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In reply to the discussion: Over 2.1 mil. People Sign Petition to Close Down a Popular Porn Site! [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)simply allows the problems to continue.
Sex work, including porn, simply will not stop. It just won't. So, regulate it and tax it. Other countries have taken this route. You are free to still consider it all disgusting and immoral, but that would not be the law of the land.
Oh, there's also that 1st Amendment thing-- Reno v. ACLU (that's Janet Reno, not the city) threw out the part of the Communications Decency Act that made internet porn illegal. Really nasty stuff and kiddie porn is still illegal, but you can't just shut down porn sites for being porn sites. This means to be shut down Pornhub would have to know about and approve of said illegal acts. Or at least spend years in court arguing about it.
(Believe it or not, our favorite RBG joined Scalia and most of the rest in concurring. Only Thomas and Rehnquist dissented. Scalia and RBG concurred on allowing internet porn!)
Anyway, I agree it may be a little nuts, but I cannot hire a woman of the streets for sex, or get some in a massage parlor front, but if I offer, not cash for sex, but cash to be in a movie in which we have sex, it is quite legal.
Go figure.