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I think porn has ~net neural effects on kids. One of the upsides is it’s a time sink replacing activities that can result in direct physical harm, just as video
by Retric 1y ago
I think porn has ~net neural effects on kids. One of the upsides is it’s a time sink replacing activities that can result in direct physical harm, just as video games do etc.
Without hormones driving people to it it’s uninteresting. After hormones kick in there’s upsides and downsides to porn, but those hormones are pushing a drug like effect and thus addiction either way.
- closewith 1y ago> One of the upsides is it’s a time sink replacing activities that can result in direct physical harm, just as video games do etc. This is a delusional worldview.
- thunderfork 1y agoThis is not a very constructive comment. Explain how?
- episteme 1y agoI think they might have meant that video games are also a time sink, not that video games cause harm?
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- closewith 1y agoIt's delusional to believe that porn and video games using the time that could otherwise be spent on any number of better and healthier actions is a good think.
- Retric 1y agoReality works on what is, “could be” is your delusion here.
- closewith 1y agoAlmost anything else a ten year old will plausibly get up to, even sedentarily, will be better than pornography.
- Retric 1y agoMany things a 10 year old get up to have significantly higher risks of death. Banning pornography nationwide, limiting video game time etc, therefore inevitably results in kids dying. So you need to demonstrate the benefits outweigh that tangible harm.
- closewith 1y agoIs your argument that pornography has a lower risk than the median activity of a child? If so, you are deluded and quite honestly disturbed. I mean this with pity, you should seek counselling.
- Retric 1y ago> median activity of a child? Mean, the median is irrelevant here for hopefully obvious reasons. > you are deluded You keep saying that word, but facts are facts. If your argument is it’s better for more kids to die, that’s fucked up. Alternatively you could be ignoring reality, but there’s no third option here.
- closewith 1y agoRight — and the facts are that early porn exposure is linked to earlier sex, riskier behaviours, body shame, and higher odds of aggression and coercion, especially when the content is violent. That’s not some moral panic — that’s the current consensus of peer-reviewed studies, UNICEF, and public health bodies. Believing otherwise in the face of that evidence isn’t rational scepticism, it’s delusion. You need to stop pretending kids watching Pornhub is harmless — it isn’t.