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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (8 children)

We had these kinds of debates when I myself was a minor (in the late 2000s). I would have thought it would be over by now and people would have realized that allowing teenagers to watch porn isn't actually very harmful to them at all. Seems not, humanity doesn't get smarter over time.

[–] dmalteseknight 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The porn landscape has changed quite a bit since the 2000s:

Accessibility: In those days people had the "family computer" which limited the time you could access porn and had to be extra careful as to not get caught. Nowadays you can see porn on a plethora of devices and can basically see porn 24/7.
Variety: Nowadays you can find porn for anything and it can get pretty dark. Porn addicts get bored of regular porn and go down a dark rabbit hole. Back in the day you had to make due with what you get or go through a lot of effort to find something you like more.

Mind you I am not saying that porn should be outright banned but there should be barriers in place. Example porn can only use the domain "xxx" so parents can add the filter to the parenting controls of whatever devices. Sure there are ways to circumvent that but it at least takes more effort.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lol to the "back in the day porn was safer". Back innthe day the worst stuff was openly distributed on normal porn sites. It was actually difficult not to stumble over illegal ot really disturbing stuff when browsing those sites. And don't get me started on the stuff people send you on some irc servers unasked (that was more in the late 90s though).

Even non porn sites could be bad. Like one time I was browsing a non-porn anime site and suddenly landed on a porn site that had me scared the police might kick in my door, despite closing it immediately after it opened.

This, luckily, is a lot better regulated nowadays.

I give you accessibility though. Having a internet connected computer in you pocket 24/7 might make things much worse.

[–] dmalteseknight 2 points 3 months ago

I might have worded my comment poorly. I did not mean to insinuate that it was "safer" but that there is more variety. That is, it is easier to find 18th century toaster porn today than back in the 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Porn addicts get bored of regular porn and go down a dark rabbit hole.

This has been disproven over and over. The only people who go to the "darker stuff" are people who are already inclined. They just work themselves up to it by going through the regular stuff.

It's the same thing with serial killers, they warm up to it with animals. Which is why someone killing animals is a massive warning sign.

No, I'm not comparing serial killers to porn addicts. I'm comparing the process of warming up to the extreme stuff by first doing the less extreme stuff.

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