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Should we shut the hypothetical street corner porn booth


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No sex kiosk is alluded to. As things stand, the poll title is not mine but an edit. It is misleading and divorced from the poll OP (which is effectively hidden). I am hoping that this will be corrected soon.

Based on the votes here - this imaginary scenario is approved by 9 votes 1. The imaginary scenario of said establishment being shut down, based on the votes here, is not occurring.

As a poster alluded to - a place where youngsters can go to get porn isn't that far from some such folk's experience.

And the question that seems to get ignored so often in so many other threads : "so therefore ... " ?

You have an answer from the specific collective you asked. I'm guessing it's not the one you wanted, since it takes a 'gotcha' bullet out of your imagined rhetorical gun, but yet you still have one.

Now what?
 
I, um. Would be more upset by kiosks that showed, for example, Porky's or Sixteen Candles, than just plain happy vanilla porn TBH. Like, they are comedies and not instruction manuals the same way porn is porn and not an instruction manual, but they are gross in the same way gross porn is gross.
So you're against high-grossing movies?
 
And the question that seems to get ignored so often in so many other threads : "so therefore ... " ?

You have an answer from the specific collective you asked. I'm guessing it's not the one you wanted, since it takes a 'gotcha' bullet out of your imagined rhetorical gun, but yet you still have one.

Now what?
That the poll be made visible again and continues to garner votes would be good. The poll speaks for itself.
 
Thank you for the reply.

I suggest that if you examine your reasons for your answer, you will better understand the reasons for the answers you're getting in the poll.

The way you phrased your poll question, "should we shut it down?" makes it sound like there's some sterile automatic process that accomplishes that. Like, once your poll crosses some threshold with more than 50% agreement, someone pulls a lever somewhere and all the porn kiosks magically disappear. No one challenges the order in court on constitutional grounds, no one tries to disguise their kiosk as something else to stay in business, no one moves their entrance ten meters farther away from the corner (since the measure only applies to corner kiosks) or modifies their kiosk into a stall, pergola, or belvedere, and no one puts tiny pieces of opaque tape over the genitalia of their kiosk's content and claim that makes it no longer porn. No authority figure gets frustrated by all that obstruction and ends up overreaching, closing bookstores and motels and art galleries and homeless shelters because they kind of resemble the banned kiosks in various ways. No innocent librarians get held in prison for two weeks until the charges are dropped. No parents get their kids taken by protective services because a copy of The Joy of Sex is found in their corner garden shed where a kid might have come upon it.

In the real world, all those consequences and many more, expected and unexpected, happen. In the real world, declaring "shut it down!" is very similar to calling in the barbarian horde and hoping they don't do too much collateral damage.
This has all been addressed before. The problems you outline at one end of the continuum are the same, in obverse, at the other.

No, calling for it to be shut down is not necessarily akin to calling in the barbarian horde. If enough people say 'yea' (shut it down) - indeed, if a majority say 'yea' - then that is likely to be reflected legislatively (not necessarily, but perhaps likely).

You voted to allow the continuation of the scenario described in #6,682 - that is a vote for the hypothetical continuation of the facilitation of kids seeing porn.

Are you going to justify that?
 
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All this amounts to is attempting to frame internet port as if they were brick and mortar stores.

If you don't want brick and mortar porn shops that kids can sneak into on every street corner, why is it OK on the internet where kids can sneak onto the sites?

My answer is, there were always brick and mortar shops that sold porn. The comic book shop I went to as a kid was one. Yes, we could occasionally sneak a peek. Mostly, it was good for giggles. As was finding someone's dad's stash of magazines. From what I've seen, internet porn is about the same with regard to kids. There are a few who might be obsessed with it, but that's most likely a symptom of other problems. Nothing new.

Oh, and just like the people who thought Loony Tunes was too violent, you underestimate kids.
All addressed before. In porn, actual sex is taking place; in films and tv, including Looney Tunes, no actual violence is taking place (and when it's glorified we're uncomftoable).

The street corner book shops you reference don't make porn available to kids.
 

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