This’ll show ’em.
Effective 12:30 a.m. on Monday, April 11, the adult film site XHampster began refusing service to anyone with a North Carolina IP address. Now, instead of porn, North Carolinians seeking to get their rocks off at XHampster are confronted with a link to a petition demanding the repeal of the state’s controversial anti-LGBTQ HB2 law.
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Mike Kulich, spokesman for XHampster, said the website believes in equality for all.
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“We have spent the last 50 years fighting for equality for everyone and these laws are discriminatory which XHamster does not tolerate,” he said in a statement to The Huffington Post. “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.”
Kulich added that the company’s statistics indicate that, despite their narrow-minded politics, North Carolinians are pretty open-minded when it comes to their porn.
“Back in March, we had 400,000 hits for the term ‘Transsexual’ from North Carolina alone,” he said. “People from that state searched ‘Gay’ 319,907 times.”
XHamster joins a growing list of companies–including PayPal, Apple, Google and the NBA, among many others–and entertainers like Bruce Springsteen who are refusing to do business in the Tar Heel State.
Kulich says he believes denying people porn may be the ticket to ending LGBTQ discrimination in North Carolina altogether.
“I think that porn has the power to do what Bruce Springsteen can’t,” he says.
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Ron Freake
And a riot begins!
John Kuehnle
I wonder which site?, I likely never heard of it anyway
James Rumsey
it says in the preview 2 sentences
LI Yonk
I think mostly all.
Micheal Hardage
Loretta Lewis Kinson
Loretta Lewis Kinson
Now things will change, I bet! ð???
Matthew Issac
John Kuehnle XHamster, it says it clearly if you read the article
AJ Beu
Wait. You mean you’re supposed to read an article before commenting? Whoa.
Daniel Long
AJ Beu No – it says so in the caption.
Brian
So a porn site which features women prostituting themselves to men, getting beaten and spat upon, and being called “sluts” and “bitches” is somehow on the side of gay rights? Puh-lease, I can do without it. X-hamster will do enormous harm to the gay rights cause.
Go away, X-hamster. You’re not wanted by the gay community. Take your sleaze and misogyny elsewhere.
Bryan Beard
Hit me where it hurts (giggle.)
Robert Barber
Thatll hit them where they live
Kevin Murray
LMAO!
John P Farinhas
all porn sites should just show gay porn!
o.codone
Oh yeah girls, the state of North Carolina cannot live without xhamster and Bruce Springsteen. Actually it sounds like these boycotts are improving the state. I should move there.
Noel Hoklin
This is BIG!!!! Big, hard, and pulsating!
Brian
Don’t forget that porn is homophobic towards males. Why? Because it has a bisexual double standard. What is the bisexual double standard? Let me explain.
In your standard porn shoot, the female participants are expected to undertake both heterosexual and homosexual activity. In contrast, the male participants are expected to undertake only heterosexual activity. These rules are strictly enforced. In fact, they are 100% enforced.
Now, why should I care about this? Because it distorts human sexuality. It is marketed as straight sex when it’s actually about the prostitution of female sexuality.
So let’s tell X-hamster to take a hike. We need its support like we need a boil on our rears.
Timothy Rollings
I guess Kleenex probably won’t be needed anymore too….
LI Yonk
They should’nt!
Bob LaBlah
@o.codone: I couldn’t agree more. I guess myvidster.com will be next.
GayEGO
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! What a superb way to smack ’em back for their discrimination against LGBTs.
Leigh Brash
awwww now what are those republicans going to do. all their entertainment gone like that.
BigWill
@o.codone: @Bob LaBlah: You should definitely move there.