# Texas "anti-anime" law kicks in, already having fallout

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**Created:** [September 13, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-anti-anime-law-kicks-in-already-having-fallout/1023023 "2025-09-13T20:00:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-anti-anime-law-kicks-in-already-having-fallout/1023023/102 "2025-09-17T23:30:46Z")

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> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I’m opposed to banning porn but I do want to respond to the common myth that romance _is_ porn. A book may have sex scenes, even sex scenes intended to titillate, but that doesn’t make it porn necessarily. While some romance novels are basically pornographic, a lot are more focused on actual stories.

Porn can have stories. Ultimately, it’s “romance” and not “porn” (or something else) because it’s marketed at women. Genre is a marketing tool; men are allergic to the _word_ “romance” so something is labeled romance if aimed at women, something else if aimed at men or a general audience.

Heh, I recall a thread years ago where a woman mentioned that she and her husband had been discussing one of the Vorkosigan novels. She was amused to discover that _she’d_ classified it as “romance with a science fiction setting”, while _he’d_ classified it as “military sci-fi with a romance subplot. The funny part being that _both_ were correct, it just depended on how one chose to look at it.

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