This "epidemic" will cost you $20

[Unspecified]

http://health.usnews.com/wellness/h...rn-tax-would-fight-human-trafficking-epidemic

If passed, consumers would have to pay a single $20 tax to access pornography on any new computer or phone. States like South Carolina, Georgia and Texas are looking into variants of the bill, while North Dakota and Wyoming, for instance, have squashed it.

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[John Price]

 

[Balls Mahoney]

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!

 

[tarheelhockey]

"Let's make the least popular law of all time"

 

[CalderSchmalder]

"What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain," Kathleen Winn of the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network told 3TV/CBS 5. "Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking."

 

[tarheelhockey]

"What we know about pornography is that it's addictive. It actually affects the brain," Kathleen Winn of the Arizona Anti-Trafficking Network told 3TV/CBS 5. "Like any drug, like an addiction, you need more and more and more of it to get the same reaction from it as the first time you saw it. So yes, I absolutely believe pornography is contributing to the growing criminal enterprise of sex trafficking."

I mean, none of that seems wrong. It is addictive, and it very likely does contribute to the trafficking problem.

 

[Deleted member 274563]

I mean, none of that seems wrong. It is addictive, and it very likely does contribute to the trafficking problem.

 

[jw2]

I guess I will have to download those kodi repos.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I definitely agree watching porn is bad for you mentally, but I dont know about sex trafficking. Care to explain that?

 

[Mantis]

You watch the weirdest **** too Mikey

 

[HisIceness]

I could have sworn Alabama or Mississippi had some kind of "anti-porn" law already in place, or at least tried to pass one, I remember hearing about it. Supposedly whichever state it happened to be, was ranked in the top 5 for most downloaded adult content, and lawmakers wanted to "strengthen the morals" of their states residents.

Southern politicians do things sometimes that make me say "What the ****?"

 

[Whiplash27]

$20 would just weed out some people who never buy porn. People who do will gladly pay that $20. You have guys out there who will drop $2K in a day on one of those cam sites, $20 is nothing to them. IMO, all it accomplishes is that it acts as a "porn tax" especially since the vast majority of people don't pay for porn. Let's say that 1/3 of the people in a state pay for this tax, a state like Texas would make $183M.

 

[RandV]

I definitely agree watching porn is bad for you mentally, but I dont know about sex trafficking. Care to explain that?

I have no idea but I guess it depends on how much money you can make off porn. Strip clubs and prostitution require a lot of women but can make a lot of money, so ******* criminal elements step in and you have sex trafficking. Porn can be had for free and a single video can be seen by millions of people, so I have a hard time seeing the same opportunity here for criminals.

Unless there are some really obscure and demeaning fetishes out there that people will pay big bucks to see, but that's more 'dark net' stuff and this bill seems more targeted to the cheap mass consumption kind.

 

[izzy]

hahah

 

[Super Cake]

You can take my children (if i had any), but please don't take away my porn.

 

[syz]

"Watching porn is bad for you" is some Aristotelian virtue ethics-tier ******** if I've ever heard it. May as well charge me $20 every time the radio station I'm listening to plays a Zeppelin song, while you're at it.

 

[Lord Helix]

"Watching porn is bad for you" is some Aristotelian virtue ethics-tier ******** if I've ever heard it. May as well charge me $20 every time the radio station I'm listening to plays a Zeppelin song, while you're at it.

Or look at a painting or sculpture.

And if we have to go there, pictures of kittens...

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I could have sworn Alabama or Mississippi had some kind of "anti-porn" law already in place, or at least tried to pass one, I remember hearing about it. Supposedly whichever state it happened to be, was ranked in the top 5 for most downloaded adult content, and lawmakers wanted to "strengthen the morals" of their states residents.

Southern politicians do things sometimes that make me say "What the ****?"

Some of the laws that are already in place are even better

For instance, oral sex is illegal in 18 states. Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C. consider people who give or receive oral sex to be criminals. In Georgia, those convicted of oral sex can be charged with no less than one year and no more than 20 years imprisonment.

As someone who has lived in two of those states, I guess I am a criminal. And beyond that, a multiple time offender.

Come at me legal system

 

[beowulf]

I definitely agree watching porn is bad for you mentally, but I dont know about sex trafficking. Care to explain that?

Like most things, watching EXCESSIVE amounts is believe to be considered bad but watching a little porn, especially as a couple, is not bad.

 

[John Price]

Net neutrality

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Like most things, watching EXCESSIVE amounts is believe to be considered bad but watching a little porn, especially as a couple, is not bad.

It is a physical release, and actually detrimental to your body to not... relieve yourself from time to time. And that is over and above how good and happy it makes you feel.

crae crae ppl being crae crae w/ this nonsense

 

[Unspecified]

Like most things, watching EXCESSIVE amounts is believe to be considered bad but watching a little porn, especially as a couple, is not bad.

Like Midgets?

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

what exactly are the long term physical and mental maladies of watching "excessive" amounts of porn?

like other than not going outside and getting any sunlight

 

[beowulf]

Like Midgets?

there is a difference in "watching a little porn" and "watching little people porn". You figure it out.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

there is a difference in "watching a little porn" and "watching little people porn". You figure it out.

penis size?