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there 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 explo
by Aeglaecia 1y ago
there 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...
- 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