Why are they afraid to outlaw porn?
They enjoy it too much...sarc
The harsh reality is that laws about porn ‘evolved’ into liberality from the 1950’s to the 1970’s then the media revolution of satellite dishes and the internet.
The one area they regulated after all-out liberality was adopted in the early 1970’s was child porn.
The old TV disclaimer about content ‘for mature audiences’ when I was young comes to mind.
This is the most potent powerful drug its taboo to talk about.
Porn is part of what one author called “The Lust Virus” a pandemic of images a pseudosexual revolution a loss of reality.
https://roykfiles.com/books/lust-virus/
Congress critters are known to be users of porn.
If Texas can demand age verification for porn (which is sadly just free speech under past precedent) because it’s “dangerous”, then California can demand age verification for sites like Freerepublic as “dangerous”.
The government is a crappy parent.
It’s the parents’ job to monitor this and raise their children correctly.