Comment on Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law
bobgusford@lemmy.world 7 months agoNobody 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.
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.