There's the problem right there
The adult entertainment site GameLink has released the best selling porn titles in North Carolina, which are My TS Teacher, Shemale Shenanigans, and Joey Silvera'a Trans-Visions 6.
We have seen significant growth in the viewing of TS movies in North Carolina since 2012. Viewing TS movies has increased 64.3 percent [for North Carolina]; our average state increase during this time is 47 percent.
--Jeff Dillon, Vice President of eLine, GameLink's parent company
It also seems worth mentioning that, according to GameLink's numbers, Utah downloads the most incest related titles.
Many trans men took to twitter and Facebook to protest the law, arguing that people who look like them are the last people NC lawmakers want in a women's restroom. But it would appear that the average North Carolinian would be more familiar with the struggle of the trans women in Italian Transsexual Sausage Fest 5-Pack, another popular title on GameLink.
--Bethy Squires, Broadly
The site also ranks Mississippi sixth in its viewing of gay porn, but number one in hypocrisy. The top five movies watched in Mississippi on GameLink over the last 90 days are Full Service Transsexuals, Fathers and Sons Number 3, Bareback Sex, Daddy and Me, and ever-popular Joey Silvera's Trans-Visions 6.
Our user data show Mississippi has been consuming gay and transsexual pornography at a high rate in comparison to the rest of the country. It's unfortunate to see that their diverse viewing habits do not translate into an open-minded society.
--Dillon
One can view the high consumption of gay porn in Mississippi and trans porn in North Carolina as hypocritical, but an argument also could be made that the hypersexualization of trans bodies directly correlates with perceiving them as a threat. A sexy, sexy threat. Why, any minute now we could be ravished by a dashing trans man named Slaven with salt and pepper hair, and a smile like a secret, and the secret is that he loves you.
Governor McCrory signed an executive order on April 12, preventing state employees from being fired for being gay or trans, while keeping the most controversial bathroom-related parts of the bill. In a video, he said that North Carolina is "a state that strives to allow our people and business to as independent as possible, without overreaching government regulations." He neglected to mention whether his newfound softening on the issue was because of backlash from entities like the ACLU and Paypal, or the humanizing effect of films like My Girlfriend's Cock 17.
--Squires
Personally, I don't have anything to say against the porn industry. People have to make a living somehow...and it is no doubt safer work than prostitution or selling drugs. But the thing is that people who watch that stuff get the wrong image of who trans women are: well hung androgynes who want to use those tools whenever there is an opportunity. I have long had the question in my head about whether or not any-trans bigots only know us through viewing transgender porn.
It appears I may not have been far off.
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I think you are probably right. Lesbian porn another example
You mean there are people who think porn is reality?
You mean people actually believe this stuff is real??!!??
My Cat, how horribly have we failed to teach our children critical thinking skills!!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Reality Check !
I think the real problem is that thinking about how you know something is not part of the curriculum. The focus is teaching students to obtain knowledge indiscriminately, without reflection and understanding.
From a young age my dad taught me how to think about thinking. He did that by presenting me with problems in real world situations. Later, in grade school, I worked out that most of my peers were not taught how to interact with the real world and extract useful information.
As a result too many people rely on secondary (mostly via the Internet) sources for all kinds of information. As a teacher I interpreted my task: To teach young adults to teach themselves, to encourage them to think about learning rather than how to regurgitate facts and canned procedures.
This applies in every facet of your life. I remember the first time I was shown the proverbial topless photograph on the equally proverbial playground. My less than excited response excluded me from that group (probably all for the good). Don't get me wrong: I am a straight male, and I love the ladies, it's just that for a variety of reasons I was a bit more mentally mature than my classmates.
My parents were of the carny crowd. Okay, okay: my dad was a grifter and my mom was an unwitting shill. Whatever! The point is I lived around people: I had no need for labels, because people are people and people present with all sorts of variations. I only learned about labeling people is school, fortunately I was always a very poor student. To this day I get a bit uncomfortable when the conversation turns to the subject of who is what and how do we communicate this to the rest of us.
Living a life fully confronting (and embracing) ambiguity, and variety prepares one to "think outside the box" and to "Don't sweat the small stuff." as we used to say back in the olden days.
There is no doubt that porn is the #1 reason any knowledge ...
of trans people exist nearly at all I'd say.
I also find the porn downloads and views by category by state highly amusing.
A lot of those red Christian states are going straight to hell I tell ya.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU