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Yep—thankfully there are a bunch of people like that here too. But there's also a large anti-porn contingent.

AlecSchueler 3y ago
I guess I'm part of the contingent you speak of. I wouldn't call myself anti-porn but I would certianly consider myself porn-critical. Do you have any points to make that could be argued against or do you just want to scaremonger? I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that, but instead I've shared an article and some reasearch that I'm happy to discuss.
- mcphage 3y ago
  > Do you have any points to make Well, the fact that the title is "90% of online pornography" but from the actual study, it talks about 90% of the top 50 watched videos, so we've gone from "90% of pornography" to "45 videos". > I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that Well, there is.
  - AlecSchueler 3y ago
    > we've gone from "90% of pornography" to "45 videos". Yes, the 45 most watched videos. They also analyse the metadata of millions of related videos. The headline is of course not the whole study. This is very common with studies. Any time you see "X% of children exhibit Y behaviour" or even "Mice respond A to stimulus B" it's implied that they have a limited sample size due to the nature of what is practical. Altneratively: What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one. Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. > Well, there is. Yes, that's a tautology.
    - sambazi 3y ago
      > Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. i don't think you've established a rationale for the discussion you are hoping for.
    - mcphage 3y ago
      > Yes, the 45 most watched videos. Which represents what percentage of pornography watching? Or rather: what fraction of a percent of pornography watching? > Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. Well, "90% of pornography" is millions of videos. So at the very least, the material difference between them is again, literally millions of videos. > Altneratively: What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one. It's a 200 page report written in French. I have no idea.

I guess I'm part of the contingent you speak of. I wouldn't call myself anti-porn but I would certianly consider myself porn-critical. Do you have any points to make that could be argued against or do you just want to scaremonger? I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that, but instead I've shared an article and some reasearch that I'm happy to discuss.

mcphage 3y ago
> Do you have any points to make Well, the fact that the title is "90% of online pornography" but from the actual study, it talks about 90% of the top 50 watched videos, so we've gone from "90% of pornography" to "45 videos". > I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that Well, there is.
- AlecSchueler 3y ago
  > we've gone from "90% of pornography" to "45 videos". Yes, the 45 most watched videos. They also analyse the metadata of millions of related videos. The headline is of course not the whole study. This is very common with studies. Any time you see "X% of children exhibit Y behaviour" or even "Mice respond A to stimulus B" it's implied that they have a limited sample size due to the nature of what is practical. Altneratively: What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one. Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. > Well, there is. Yes, that's a tautology.
  - sambazi 3y ago
    > Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. i don't think you've established a rationale for the discussion you are hoping for.
  - mcphage 3y ago
    > Yes, the 45 most watched videos. Which represents what percentage of pornography watching? Or rather: what fraction of a percent of pornography watching? > Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though. Well, "90% of pornography" is millions of videos. So at the very least, the material difference between them is again, literally millions of videos. > Altneratively: What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one. It's a 200 page report written in French. I have no idea.