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Obviously this is because 77% of all pornhub viewers were underage, and NOT because privacy-infringing age checks create a deterrent effect that reduces all por
by anonym29 1y ago
Obviously this is because 77% of all pornhub viewers were underage, and NOT because privacy-infringing age checks create a deterrent effect that reduces all pornography consumption, which totally was NOT the goal all along by the puritanical fundamentalist religious groups backing this expansion of warrantless state surveillance.
It was definitely to protect the kids and NOT to try to quash all depictions of human sexuality due to a fetish for appeasing the arbitrary whims of the invisible sky daddy, as told to us by the people who pinky promise they were speaking on behalf of invisible sky daddy.
- bfkwlfkjf 1y agoI appreciate the humour and sarcasm but often less is more. You should've just written "Obviously this is because 77% of all pornhub viewers were underage" and left it at that.
- Aeglaecia 1y agothere are plenty of valid reasons that unfettered access to pornography is harmful - imagine if you had private videos leaked on the net forever , or were exploited , or were trafficked to participate , etc. plz try save vitriol for when its really needed. also the reddit tier religious bashing looks really lame.
- johnisgood 1y ago> imagine if you had private videos leaked on the net forever , or were exploited , or were trafficked to participate How does this apply here?
- anonym29 1y agoIt doesn't, because laws that compelled sites like pornhub to take down nonconsentual porn already existed before the proposal for age verification. The people pushing the age verification will never admit this to you, often because they're either ignorant of the bigger picture or not engaging in good faith in the first place, seeing themselves as the clear-eyed moral ones bringing wisdom to us heathens who don't know any better.
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- nationalint 1y agoWell said. The idea that porn is harmless fun is not borne out. That's not to say it should be entirely prohibited, but the normalisation of degrading and sometimes violent porn among young teens is a real problem affecting real people. While plenty of posters seem to have issues with the U.K. government's actions, they don't present any solutions to the issue of underage people being porn addicted. I'm not aware of any religious groups in the UK who have significant influence on legislation, perhaps unlike the US.
- irusensei 1y agoPorn addiction is pseudoscience perpetuated by right wing pundits and known quack charlatans like the late Gary Wilson.
- decremental 1y ago[dead]
- bengbwing 1y agoThe NHS offers treatment for pornography addiction. It's a subset of a wider category of behavioural addictions.
- irusensei 1y agoThe "pornography addiction" model lacks scientific support and is driven by media hype, moral conflicts, and a lucrative treatment industry. High-frequency use of visual sexual stimuli (VSS; preferred neutral term over "pornography") does not meet addiction criteria and is better explained by non-pathological factors like libido, sensation-seeking, or value conflicts. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258565076_The_Emperor_Has_No_Clothes_A_Review_of_the_'Pornography_Addiction'_Model https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258565076_The_Emper...
- kfterrg67 1y ago[flagged]
- rkachowski 1y agohow exactly does age verification prevent any of this?
- Aeglaecia 1y agoi said that the other guy's hatred for pornography restriction was a bit extreme considering that there are definitely valid reasons to restrict pornography , at no point did i say that i supported age verification
- DagsEoress 1y agoImagine being this deep into your porn addiction.
- array_key_first 1y agoImagine bending over backwards for authoritarians and willingly giving up your privacy just so you can feel slightly superior for about 5 seconds online. That's pathetic, there's really pathetic, and then there's whatever this is.
- kfterrg67 1y ago[flagged]