North Carolina Politicians Just Screwed Its Residents Out Of Porn
Equality through pornography, people.
If you're a pornography fan in the state of North Carolina, you're fucked, so to speak.
Even thought North Carolina may have been First in Flight, they might not be First to Orgasm. As of Monday, April 11 at 12:30 pm, pornography website XHamster has officially blocked all IP addresses from North Carolina from accessing their website, which boasts 315 million monthly visitors.
The site has blocked users from the Tarheel State as a way of protesting House Bill 2, a law that was passed in the state on March 23 as a way of preventing the protection of LGBTQ-identifying people all over the state. XHamster, which has a large user base interested in gay and transgender pornography, decided to take a stand—both a moral and sensical business one—by denying everyone in the state access to their troves of dirty videos and pictures. Maybe that'll get through to the state.
According to the Huffington Post, the XHamster boycott is essentially a massive pornography blackout.
"Users with a North Carolina IP address are just seeing a black screen on their computer—no porn," the Huffington Post reported. It's a very bold political move. But that's what the state's officials get for being haters. Porn is a privilege, not a right, and it can be taken away if you're not open and accepting of others.
XHamster spokesman Mike Kulich seems to believe the NC Bill is at odds with the true beliefs of the state's residents.
In a statement to the Huffinton Post, Kulich said, "Back in March, we had 400,000 hits for the term Transsexual from North Carolina alone" and that users of the site in NC also "searched 'Gay' 319,907 times." The population of North Carolina is 9.94 million people, which means that as many as 13.8% of the population is interested in gay and trans-related pornography.
Though of course this percentage of the population interested in gay and trans-related pornography is likely much less, we're talking about only one of thousands and thousands of different porn sites on the Internet. That makes the number considerably more significant.
XHamster joins a growing line of others who've boycotted the state for its anti-LGBTQ law.
Recently, Bruce Springsteen refused to play a concert in the state as a way to boycott the Bill. People are getting fed up with the regressive government passing backwards, discrimination-based laws and masquerading them as "conservative."
Kulich and XHamster are clearly as distressed as Springsteen about the whole affair. "We have spent the last 50 years fighting for equality for everyone and these laws are discriminatory which XHamster.com does not tolerate," Kulich said to HuffPo. "Judging by the stats of what you North Carolinians watch, we feel this punishment is a severe one. We will not standby and pump revenue into a system that promotes this type of garbage. We respect all sexualities and embrace them."
Who would've thought the porn people would be more articulate and socially responsible than the elected officials?