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Am I the only one that thinks there’s something positive to stricter control of pornography?
Even if you love porn and grew up exposed to it as a kid, you gotta admit that there are psychological effects on avid adult viewers and more on minors.
Think about what was available as a kid, too. Wait 10 min for a 3 minute to load or just search pics. Now it’s a completely different overstimulating world that transforming how people relate to sex and themselves.
I was sex-negative until recent years due to Catholic conditioning mixing with unlabeled asexuality. Seeing the rising movements against porngraphy has driven me to veer strongly sex-positive, especially after the 2024 USAmerican election.
An "anti-pornography" movement is incredibly dangerous because it can leverage that label to steamroll through anything "for the children" and ward off all but the strongest and loudest criticism. It's a lot like "Mothers Against Drunk Driving". Every Politician fears being the lone dissenter on a "for the children" bill; No judge wants to seen as soft on "children accessing porn".
Porn may be "transforming how people relate to sex and themselves". The anti-porn movement is working to rip away digital privacy, trying to destroy LGBTQIA+ lives, and will squash free artistic expression. Think of any work of art that ever includes nudity, or ever depicts sex - through text, imagery or video. Now imagine defending its "artistic value" to an armed soldier who stormed in your house, or being badgered by a prosecutor in front of a judge and panel of 12.
"Anti-porn" or "Anti-kids accessing porn" legislation are the legislative equivalent of setting off a firecracker in your mouth to stop a toothache. I remain baffled every time I see support for this from "progressive" online spaces and voices, especially considering that we are living under the Republican regime, Right Now.
It's just people not using their brains, everything is just viewed at its surface level with no deeper analysis ever conducted. They are the sort of idiots that think that Starship Troopers is profascism.
People that like Fight Club, American Psycho, and Starship Troopers... k, but like, do you get it or are you a nut job?