Why is pornography still alive and not illegal? Why doesn’t the government do about tricking women into them?

If you ask anti-porn crusaders why porn should be banned, you will usually get three answers: “My preacher says the invisible god I worship says it’s wrong,” “sex is icky yucky ick ick ick unless it happens between people I say it should happen between, in situations I say it should happen in,” and “lookit all the women who are hurt by porn, I totally care about saving women (but not respecting their autonomy, offering them paid maternity leave, or, you know, doing any of those other things that would materially improve women’s lives).”

Here’s a neat mental exercise:

And what you personally consider icky has even less bearing on what is or is not illegal. You think porn sex is icky? Fine, you do you, bruh.

When did Elon Musk fall from grace?

Making it illegal harms people, particularly women.

Making it illegal harms people, especially women.

Make a list of the countries where women are treated as second-class citizens or property.

Erin Patterson tells murder trial exotic mushrooms 'have more flavour' - BBC

Say by creating an environment where people do the thing voluntarily, et voila.

There is no legitimate reason to make it illegal.

But don’t mistake your personal opinion for Moral Truth or the law of the land. If it were, I’d have eggplants (aubergine for you Brits) banned tomorrow.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike the Moon: NASA’s Webb Telescope Warns - The Daily Galaxy

Make a list of the countries that most stringently ban porn, with the harshest penalties.

Compare your lists. Notice anything funny?

That’s not a coincidence.

Heavily shorted AI stock is rapidly climbing the Fortune 500 - TheStreet

Normal people know that what your particular preachers say has no bearing on what is or is not legal.

…criminals.

The number of women willing to do porn voluntarily is staggeringly high. Like you wouldn’t even believe.

What should you answer when someone says to you in French, "au plaisir de vous revoir"?

What your preacher says isn’t worth a wet fart through used toilet paper. Your preacher might say it’s a sin to eat pork or have sex on Sunday or cut your hair in certain ways or whatever, but that doesn’t make it the law of the land.

When you ban porn, you turn porn production into a criminal enterprise. Criminal enterprises are run by…

Criminals who won’t hesitate to traffic people, if it makes them money. The way you solve the problem is to remove the financial incentive to traffic people.

Research roundup: Ping-pong bots, the genetic key for ginger cats, and more - Ars Technica

There is no legitimate reason to make it illegal.

Pornography is still alive and not illegal for two reasons:

Look, this is simple, so I’ll type slowly: The more open, legitimate, and free porn production is, the fewer women are trafficked. Why on earth would you take the risk of trafficking people to force them to do something plenty of people are willing to do voluntarily?

Eight Centers Lions Could Sign to Replace Frank Ragnow - Sports Illustrated

Finally, “oh wow I want to protect the wimmens all the poor poor wimmens” ah HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no you heckin’ don’t.