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SARose

(244 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 11:14 AM Mar 24

Porn sites are banning Texas.

Here's what Texans are Googling in response

If the people around you seem a little more tense, here's why.

By Warren Brown
March 23, 2024

I'm calling it now — this is going to be the year of cold showers in Texas. Pornhub may have been the first, or at least the most high profile, adult website to ban Texas users but others are following suit.

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But one thing the whole debacle has provided a reminder of is just how horny the Lone Star State is. The amount of search traffic related to these sites going incognito and for virtual private network (VPN) services to circumvent the bans has been awe inspiring.

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One of the top searches for that time period — up 3,500% — was "how to watch porn in Texas?" Lubbock scored highest and the East Texas region of Tyler-Longview and Lufkin Nacogdoches searched for the term second most. Corpus Christ came third, followed by the region encompassing Waco, Temple, and Bryan at No. 4. The top five was rounded out by Austin and San Antonio finished No. 7.

The top search term for VPNs in Texas was "free VPN." The search traffic for this is a close race near the top, but Austin ranked No. 1, followed by Waco, Temple, and Bryan at No. 2; Lubbock at No. 3; DFW at No. 4; and Wichita Falls and Lawton, Oklahoma, at No. 5. San Antonio fell to No. 8 for this search.

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Let me see excluding Austin, San Antonio and maybe Corpus, all the remaining cities are ruby red.

Don’t mess with Texas. 🤪😂

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Porn sites are banning Texas. (Original Post) SARose Mar 24 OP
Too funny. Watch for a mass of horny refugees if they can't get around the ban. So dumb! dutch777 Mar 24 #1
Ha SARose Mar 24 #2
Pornhub already banned Arkansas Diraven Mar 24 #3
Houston Mollyann Mar 24 #4
Of course Houston is blue SARose Mar 24 #6
DFW, at least Dallas and Tarrant counties, markodochartaigh Mar 24 #5
You are missing the point SARose Mar 24 #7
you are correct. prodigitalson Mar 28 #8

Diraven

(520 posts)
3. Pornhub already banned Arkansas
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 12:08 PM
Mar 24

If I go to the site here there's just a video of a woman telling us about why they banned Arkansas.

SARose

(244 posts)
6. Of course Houston is blue
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 02:50 PM
Mar 24

Houston was not mentioned in the article as one of the top 5 cities in Texas with the most searches for accessing porn sites or VPNs.

markodochartaigh

(1,138 posts)
5. DFW, at least Dallas and Tarrant counties,
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 02:47 PM
Mar 24

is reliably Democratic. More people voted for President Biden in those two counties than in the states of Hawaii, Delaware, and Rhode Island put together.

SARose

(244 posts)
7. You are missing the point
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 02:53 PM
Mar 24

This article is about the top 5 cities in Texas googling for information about accessing porn sites. The article does not mention Dallas and Tarrant counties.

On edit I missed the DFW reference. Sorry!

prodigitalson

(2,423 posts)
8. you are correct.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 05:20 PM
Mar 28

"Lubbock scored highest and the East Texas region of Tyler-Longview and Lufkin Nacogdoches searched for the term second most"

those are some of the most conservative and sexually repressed places outside of the middle east

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