The US is one of the top 15 countries to visit PornHub. And the LA area is one of the top porn producing areas in the world. There’s plenty wrong with this country, but I don’t think we’re particularly more against porn than other countries.
What people privately do (browse porn, of course they do, being people), and what is produced in one of the most liberal places in the entire country, has very little to do with the public mores and norms of the country as a whole. Of course taboos are always fetishized more than more mundane things. The Victorians, famous for their prudity, were privately… not quite that. And really, why would anyone produce porn in a place as expensive as the LA region if they could reasonably do that anywhere else?
> And the LA area is one of the top porn producing areas in the world.
The US has the largest porn industry and its popular culture is full of sexual suggestiveness, but there is a very strange undercurrent of immense fear of realistic portrayal of sexual relations or even naked bodies. Not the cartoonish porn bimbos with huge plastic tits, not the endless comedic stream of inadequacy jokes (Al Bundy etc) - but meaningful and enjoyable sex and nudity.
If you ever take a deep dive into the French or Italia cinema, one of the things you'll discover is the extreme immaturity of how intersex relations are depicted in American popular culture. It's very rare to see sex depicted as a natural part of a healthy relationship, and not an achievement, a reward or a proof of masculinity.
Ask PornHub what bank accepts their business or what payment provider they are using. They can't accept paypal for one. Lots of moral censoring going on by private businesses for things that are actually legal (Guns, Weed, Porn etc).
America's cultural dominance means on many issues, you can criticise America from either side.
Pornography? America. Religious conservatism? Also America. Unrealistic body image, photoshop and actors on steroids? America. Highest obesity rates? Also America. Nazi flags as a constitutional right? America. Safe spaces and twitter mobs? Also America. Most powerful copyright lobby? America. Piracy software and the copyleft movement? Also America.
