• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    9 days ago

    Why do you wish it was less accessible? I was in the same boat but I feel it was largely a source of sexual satisfaction and even education in some cases. And today I have many and very healthy relationships with women, just to preempt those questions.

    Despite decades-long moral panic around this topic, I haven’t found much evidence for pornography harming young people, maybe aside from some niche issues that are not well-addressed with this type of legislation.

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      9 days ago

      There are a ton of porn addicts it is not just a moral problem. There are whole communities trying to leave behind porn, they are not that hard to find them. Most of people there started to consume porn as kids. I know because I was in one of them.

      I also think and this is just my opinion based on my experience, there is some relation with the huge amount of incels and porn addiction.

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        9 days ago

        Based on my reading, porn addiction isn’t a real medical condition and is largely driven by internalized or external stigma around porn usage. Usually, but not always stemming from a religious worldview that shames people for masturbating or having an interest in sex outside of the context of heterosexual marital procreation.

        There could be small numbers of people who truly have an unhealthy relationship with porn, but if so, they are greatly outnumbered by the people I described above, such that I haven’t found research on their experiences.