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Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
Author : rdrd
Score : 17 points
Date : 2025-08-13 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| anthk wrote:
| This is useless as the Brit will just use VPN's/Tor or anything
| else connected to US servers where the main language interface
| will be 100% the same. This will just give free money to US
| services and probably generate a big hole in the UK economy. I
| remind you all that porn does far more money than tons of
| services. They were pioneers on online commerce with credit
| cards.
|
| People can tell otherwise, but these services are widely used by
| the population in disguise, from both women and men.
| OgsyedIE wrote:
| The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated
| with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have
| less rapes.
|
| https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601...
|
| If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts
| of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn
| and are less motivated to rape.
| heavensteeth wrote:
| I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem
| _insane_ to me.
|
| > Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers
| compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years
| before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after.
| Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.
|
| > In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a
| decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse.
| Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a
| year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than
| half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.
|
| The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an
| empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the
| legalisation of pornography _specifically_ as the cause of
| decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise?
| Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled,
| surveilled society caused men unrest?
|
| Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of
| rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between
| then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.
| cluckindan wrote:
| It seems more likely that sexual offenses were used as an
| excuse to arrest and defame political opposition and
| activists.
| derbOac wrote:
| Fair enough although that's not the only statistics they
| cite.
|
| More importantly I think they're trying to point out the
| converse of maybe what you're pointing to, which is that as
| porn availability increases, if it caused sexual assault,
| rates of the latter would go up. But it doesn't, you see the
| opposite trend time and time again.
|
| This is one of those cases where you'll never be able to do a
| RCT, so any study will be flawed in some way (even RCTs have
| their issues).
| catigula wrote:
| Major correlation/causation overreach here.
|
| Also, if 'sexual sedation' were a premise you'd propose as
| having some societal-level impact you'd start very quickly
| getting into other effects, many of which might not be
| desirable.
| jongjong wrote:
| Maybe it's for the best. I think new generations are way too
| passive. We've been trained to live our lives passively and
| vicariously... Engaging in the cheapest possible alternatives
| to various life experiences, quantity over quality.
| pk-protect-ai wrote:
| Do you suggest that there are not enough sexual assaults with
| this statement?
| jongjong wrote:
| No but more aggression and assertiveness is needed. I hope
| this won't correlate but I really think our generation will
| end up in a place worse than we can imagine if we don't
| grow a backbone. Already millennials are being coerced into
| various kinds of sexual slavery.
| dkiebd wrote:
| That's a very glib interpretation of the message, bordering
| on the malicious.
| nurettin wrote:
| Meanwhile, hetzner/digitalocean traffic increases ten fold.
| derr1 wrote:
| Just means more VPNs are being used to bypass this stupid piece
| of legislation.
| netsharc wrote:
| It's interesting that simple Javascript can be used by e.g
| PornHub to predict VPN usage by Brits: "What is the browser's
| timezone, and what is it's language?"
|
| If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says
| it's UTC+1 and en_GB...
| pk-protect-ai wrote:
| What are they going to do with this amount of freed hands now????
| Denatonium wrote:
| In other news, a massive spike in BitTorrent traffic has been
| detected in the UK. Experts are calling the rise "unprecedented".
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