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Sometimes what seems natural is because the water was poisoned for so long. Yes, it is natural to have sexual desire, but is unfettered spread of porn with a fe
by erenyeager 3y ago
Sometimes what seems natural is because the water was poisoned for so long. Yes, it is natural to have sexual desire, but is unfettered spread of porn with a few taps easily accessible at any age really something we should accept? And young men need a lot of support, in my anecdotal experience it is too easy for so many to fall down negative paths with little support network to prevent it.
Now with AI it is even more dangerous, we have deepfakes (see recent Canada news on deepfakes of children), and the spread of more isolation and addiction with the internet “drugs” compared to genuine in person interactions with friends and family.
Technology like smartphones helped us in many ways but also they became a new way to suffer and amplified some existing problems. Shouldn’t we regulate the worst of it?
I found more dangerous than porn is the ability to communicate with random adults online as a child, with often sexual endings. I remember growing up as a teen, there were sites like Omegle and then chat apps like kik and Snapchat and then Reddit, all these places had avenues for teens and children to communicate and swap pictures with adults, etc. with little to no regulation or consequences for these companies.
- juve1996 3y agoRegulations should be reserved for the worst problems. Porn consumption should be looked at, but not sure why we can not just empower parents to do their jobs, just like we empower them to control what movies they let their children watch on TV? You see with drug abuse that regulations do little to solve the actual problems.
- erenyeager 3y agoJuul was pretty swiftly dealt with once their effects on children was noticed. Also, for parents the modern world is very difficult, there are so many influences and pressure on your children and they occupy an increasingly smaller role in influencing children these days. There needs to be society and government policy level regulations to help, individual parents enacting harsh rules will not end well in a society where advertisers are very advanced.
- lostdog 3y agoThere is no reasonable evidence-based argument that porn is even 1% as bad for you as vaping.
- atleastoptimal 3y agoI feel like use of porn is a symptom of isolation and lack of education/support structures. Fix those and people will be less vulnerable and addicted. The problem is loneliness is stigmatized and porn creates a "safe haven" where people don't have to confront the challenging dullness and angst of their life. Kurt Vonnegut once said: "What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I’m told." What is the solution, to just do what Utah and sexually repressed countries do, "Sorry no porn for you, it's in your best interest, I'm sure you will stop wanting it if we arbitrarily restrict it". It's not a solution and makes people go further "down the rabbit hole" to scratch that itch. Here's a simple way to look at it: This is a map of where pornography is illegal or restricted in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_India#/media/File:Pornography_laws.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_India#/media/Fi... Do attitudes towards pornography scale with healthy societal sexual attitudes? Judging by the map I don't suppose so.