Written by Michael Thervil
Pornstar Kira Nior in official Pornhub apparel
When it comes to online porn, it seems that 8 out of 10 people either watch it or absolutely love it. And in America, with 28,258 people watching pornography at any given time and with $3,075.64 being spent on porn every second; it's safe to say the porn industry is more alive than ever. But there’s one state in the union that is seeking to challenge the porn industry head on, in what most say is futile and doomed to fail from the start; and that state is Texas. Currently, Texas has developed and is enforcing an age-verification law on their books. To date, Texas is accusing digital porn distributors of violating their age-verification laws. Texas is alleging that both Chaurbate and XHamster are violating House Bill 1181. HB 1181 is a Texas legislative House Bill that requires adequate age verification measures to stop minors from accessing explicit and in this case pornographic material in an effort to request the viewer's age before they can access pornographic material.
In Texas we were able to access xvideos.com
Many people in Texas, around the country, and pornographic distributors are calling bullshit on the Texas Law. Quite frankly, based upon the responses we are seeing, this is where Texas will, is, and currently will ultimately lose their legal battle. Consequently, Texas is doomed to fail. What the State of Texas is failing to understand is that the digital world cannot be regulated to the same degree as the physical world. Digital communication devices such as Virtual Private Networks or “VPN’s” and downloadable Bit Torrents are just a couple of ways in which people can bypass the Texas state law and watch porn regardless of the viewer's age. In fact, since Texas banned several pornography sites as of March 15th this year, a 234% increase in Texas consumers utilizing VPN’s as a way to satisfy their porn consumption needs.
It appears that Texas is trying its best to: police “the unpoliceable”. What we mean by this is that there are just some things that law-enforcement and Texas politicians simply can’t legislate, and in this case it's porn consumption and morality. People who like to make and watch pornography will continue to do so, whether their local or federal government wants them to or not. When it comes to the consumption of porn by minors; the average viewing age is 12 years old. The one thing that politicians and the rest of America is going to have to embrace is that children and teens are changing and so are their attitudes towards pornography; and if the adults fail to go through this transitory time with them, they will continue to become more and more irrelevant in a society that is overly saturated with not only pornography, but the over-sexualization of people in general.
In Texas we were able to access xnxx.com
Although social porn sites such as Pornhub, Chaurbate, and XHamster are banned from the general public in Texas, there are still porn distribution sites such as X-Videos, that are still available for Texas residents to indulge in. There is yet another thing that needs to be said when it comes to Texas mandating its citizens that consume porn when it comes to having their age verified; and that is there is no way any digital company of any kind will be able to absolutely verify the age of anyone - unless the united states is willing to rewrite the rules of the internet as we know it. We all know that embarking on measures like that will take an insurmountable amount of both private and federal dollars to do. With that being said, we all know that they’re not going to “reinvent the internet” for something like this.
Both the consumers of pornography and the leaders within the pornography industry are calling for Texas to keep its hands off its digital content. This is something that has caused digital porn distributors like Pornhub to leave the Texas market as they can be slapped with fines that amount to $10,000 per day. At this point, it can be said that Texans are literally one stroke away from being fed up with senseless laws like HB1181 (pun intended).
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