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How is requiring age verification for porn different than age verification for cigarettes and alcohol that every state has? Pornography has well researched add

• Nasrudith 3y ago
  Does your liquor store record the date and time of every purchase?
• johngladtj 3y ago
  That should not be required either
• giraffe_lady 3y ago
  > Pornography has well researched addictive and other negative properties Has it actually? I know phrases like "porn addiction" are casually used, but the last time I looked there wasn't much study of it in terms of the science of addiction. Most of the people self-reporting porn addiction were experiencing distress because of the incompatibility of their porn use with their religious beliefs, but their use itself wasn't extreme or pathological per se. Which doesn't mean there aren't problems with it, or that it can't cause extreme problems for some people. But in my exposure to addiction medicine, it's treated more as a psychosocial compulsion like shopping or video game addiction.
• Manuel_D 3y ago
  > Pornography has well researched addictive and other negative properties There's a lot of misleading or outright misinformation about the effects of pornography. For instance one study claiming an incredibly high rate of abuse depicted in pornography categorized ejaculating on someone's face as abuse. It's also very hard to research because it's difficult to establish controls: almost all men watch pornography.