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totallynotarobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

While they’re at it they could add “potential to cause spontaneous human combustion” or “potentially damaging to time-space continuum.” Potentially. I’m no porn fan, but my understanding is the evidence on the addictiveness claims is super weak.

The causal arrow between porn and the brain development thing could easily go either way. It’s hard to tell.

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trachemys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Surely porn is known to California to cause cancer.

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- SoylentBlake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It must, that label is on everything, so it effectively means nothing. This exchange happened between my wife and I a couple months ago
  
  ‘oh honey look…this pink Himalayan salt, which expires in…2 weeks?!? is known to the state of cancer to cause California. Ah, science. What a time to be alive’
  
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  - BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The amount of lead in Himalayan salt (it’s mined from mountains in Pakistan) can be above allowed limits, and especially can cause developmental issues in children. Europe has same or possibly more stringent lead expectations.
    
    I guess the two takes could be “ugh California has warnings on everything so it’s meaningless” or “wow, FDA really doesn’t give a fuck and allows all this stuff to go unchecked”
    
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  - xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What if the label itself is what causes cancer?!?
    
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    frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They’re usually vinyl (PVC), and it probably does. At least it would if you ingest or burn it. Burning it could release chlorine, too, so the cancer might be the least of your worries.
    
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- bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Don’t forget the reproductive harm!
  
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- StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Shhh don’t give them any ideas!
  
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iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, there’s such a thing as being addicted to porn. I fall to see how you get such an addiction without looking at it

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- FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, but there’s such a thing as being addicted to sex, too, and pretty much any pleasurable activity. It’s generally pretty rare.
  
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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Causation vs. Correlation. Porn addicts have obviously watched porn. But that doesn’t mean that watching porn causes porn addiction.
  
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  - iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s like saying drug addicts have obviously used drugs, but it’s only correlated to their addiction
    
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    dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not really. Drugs do have psychoactive components that can, provably and physiologically, cause addiction with a single use. Opioids famously have been observed to cause neural changes in rats consistent with addiction after a single dosage.
    
    It’s more like, gambling. Millions of people gamble, a portion of them have a gambling addiction. Does that mean that gambling causes addiction? well, obviously, yes, but also, no. Or else how to explain the millions of people who can even take a vacation in Las Vegas but don’t feel a constant compulsion to gamble all of their money away. Equally, almost every single human being has sex in their lifetimes, but only a small portion of the population suffers a compulsion to have sex constantly. Does sex causes addiction? the question is in itself way too simplistic and disingenuous. Addiction involves so many other factors that it can’t be reduced to “being exposed to porn causes addiction”.
    
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