Nobody disputes it when social media addiction is the topic du jour, but internet porn addiction has been around even before social media became big. And I’m basing this on the number of downvotes you got - I guess these are all the people that went on Pornhub, saw nothing enticing, and moved on.
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AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 7 months ago
“unproven” because it’s Texan. Fuck The Verge, Internet porn addiction is as real as those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.
bobgusford@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I agree porn addiction has been around for a long time, but we’re reaching a point in time where people who are expected to be adults and functional in their mid 20’s grew up in a world of ubiquitous Internet access and had smart phones.
So while porn addiction existed since photography, this is the first time we get to see the effect of population-wide unrestricted access to these things from a very young age.
It’s actually probably better now with parent-child account management and the like, which didn’t exist at all 15-20 years ago. Also 15-20 years ago CSAM, death imagery, real rape and mutilation videos were all on the front pages of openly accessible .com’s anyone could visit.
SCB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man without the beetle analogy I wasn’t going to be sold on your personal and admittedly weird crusade, but now
AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I wasn’t kidding. www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152
Imagine an alien species bombarded the planet with organic real-dolls grown in vats, we basically did that to this species of beetle
SCB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This link is the highlight of my week
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Um. What?
AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 7 months ago
There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate
Like the caricatures of breedable perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species
www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152