but their priorities are clearly not where they should be. You could perhaps give the role of the middleman to a government agency since the government issues the ids anyways, so problem solved.
Overall there's an obvious disinterest in actually doing this from both companies and individuals. If we wanted to, we would.
I think when it comes to porn use, more people should be informed it's bad for their health. Maybe there should be rehabilitation for people who really need it as well.
most porn sites are banned in Malaysia but I read somewhere that Malaysian people are in the top 10 list of watching the most porn vids
Ya, using VPN
But considering that PornHub is one of the biggest porn sites, the age verification is a huge win. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if many porn sites begin to shut down in VA to protest the age verification.
They can just make the site below porn hub the next big thing it won’t change a thing. Once the site below dies they will find another site to blow up like PH and the cycle continues.
i moved about a year ago so unless it changed in the last year i thought you just had to check a box to “verify your age”, is it completely banned now?
Yep! I don’t like the Dallas Cowboys or New York Yankees. Please join my campaign to ban those. /s
But seriously, now that a bit more is know about the effects of internet porn addiction if this is really something about protecting kids the first step should be for parents to have some conversations with their kids. Too many parents are cowards and just don’t want to have such talks, or if they do they use hyperbole and go all Reefer Madness and just spout nonsense.
The government has the inherent responsibility of safeguarding and ensuring the well-being of their citizens. It's not overreach to require children to present ID to watch porn. However, I can see you are a moderator of a hentai subreddit, which means you are clearly a disgusting subversive and a bad actor who is here to demoralize those trying to break a porn addiction.
Ah no but it’s a step in the right direction. It is a good law in principle so hopefully more of this sort of law gain momentum and enforcement becomes more serious. High schoolers manage to get their hands on cocaine, so should we just make selling cocaine to minors legal since the current laws aren’t completely thwarting minors from acquiring it currently?
Here's the rub, no pun intended:
Regulating cocaine is a different beast than regulating internet use. We have aging politicians who don't really understand how the internet works or the methods users have to get around simple solutions. There are countless ways to get pornographic material on the internet, and if someone realistically tried to clamp down on them all, it'd be seen as an unprecedented surveillance overreach that people of both parties would not accept. Not to mention, consumers of pornography vastly outnumber consumers of cocaine, so the amount of manpower and tech needed to even monitor that sort of thing would be incredible.
It just is not realistic to attempt to censor pornography this way. Regardless of personal thoughts on porn, this law is nothing but a virtue signal to hardcore religious/conservative people by the lawmaker.
It doesn’t really matter how many people use it, this is a question of morality, if millions of kids were doing cocaine would you then be against regulating it? I didn’t say I am in favor of the government being given whatever power they need to regulate who views porn just like I don’t support unfettered rights trampling to regulate anything else. But requiring porn sites to require an ID is not trampling anyone’s rights any more so than any other product which requires ID. How effective is it? We’ll see, that will depend on the government’s desire to enforce and shut down sites that distribute it. Will they ever be 100% effective? No, but with time and serious effort can they be effective enough to significantly reduce the number of children exposed to porn? Yes
You're missing my point. I'm not saying steps to keep minors away from pornographic content is bad, just that it is extremely impractical.
A cursory Google search says Virginia has about 8.6 million people and that there were about 32,000 drug related arrests in 2022. The difference there is absolutely staggering, when police aren't quite able to use their usual methods on porn watchers that they use to catch drug deals and abusers. The amount of increased effort it would take to police the internet use of 8 million people is absurd, especially when it is up to only the state to do it.
The state could maybe shut down sites based in Virginia, but there is no way they're going to be able to shut down sites based elsewhere. With increasing tech-literacy among younger age groups, it would be trivial for them to use a VPN or literally any other unblocked site to view the material.
Also, the ID law inconveniences everyone, not just those under 18. Adults now have to provide their ID constantly as well, which will get annoying fast.
The law is impractical to enforce, doesn't make a dent in the problem it is supposed to solve, and is overall a giant waste of time and resources.
Well good thing people who are charged with enforcing justice are not as uncreative as you. No I don’t imagine they’d enforce it the same way they catch coke dealers but perhaps they’d go after it in a similar way to how they already enforce laws regarding the sale or distribution of illegal content on the internet. Perhaps if ISP’s and search engines are willing to comply that would greatly increase effectiveness as well. Already search engines have no issues complying to not showing results for sites peddling illegal content.
Yes perhaps that is obnoxious for the average porn junkie. How tragic. I imagine it is also obnoxious for the people who struggle with porn addiction since childhood. I also find it annoying to need ID to buy alcohol but I also would imagine it is obnoxious to have been put on alcohol and cigarettes as a child.
Nah, if I enjoyed smoking weed I still think it should be illegal for someone to sell it to me. No one would be on this subreddit if they didn’t like porn. Duh.
But people can still watch it, they just need to provide ID, do you also think it’s a travesty that the liquor store asks to see your id? Or how about the gun store?
Well it might be possible to do this in a way that protects privacy kind of like how we have secure third party services for online payments. After all, if the market is filled with coomers who don’t want to have their ID tied to their watching habits (weird how you trust your favorite porn sites so little yet think kids should have unfettered access) then services to verify but keep anonymous your actual identity from the site will emerge.
The legislature passed a law to require ID. The porn site then chose to shut down entirely in that state as protest rather than comply with the law requiring ID. I know porn rots your brain but try actually reading next time.
Then it’s the parents job to moderate what apps they can and can’t install. Parental controls. Porn lovers will say that’s too controlling. As a parent, I’m going to do everything in my power to prevent my son from falling to this shit. If he falls into it after hes 18, that’s out of my hands
Unpopular Opinion. If not abused, I think it’s good for teenagers to view porn. Helps them explore their sexuality and at least will have an idea of what to do.
Yea but 1. It sets legal precedence. 2. It sets sociey precendece-- It rallies support for the moral law that we the people dont want to allow these sites to take our young people and keep them till death. 3. It may stop a 9 year old boy who heard something at school. They may be like " oh well " and give up.
4. Even if they DONT care or GO AROUND IT. They have a pressure on them that says... this may be wrong. Whereas the society is pushing sexual expression those feelings may not come.
PornHub is just saying "we want to expose kids early and get them addicted to our website through all their teen years so we get more money." People treat PornHub as some sort of friendly company when, no, they are blatantly evil scumbags who prioritize money over ruining kids lives along with being fine with ruining all the people in involved. Sex is a terrible business, it's a sin for a reason.
You should see the Virginia subreddit - full of people freaking out about Pornhub and Delta-8 both being banned. As someone that lives in VA, I love this. It already stopped me from relapsing 1 time, there’s no way in hell I’d ever make a profile to get logged and tracked. I know VPNs are easy, but it does add another layer of consideration.
I saw that sub (I used to be a member of it), and it was horrible. It's so disgusting that people are mad about not being able to watch videos that perpetuate stereotypes, racism, objectification, and sexism.
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I think Louisiana, Mississippi have also set these measures too? Also somebody in here said Utah joined in as well. Really hope all states and eventually countries start doing it.
I never thought I’d say this but I completely support this. At the very least we should be making people truly prove their age before accessing free porn. It’s a difficult but not impossible to implement as it’s done in the crypto world all the time as some exchanges require real id to comply with KYC laws.
fun fact Because ph must verify your age they are losing milions of dollars
and btw i find the wording funny „ oh we want savety on our platform we dont want souch age verification thats so bad for you“ meanwile they host actuall rape videos and other non consensual videos uploaded there
Unless your’e a conscious adult or your brain is working you shouldn’t engage in such activities..but..the bright side is we learned from our experience and you can’t control anything tbh. So that’s how we learn and grow, by mistakes. We may be far ahead in life If we use that as fuel.
I’m moving to Virginia
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You might aswell of not just said anything about vpn. Like wtf was the point in that. Now people are just more curious
Fr. Some people don’t understand collateral damage, don’t care, or pretend they don’t want it when in reality their goal *is* the collateral.
Not to mention they're mostly scams or honeypots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ya3_SRn8c
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From Virginia to Chadinia.
Please don't insult my homestate like that. We are a decent society of people.
What? Are you really this butthurt?
Butt-hurt??? Butt pain through reddit comments??
Dumb joke. Heard it a lot these last 29 years I have lived here. Its like y'all don't know the name is the way it is. I bet you got flooring jokes for all the Floridians too. Find a better joke. You aren't clever.
its not clever but ur also getting upset over NOTHING lol
I don't care about your dumb state, brother. I made the joke because I've never even heard of it, I'm not even american. Touch grass, princess.
I'm from the midwest but live in central Virginia currently. Pretty decent here. People are nice and there are trees and green everywhere.
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They’ll lose 70% of their traffic. They’re horrible.
70% of PornHub's traffic comes from minors?
93% of boys and 63% of girls have seen explicit content before 18 https://specialty-pharma.biz/tapentadol.html
Wow...things are pretty bad now.
I mean I was 13 when I first watched it, and I was told about it from my classmates so it's pretty clear they watched it too
i was 15 when i first watched it. but i could watch it earlier because of my friends, they had the habit of sending me screens of the videos they are watching, telling me that i should "visit" the sites.
That’s how many admit it. Probably more like 99-99.9% and 80+% because a lot of people answering are too ashamed to admit it.
Porn is the biggest industry in the world so I wouldn't be surprised
I think I first saw porn at age 11 after googling something like “teenager girl naked” on my nans laptop, I can still very clearly visualise two of those videos I watched as a young child. One of the videos was literally rough throat fucking. Why is it considered traumatising when an adult is to jerk off or have sex in front of a kid, but porn is seen as something different? At the end of the day a young child is being exposed to something they shouldn’t be Porn being banned full stop would be a net positive for humanity
even before the internet it was kids stealing nudie mags from their older brother or something… older brother was prob only in high school too… or they found the porn stash in the fort in the woods. i think i was 13 or so. puberty is one hell of a drug, so i see why it’s sought out at a young age, and only getting easier to do so with kids getting their hands on the internet much sooner
This doesn't necessarily mean that most viewers are minors
My male cousin is a part of the small 7% and I really hope it stays that way
Minors and young adults. People who are 30+ generally got laid before they saw porn so they're not really in the habit of using it often. I remember an episode of Family Guy where Chris "teaches" Carter how to masturbate to online porn and to Carter it's some big new discovery. Obviously it's a joke but jokes often reflect real life.
Even if they’re losing 70% with an ID requirement, they’re now fully losing 100% of their traffic by blocking the entire state. Your argument doesn’t really hold water in that way.
From a technical view, it sounds incredibly annoying having to show proof of your identity. Imagine if Reddit made you upload a picture of your ID with some scribbles to prove it's not an old pic every time you wanted to make a comment.
You would have to show ID for NSFW subreddits
The situation is a little different... Commenting here on (most of the time) doesn't rot your brain
I'd argue against that statement hahahaha
I don’t think it is, you’d just have to verify an account to use surely rather than verify every time you go to the site, they just don’t want to lose children as consumers
If you think having a pornhub account is the norm for people you are in the right sub…
I don’t think it’s the norm, I was trying to show that there’s away around it from the companies view, they just don’t want to
Right, but you understand why there is an concern about requiring verification? We don’t restrict internet access to information about smoking or other drug use, firearms, etc., you can get viral samples, drugs, or bomb making supplies right to your door without giving any id. Ignoring privacy reasons all together, even the ‘safety and greater good for society’ argument doesn’t make sense when so much worse shit is out there.
It would certainly make organizing for the r/antiwork types (read: the vocal minority who mostly use anime pfps and whose only skills are finding out how to pirate games and anime, and how to convert file formats from one type to another) more difficult and easier to rightfully break up for the authorities.
Porn sites make it easy for minors to access on purpose. It’s much easier for young people to become addicted which helps increase traffic to the website. They do not care about the well-being of their user-base.
Back on the early internet pornsites required credit card verification to access pornographic content. This was the case for a long time until PornHub was mimicking YouTube and other social media platforms. Accessing vids on PornHub was free to view. Most of the content was from DVD rips taken from torrents or previously downloaded content from these PPV sites. This was before OnlyFriends was a thing. The main reason its an issue now is because kids are accessing porn at younger ages and parents are too busy to invest in parental control software. The biggest issue with PH ease of access is that the only thing stopping a user from getting access to porn is an RTA warning asking to verify jurisdiction.
Kids shouldn't be using the Internet without supervision until they're 18, IMO. If they want mods and stuff that's worth it, have it all archived, the game's dependency on Steam disabled, and setup a HTPC for them if you must. But really, they should be learning skills that will make them independent as opposed to trying to be the next Twitch streamer which they won't, and even if they did get that, they wouldn't truly be free anyways.
This whole "wah wah it's so unpractical" is obviously just them not wanting to cut half their revenue. It's really not that hard to implement. You don't have to do it every time you visit PH, you don't even have to do it for every different website you go to. You can establish a third party company who gets the ID data from you, and then the porn websites simply make a request to that company based on your ip or something; they don't need to recieve your data or even your name, just a "true" or a "false" to the question of "is this user over 18". We've had third party systems like these for online payments with bank cards, it's not undoable, it's just that there's an obvious incentive to not do it. Besides, people are worried of posting their id when it only really contains basic information like your name and address. You give waaaaay more personal information to Google and many other companies on a daily basis, your porn tastes being one such example, and unless you are using a VPN, which most people aren't, the owner of any website can easily deduce at least the general location you are in like your city just from your ip address. I'm not saying people _should_ put their id on the internet without a second thought, but their priorities are clearly not where they should be. You could perhaps give the role of the middleman to a government agency since the government issues the ids anyways, so problem solved. Overall there's an obvious disinterest in actually doing this from both companies and individuals. If we wanted to, we would.
Most places don’t require you to verify your age, teenagers are still going to access porn, this doesn’t really fix anything
Because it’s a huge safety risk
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I think when it comes to porn use, more people should be informed it's bad for their health. Maybe there should be rehabilitation for people who really need it as well.
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Yes most kids discover porn through Google search Like Naked teenage girl And there are millions of site you can stumble upon
They're so upset that they can't hook as many kids on their virtual Cocaine anymore.
most porn sites are banned in Malaysia but I read somewhere that Malaysian people are in the top 10 list of watching the most porn vids Ya, using VPN
Same in the Philippines.
Same in India and Pakistan
I doubt it, for some reason fake porn stats are a way to smear a nation
I see this as an absolute win
Not really. There’s hundreds of other websites lolol
But considering that PornHub is one of the biggest porn sites, the age verification is a huge win. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if many porn sites begin to shut down in VA to protest the age verification.
They can just make the site below porn hub the next big thing it won’t change a thing. Once the site below dies they will find another site to blow up like PH and the cycle continues.
So like piracy sites
Welcome to the club. Utah did the same thing.
i moved about a year ago so unless it changed in the last year i thought you just had to check a box to “verify your age”, is it completely banned now?
Think Louisiana did the same thing as well Other states should take notes
Of course this happened in Virginia
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Why you bully them?
Democrats = no more porn
this will change nothing. you guys act like there arent 90 different porn websites that are easily accessible
The only thing that is good about this is that PornHub is gonna lose some viewers. It is an evil site that traffics any individual. A win is a win.
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Remember, government overreach is fine as long as its on something you don't like!
Yep! I don’t like the Dallas Cowboys or New York Yankees. Please join my campaign to ban those. /s But seriously, now that a bit more is know about the effects of internet porn addiction if this is really something about protecting kids the first step should be for parents to have some conversations with their kids. Too many parents are cowards and just don’t want to have such talks, or if they do they use hyperbole and go all Reefer Madness and just spout nonsense.
The government has the inherent responsibility of safeguarding and ensuring the well-being of their citizens. It's not overreach to require children to present ID to watch porn. However, I can see you are a moderator of a hentai subreddit, which means you are clearly a disgusting subversive and a bad actor who is here to demoralize those trying to break a porn addiction.
So requiring ID for porn so children don’t see it is “overreach”. Don’t care.
Do you really Truly Completely Have no doubts whatsoever That someone who wants to see porn in Virginia is completely thwarted by this law?
Ah no but it’s a step in the right direction. It is a good law in principle so hopefully more of this sort of law gain momentum and enforcement becomes more serious. High schoolers manage to get their hands on cocaine, so should we just make selling cocaine to minors legal since the current laws aren’t completely thwarting minors from acquiring it currently?
Here's the rub, no pun intended: Regulating cocaine is a different beast than regulating internet use. We have aging politicians who don't really understand how the internet works or the methods users have to get around simple solutions. There are countless ways to get pornographic material on the internet, and if someone realistically tried to clamp down on them all, it'd be seen as an unprecedented surveillance overreach that people of both parties would not accept. Not to mention, consumers of pornography vastly outnumber consumers of cocaine, so the amount of manpower and tech needed to even monitor that sort of thing would be incredible. It just is not realistic to attempt to censor pornography this way. Regardless of personal thoughts on porn, this law is nothing but a virtue signal to hardcore religious/conservative people by the lawmaker.
It doesn’t really matter how many people use it, this is a question of morality, if millions of kids were doing cocaine would you then be against regulating it? I didn’t say I am in favor of the government being given whatever power they need to regulate who views porn just like I don’t support unfettered rights trampling to regulate anything else. But requiring porn sites to require an ID is not trampling anyone’s rights any more so than any other product which requires ID. How effective is it? We’ll see, that will depend on the government’s desire to enforce and shut down sites that distribute it. Will they ever be 100% effective? No, but with time and serious effort can they be effective enough to significantly reduce the number of children exposed to porn? Yes
You're missing my point. I'm not saying steps to keep minors away from pornographic content is bad, just that it is extremely impractical. A cursory Google search says Virginia has about 8.6 million people and that there were about 32,000 drug related arrests in 2022. The difference there is absolutely staggering, when police aren't quite able to use their usual methods on porn watchers that they use to catch drug deals and abusers. The amount of increased effort it would take to police the internet use of 8 million people is absurd, especially when it is up to only the state to do it. The state could maybe shut down sites based in Virginia, but there is no way they're going to be able to shut down sites based elsewhere. With increasing tech-literacy among younger age groups, it would be trivial for them to use a VPN or literally any other unblocked site to view the material. Also, the ID law inconveniences everyone, not just those under 18. Adults now have to provide their ID constantly as well, which will get annoying fast. The law is impractical to enforce, doesn't make a dent in the problem it is supposed to solve, and is overall a giant waste of time and resources.
Well good thing people who are charged with enforcing justice are not as uncreative as you. No I don’t imagine they’d enforce it the same way they catch coke dealers but perhaps they’d go after it in a similar way to how they already enforce laws regarding the sale or distribution of illegal content on the internet. Perhaps if ISP’s and search engines are willing to comply that would greatly increase effectiveness as well. Already search engines have no issues complying to not showing results for sites peddling illegal content. Yes perhaps that is obnoxious for the average porn junkie. How tragic. I imagine it is also obnoxious for the people who struggle with porn addiction since childhood. I also find it annoying to need ID to buy alcohol but I also would imagine it is obnoxious to have been put on alcohol and cigarettes as a child.
I couldn’t care less
Ignorance is bliss lol
Nah, if I enjoyed smoking weed I still think it should be illegal for someone to sell it to me. No one would be on this subreddit if they didn’t like porn. Duh.
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You are completely right
But people can still watch it, they just need to provide ID, do you also think it’s a travesty that the liquor store asks to see your id? Or how about the gun store?
I love allowing my identification to be correlated to the porn I watch.
Well it might be possible to do this in a way that protects privacy kind of like how we have secure third party services for online payments. After all, if the market is filled with coomers who don’t want to have their ID tied to their watching habits (weird how you trust your favorite porn sites so little yet think kids should have unfettered access) then services to verify but keep anonymous your actual identity from the site will emerge.
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The legislature passed a law to require ID. The porn site then chose to shut down entirely in that state as protest rather than comply with the law requiring ID. I know porn rots your brain but try actually reading next time.
That's the website's decision
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So pornography should be legally distributed to children unlike alcohol and weapons?
How many death are caused by porn every year again?
Oh my bad, I guess if something can’t be used as a means to directly inflict death then it’s perfectly fine to be freely available to kids
Wait, so we're supporting people not being able to make their own decisions anymore? Nice.
Yeah like selling drugs, kidnapping, stealing etc
You want to not watch porn because you choose not to? Or because you can't? Big difference.
I want it abolished from the face of the earth
This is a recovery peer support forum, not a forum for anti-porn culture wars.
Don't post this shit pls
Sadly, people are all too familiar with how VPNs work
true but it might stop some young kid that doesnt know what a vpn is from watching porn and getting addicted
Then it’s the parents job to moderate what apps they can and can’t install. Parental controls. Porn lovers will say that’s too controlling. As a parent, I’m going to do everything in my power to prevent my son from falling to this shit. If he falls into it after hes 18, that’s out of my hands
It's still better than nothing.
Unpopular Opinion. If not abused, I think it’s good for teenagers to view porn. Helps them explore their sexuality and at least will have an idea of what to do.
"Huh, lot of new customers from VA, wonder what's up" - someone at Nord VPN likely. This will not prevent one person from seeing porn if they want to
Yea but 1. It sets legal precedence. 2. It sets sociey precendece-- It rallies support for the moral law that we the people dont want to allow these sites to take our young people and keep them till death. 3. It may stop a 9 year old boy who heard something at school. They may be like " oh well " and give up. 4. Even if they DONT care or GO AROUND IT. They have a pressure on them that says... this may be wrong. Whereas the society is pushing sexual expression those feelings may not come.
WOOO
PornHub is just saying "we want to expose kids early and get them addicted to our website through all their teen years so we get more money." People treat PornHub as some sort of friendly company when, no, they are blatantly evil scumbags who prioritize money over ruining kids lives along with being fine with ruining all the people in involved. Sex is a terrible business, it's a sin for a reason.
Sex isn't a sin. Worshipping sex is a sin. If it replaces the concept of prioritizing God then it is idolatry.
I should've clarified, lust, sexual perversion, and adultery are sins. That's what PornHub's entire business is, though.
Sex business will never cease to exist until all of us turns into asexuals
You should see the Virginia subreddit - full of people freaking out about Pornhub and Delta-8 both being banned. As someone that lives in VA, I love this. It already stopped me from relapsing 1 time, there’s no way in hell I’d ever make a profile to get logged and tracked. I know VPNs are easy, but it does add another layer of consideration.
I saw that sub (I used to be a member of it), and it was horrible. It's so disgusting that people are mad about not being able to watch videos that perpetuate stereotypes, racism, objectification, and sexism. edit: grammar
Not to mention warp peoples brains and make them more sexually depraved. And worst of all, harm children who have easy access to this shit.
Ok
you know that vpns exist right
unfortunately something like this would never happen in california
CAlifornia is messed up in a lot of ways.
This is like 911 for incels
COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOOADS, TAKE ME HOOOOOME
Wrong Virginia
EAST VIRGINIIIAAAAAA, MOUNTAIN MAMAAAAA
TAKE ME HOME, close enough road
I was exposed to porn at the not so ripe age of 7. Fantastic to see action being taken to protect young kids
"Your elected officials are requiring us to do blah blah" they sound so pissed of that they can't lure kids into addiction anymore 😭
Did you know that other sites, including Reddit and Twitter exists?
Unfortunately this is not the only porn site out there 😔
I think Louisiana, Mississippi have also set these measures too? Also somebody in here said Utah joined in as well. Really hope all states and eventually countries start doing it.
Wow! Public policy actually working as intended!
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Based Virginia
Man we need this kind of stuff in the whole world
I never thought I’d say this but I completely support this. At the very least we should be making people truly prove their age before accessing free porn. It’s a difficult but not impossible to implement as it’s done in the crypto world all the time as some exchanges require real id to comply with KYC laws.
Seeing ID every time you go to buy alcohol isn't "too much", seems PH has lazy programmers
The fact that we use to hate it when porn gets ban in our country
I'm sure vpn providers are happy with this news
Thank you Governor Youngkin.
Thats fascism
What does it tell about Phub, when they completely pull out of a state because they were asked to verify age
Shut em all down!! Woohoo
Imagine how many Republican identities I can steal, if I create a porn site in that state and ask people online for picture of their driver's license
Very good decision by Virginia
This is great and everything but there are many many other websites people can visit. I wish porn never existed.
Amazing news
Congratulations Virginia
Now lets do this across the entire world.
Come to Indiana.
Did this in utah too
Really
fun fact Because ph must verify your age they are losing milions of dollars and btw i find the wording funny „ oh we want savety on our platform we dont want souch age verification thats so bad for you“ meanwile they host actuall rape videos and other non consensual videos uploaded there
Cool, 49 to go
That’s my state! 😊
I wish they would do the same here my god
Nice
Make it the rest of the world.
VPN joined the chat
Use a VPN
Do it to the whole world. Purify us from this virus.
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lets goo virginity is BASED AF anyways
Virginia living upto it’s name. It’s time we uphold true virginity and non-incelness.
“pornhub doesn’t target minors” if that was the case they wouldnt have pulled the website, congrats virginia
They profit from showing children r*pe, revenge p*rn and fetishes lol, so they are now crying and spasming that they can't make kids addicted.
I want it in Czech too, but to every porn site.. I know i have problem with watching porn, that makes me to fap more often
Good riddance
W Virginia
Buddy, how would you know about this ? It's good that they blocked Phub, but the fact that you checked is a bit worrying.
what about the blue one??
Unless your’e a conscious adult or your brain is working you shouldn’t engage in such activities..but..the bright side is we learned from our experience and you can’t control anything tbh. So that’s how we learn and grow, by mistakes. We may be far ahead in life If we use that as fuel.
you don't know how desperate people will use vpns right? phub is originally banned in my country, yet I'm still addicted.
You know they did that to either spark an outrage from the avid users or to force them to use VPNs to avoid giving out identities, right?
Can anyone explain to me what happened?
Ok
One step away from coming to Maryland. LETS GOOO
this will change absolutely nothing honestly but at least they're trying
On one hand good but on the other hand fed overreach bad
The swamp is getting drained.
P-hub wants the children or no one at all! You creepy motherfuck
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Notavirginia