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We now have the first generation of people who grew up with easily accessible porn from a young age. Happens to also be the same generation that grew up with vi

We now have the first generation of people who grew up with easily accessible porn from a young age. Happens to also be the same generation that grew up with violent video games and "parental advisory" music. Either millennials are a gang of psychotic murdering rapists or religious people are knee-jerk driven idiots.

jaco6 2y ago
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echelon 2y ago
These ID-tracking laws are a dragnet to build kompromat and return society to puritanism. If these lawmakers really cared about children, they'd look into giving them school lunches. There's far creepier stuff happening on VRChat and Roblox anyway. These lawmakers don't even care enough to understand what they're talking about. But in any case, the legislation will lag innovation. In two years, you'll be able to generate custom porn of whatever you want on your own device using diffusion video models. No Internet needed.
- petre 2y ago
  > you'll be able to generate custom porn of whatever you want on your own device using diffusion video models I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that, since you did not complete the age verification process.
Clubber 2y ago
>We now have the first generation ... easily accessible porn from a young age. I'm GenX and there was always a Playboy or something similar around. Porn on VHS was pretty accessible since it was so easy to copy. There was also "Skinemax," (Cinemax) as we called it after hours. >grew up with violent video games and "parental advisory" music. GenX also grew up with this.
- mingus88 2y ago
  Yep. My dad kept his playboys under his bed. I knew as young as probably six or seven. They sold them openly in magazine racks at the gas station and in middles school most boys had easy access. The 90s had Usenet, IRC and free image galleries. Smut was on AOL and Compuserve. If you had a 56k modem, you could get as much porn as you could download. Early 2000s had limewire and other early p2p sharing programs. Same places we got pirated games, music and movies was riddled with porn. Porn has been ubiquitous forever. The demand will always be there. It’s human nature.
- snozolli 2y ago
  Your comment reminded me of watching the scrambled Playboy Channel on cable TV, desperately hoping to spot a moderately warped and discolored image of a boob. For the younger readers, this is approximately what it looked like: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1g05h46/trying_to_catch_a_glimpse_of_the_scrambled_tv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1g05h46/trying_t...
petre 2y ago
Baby boomers grew up with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, yet they're far from a gang of drug addicted rapists playing loud music.
- K0balt 2y ago
  Ymmv
snapplebobapple 2y ago
Definitely psychotic murdering rapists. They are so good at it that they have managed to conceal their heinous actions from the crime statistics. Millennials are clearly supervillains.
ryandvm 2y ago
You're right. How do you square that with the fact this generation is also having less sex and having a harder time meeting romantic partners?

jaco6 2y ago

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echelon 2y ago

These ID-tracking laws are a dragnet to build kompromat and return society to puritanism. If these lawmakers really cared about children, they'd look into giving them school lunches. There's far creepier stuff happening on VRChat and Roblox anyway. These lawmakers don't even care enough to understand what they're talking about. But in any case, the legislation will lag innovation. In two years, you'll be able to generate custom porn of whatever you want on your own device using diffusion video models. No Internet needed.

petre 2y ago
> you'll be able to generate custom porn of whatever you want on your own device using diffusion video models I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that, since you did not complete the age verification process.

Clubber 2y ago

>We now have the first generation ... easily accessible porn from a young age. I'm GenX and there was always a Playboy or something similar around. Porn on VHS was pretty accessible since it was so easy to copy. There was also "Skinemax," (Cinemax) as we called it after hours. >grew up with violent video games and "parental advisory" music. GenX also grew up with this.

mingus88 2y ago
Yep. My dad kept his playboys under his bed. I knew as young as probably six or seven. They sold them openly in magazine racks at the gas station and in middles school most boys had easy access. The 90s had Usenet, IRC and free image galleries. Smut was on AOL and Compuserve. If you had a 56k modem, you could get as much porn as you could download. Early 2000s had limewire and other early p2p sharing programs. Same places we got pirated games, music and movies was riddled with porn. Porn has been ubiquitous forever. The demand will always be there. It’s human nature.
snozolli 2y ago
Your comment reminded me of watching the scrambled Playboy Channel on cable TV, desperately hoping to spot a moderately warped and discolored image of a boob. For the younger readers, this is approximately what it looked like: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1g05h46/trying_to_catch_a_glimpse_of_the_scrambled_tv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/1g05h46/trying_t...

petre 2y ago

Baby boomers grew up with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, yet they're far from a gang of drug addicted rapists playing loud music.

K0balt 2y ago
Ymmv

snapplebobapple 2y ago

Definitely psychotic murdering rapists. They are so good at it that they have managed to conceal their heinous actions from the crime statistics. Millennials are clearly supervillains.

ryandvm 2y ago

You're right. How do you square that with the fact this generation is also having less sex and having a harder time meeting romantic partners?