The issue isn't about people having problems finding porn, it's about them having problems finding YOUR site. You have to think about it from the site owners perspective, because in the end they make that decision. And they sure as hell aren't going to move to .xxx if it means significant drop in traffic and customers.

Most people don't know about safe search or that it's supposed to filter adult results. The thing is, it doesn't really work and people can find lots of adult content without going thru the trouble of changing the setting. This puts you in a really bad position, as your competitors will continue to be in the safe search results and you're voluntarily putting yourself out of there, missing 99% of searches.

The largest sites are well-known, yes. The smaller ones aren't and people looking for niche porn are doing it by searching. There is a huge industry optimizing sites for niche keywords to help users find the sites they're looking for. Many of those aren't usually put under the safe search off -results unless you really use much porn language on the site (therefore hitting the algorithm based filters). If they choose to use .xxx instead it's almost guaranteed Google knows it's adult content and puts you off the safe search results, therefore killing your traffic and income.

Not only that, but there's also another huge business issue. Adult websites gets insane amounts of traffic from search engines. It's almost given that Google and other search engines will put all .xxx domains under the safe search off -option, which many people either don't know how to put off or don't want to as it's categorized as "safe" instead of adult stuff. So if you put behind sites you're guaranteed to get filtered off safe search, while your competitors using .com and other general domains can do just fine within the usual search too. If you get lots of search engine traffic, you will kill your income by moving to .xxx.

I have traveled to many seemingly "worse" places on earth (Russia, China, Cambodia and other south east asian countries, Africa) and NOWHERE I have experienced stuff like that. USA needs to stop playing the security theater. It doesn't work and it's only absolutely stupid towards normal people. Fingering your vagina and ass, seriously? Stuff like this is why I don't even want to travel to US.

That being said, there are many people who still travel. I guess it doesn't count much if I don't want to travel to US. Like for example here in Europe many students still want to spend an year in US university. I guess it's a little bit more relaxed there, as here government pays for the university classes and you actually have to study to stay there. In the US your parents pay it, so you can take it more relaxed, have fun and drink beer. A dream for many Europeans, who usually actually have to study, learn and work hard. And don't get me wrong - there's lots of innovation in the US, but generally (and in the internet) it feels like US people just don't know much. But innovation can be made more easy if you drink alcohol and take drugs - the ideas just come to your head. That's why I think US is the number one country in the world regarding innovation.

I actually wanted to travel there to see the country myself, but if the welcoming basket is like this, just forget about it.