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Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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[–] [email protected] 276 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

“potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.”

These warnings should be required for all social media sites every time you open any webpage or app.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or printed on every bible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Bible should have a schizophrenia warning on it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (8 children)

While they're at it they could add "potential to cause spontaneous human combustion" or "potentially damaging to time-space continuum." Potentially. I'm no porn fan, but my understanding is the evidence on the addictiveness claims is super weak.

The causal arrow between porn and the brain development thing could easily go either way. It's hard to tell.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Surely porn is known to California to cause cancer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It must, that label is on everything, so it effectively means nothing. This exchange happened between my wife and I a couple months ago

'oh honey look..this pink Himalayan salt, which expires in...2 weeks?!? is known to the state of cancer to cause California. Ah, science. What a time to be alive'

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The amount of lead in Himalayan salt (it's mined from mountains in Pakistan) can be above allowed limits, and especially can cause developmental issues in children. Europe has same or possibly more stringent lead expectations.

I guess the two takes could be "ugh California has warnings on everything so it's meaningless" or "wow, FDA really doesn't give a fuck and allows all this stuff to go unchecked"

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Please don't the 17 attempts for me to surrender my cookies are already exhausting my willingness to use the web.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This sounds like it's going to further erode people's trust in the health systems and the advice of doctors.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago

I'm sure that's a side effect that Texas is happy with.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

Who was out there discrediting doctors during the pandemic? The exact same people pushing for those kinds of laws and making those bogus health claims.

It's always projection with the right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The people that are already not following doctors orders are not going to do it regardless

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you’re a resident of Texas, please be aware that watching porn is bad for you, jacking off will make you blind and that you’re a filthy person for coming here. If you’re from the rest of the world, why are you reading this instead of watching porn?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here I am, unzipped, and a little bruised, but standing at attention, and you're kink-shaming me?

Lucky me - that's my fetish too! Who needs porn!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Masturbation makes hair grow on the palms of your hands - it's science people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you should not point it towards your eyes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Don't kink shame me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Dad I'm over here

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"...is known to the state of Texas to cause..."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Well... porn probably causes less abortions so they should be actively encouraging it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can't expect internal consistency among conservatives. If stopping abortions was a top priority, they wouldn't be so anti-gay. It's all about controlling outgroups.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Oh, I know. I just like calling them on the shit.

Probably get a "gods will" reply or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I don't think repressed gay people have that many abortions, do they?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

No no, you see, porn is bad because it keeps men from focusing on snaring a woman and making sure she fulfills her obligation to produce worker bees for God and capitalists. Also, sex is bad, unless you're a guy. If you're a women, sucks to suck I guess, get married and make babies.

  • Texas religious leaders, probably
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There’s two schools of thought about this. One is that porn extinguishes sexual desire and Poe replaces sex, and the other that it only feeds the desire until people actually go out and have more sex. There’s competing studies on the topic.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I love how republican law makers who want small government and non governmental interference and stop interfering the second it's something they are against.

Really shows their true colors. They don't give a shit about small government, they LOVE government interference. They just don't want you to stop them using slavery, they just don't want you to know about practices in slaughter houses, they just want to be able to pollute every part of the world except where they live and they just want to be able to tell you how to live your life.

Is that so much to ask?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

The smallest form of government is a dictatorship.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because I didn't see it written in the comments yet, here is the warning:

"The sites display unproven claims that porn impairs ‘human brain development’ and ‘increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.’"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

cuz that's not retarded.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand how Texas expects to enforce such a law, unless these companies have physical offices in the state.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For Texas, possibly by having vigilantes kidnap them from other states (or in the case of Aylo (PornHub), across international borders) with reward money attached. I wouldn't be surprised at this point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

This reminds me of BANNED IN CHINA!!! The warning label is how you know your porn is extra. Rated XXX+XX!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Shit state gonna shit state. What an embarrassment

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The move comes after a US appeals court temporarily overturned an order blocking a Texas law that required porn sites to verify users’ ages and display government health warnings.

Though they don’t require age verification, every Vixen Media Group site — which includes Deeper, Blacked, and Vixen — now displays factually debatable disclaimers warning that porn is “potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.” The warnings appear to users within the state of Texas.

It’s not clear how long the disclaimers have been online, but they appear to be a reaction to Texas’ HB 1181, which was initially scheduled to go into effect on September 1st but has been hotly contested in court.

HB 1181 requires adult sites to display disclaimers and verify users’ ages with government-issued identification.

However, a district judge agreed to block it in late August after a group of adult entertainment activists and companies — which included Pornhub, Brazzers, and the Free Speech Coalition — filed a complaint arguing it was unconstitutional.

The lawsuit criticized the law’s required health warning, calling it a “mix of falsehoods, discredited pseudo-science, and baseless accusations” and “a classic example of the state mandating an orthodox viewpoint on a controversial issue.” District Judge David Alan Ezra agreed, rejecting both the age verification rule and the health disclaimer.


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