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The theory being that video porn is substantially more harmful than actual use of prostitution services? It doesn't seem impossible, but I'd want to see some st

• philwelch 6y ago
  It’s certainly different in some relevant ways. Actual use of prostitution services requires money (which limits how much you can consume, unlike online porn), requires interacting face-to-face with other human beings and sometimes even leaving the house. There’s also a dynamic where people quickly get bored with porn and start consuming increasingly extreme or fringe porn to get the same satisfaction which I think is new. To clarify, kinks aren’t new, but just like political extremism, the internet is much better at radicalizing people into them. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, and I’m somewhat libertarian on the issue if only out of resignation, but I think that online pornography is extremely new and unprecedented and may indeed be very detrimental to society.
  • asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
    Yeah. I can see how the hypothesis forms. I feel like it's going to be extremely difficult to tease out what is actually caused by porn and what is caused by increased screen time, changing economic conditions, and changing non-porn cultural norms. So many confounding variables. Is porn use causative (of whatever) or is it just a biased selector? Anecdote of one, but I use it not infrequently and still have a healthy and fun sexual relationship with my spouse. Managed to produce two children and participate positively in society too. I may be baised, but I think I'm at most 25% degenerate. That being said, maybe I'll try going without for a while and see whether it has any effect.