Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people's ages
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Kansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors are adults. It would join Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied.

In Kansas, some critics questioned whether the measure would violate free speech and press rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment...

But critics of the bill, mostly Democrats, argued that the law could be interpreted broadly enough that LGBTQ+ teenagers could not access information about sexual orientation or gender identity because the legal definition of sexual conduct includes acts of “homosexuality.”

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    The porn industry is a cancer and its increasing normalization has disgusting side effects. This isn’t really going to do anything about that though.

    Honestly, introducing children to lgbt material would probably help lessen the hyper-misogyny that leads to them looking at porn reflecting that. Showing young men that there’s a whole range of how they express themselves and their feelings towards people would do wonders instead of the usual “hit the gym and clean your room” advice

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      Genuinely yes, having even the most bare minimum understanding of feminism or even queer theory makes most (mainstream) porn completely unappetizing. It’s like watching Dominion and then being served a triple patty burger.

      Teach kids feminist theory in schools and adolescent porn use would probably drop by something insane like 90%