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Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I get wanting to keep porn away from children, but on the flipside I don't trust governments with a history of criminalizing homosexuality with my porn history. Looking up, it seems that these states even kept laws against sodomy in their books.

[–] Bakachu@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I had to look this up, and this is so nuts, but there are currently 12 states that stilll have sodomy laws as of late 2023: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

I think a lot of people might not realize that sodomy is often legally defined as anything that is not PIV intercourse. So most foreplay and obviously any sex practiced by homosexual couples. I absolutely don't get why there isn't a stronger push to get rid of this and other dumb laws against offenses that are widely committed and/or are hard to enforce.

Well I guess this one kind of makes sense in this current state of political turmoil.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because they’re all federally illegal (until they aren’t) by Lawrence v. Texas. And of those 12, 2 definitely would overturn if Thomas has his way (Lawrence was one of the decisions he said he wants reviewed) and 2 are iffy. Texas would gladly enforce anti sodomy laws today if they could.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As someone trapped in this shithole of a state, can confirm that Texas would be going after people with this law.

[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I heard Texas has a ballot initiative to change the state's name to Republic of Gilead

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