Will Project 2025 Actually Kill Porn? Here Are My Thoughts

With the Republican party winning not only the U.S. presidency, but also control of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court, they are now free to push through pretty much any law they want without any resistance.

One set of laws that may be considered are outlined in a 900 page document called Project 2025, which some people affiliated with Trump’s campaign now admit is the agenda they’re looking to push.

One of the concerning ideas? Well, let me just quote it. After stating that that pornography is tied to transgender ideology and sexualization of children, it goes on to say, quote:

“It has no claim to First amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as sex offenders.”

Pretty extreme, right? According to them, not only should porn be outlawed, but I should be thrown in prison for making it.

Unfortunately, this would not just affect Americans, but both sex workers and enjoyers of porn all around the world. But what are the chances something like this actually passes and becomes reality?

In this article, I’ll share my thoughts. I am by no means a political expert, or even that political of a person, but here’s what I think about it.

Porn Will Probably Be Safe, But Expect Changes

Personally, I don’t feel like it’s realistic for them to outright ban pornography. However, that doesn’t mean that laws won’t get passed that make it harder to access – as we are already seeing in a bunch of U.S. states.

Porn is simply too big to stop, even if the government wanted to. Without blocking off and censoring the entire internet similarly to China’s Great Firewall, and then criminalizing usage of VPNs, there is simply no way you’ll be able to keep people from watching porn.

Hell, even with the internet completely restricted, people would start sharing it through USB sticks if they had to. Porn has always driven technology forward, and people like it too much to let the government get away with this.

4% of websites on the internet are pornographic, and 20% of searches made on mobile devices are porn related. Pornhub is the 16th largest website in the world and even if we just look at the largest say, 10 free porn sites, they are visited over 10 billion times a month.

Porn is also an enormous industry, estimated to be between 15 and $97 billion annually. This is greater than the combined revenue of not only the NFL – the largest sports league in America, but also the NBA and Major League Baseball. That is a lot of tax revenue that the government would be missing out on, especially since America is the biggest spender on porn, and so many porn companies are based in the U.S.

Perhaps the biggest reason that I don’t see it going away however, is that people want porn. And with the exception of extreme religious fanatics, this sentiment is pretty universal. Heck, even the people in government enjoy porn too, and probably don’t want to see it go away.

Because porn is enjoyed by almost everyone, it would be very unpopular to see it outlawed completely. And generally speaking, governments don’t want to do things that upset everyone at the same time, without any real benefit. People may not notice if certain rights are casually eroded away in the background, but they’ll certainly notice if they were able to enjoy a good wank 4 years ago, but aren’t allowed to anymore.

In a country that prides itself on being free to make your own choices, I simply see this being too unpopular to get away with.

How This Will Affect Both You And Me

Although I am hopeful for porn’s future, I certainly expect things to get more difficult – especially for those living in very conservative states.

Rather than a federal ban on porn, what’s far more likely is that laws will continue getting enacted that either makes porn more difficult to access, or makes porn companies more difficult to operate.

One such example is the age-verification laws that have already passed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

Because the proposed verification system is not realistically feasible, Pornhub has already ceased services in the states where the laws have already rolled out, cutting residents off from large amounts of pornography that is only available on their website.

But you have to wonder – how many sites will be affected? What about websites like Reddit, where porn is only a part of it? Will they require age verification, or will they simply delete all porn subreddits from their platform?

It’s concerning to think about.

Additionally, since small creators like me build awareness and get a lot of our customers from these sites, these laws are already impacting our ability to maintain or grow our businesses. For many creators, the rollout of more laws like these may be what ultimately forces them to quit.

Personally, I feel like big porn companies are the safest from these changes, and they know it. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they have lobbied – or at least made visitors aware about Project 2025 prior to the election? If I was a big porn site and thought my entire company was at risk, I’d have plastered ads about it all everywhere. We thought the presidential race was tight, and Big Porno is certainly prominent enough to have affected the election in some small way. Even if they might not have changed the result.

Again, I do not think it is feasible to block free porn from the internet. It can be hosted on offshore servers, by offshore companies, and there’s nothing the government can do about it without playing whack-a-mole and enacting some sort of firewall, effectively censoring the internet.

What may happen is that it will simply become more inconvenient to access, your selection may be lower, and there will be less mega-sites like Pornhub and more fragmentation. Big paid studios may also benefit because of this, while smaller independent creators like myself have less platforms to market ourselves on.

Conclusion

The ideas proposed by Project 2025 are incredibly scary – and in fact, the proposals on porn are some of the ones I’m concerned about the least.

While I do not think that it’s feasible to outlaw pornography entirely, that doesn’t mean that there still isn’t a lot that can be done to make our lives harder. And considering the plan is supported by so many right-wing organizations – who have already passed other proposals during Trump’s first term, I’m a little scared for the future.

That being said, I will keep pushing on as if nothing will happen.

If I do end up getting shut down and thrown in prison, well, I hope my work was able to bring you some enjoyment in the meantime!

If you want to support me, consider signing up to my Patreon – I promise to use the donation to help produce the best stuff I can, rather than saving it for my legal fund. 😉

Otherwise, thanks for reading, and have a nice, good orgasm for me before the government decides you’re not allowed to.

~ Lexi