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Re:Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules by loudmax on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:23AM (#44180475)
The amount of exposure matters here. It's one thing for a teenager to manage to occasionally access clandestine pornography (as was kind of the norm growing up in the 1980's). It's a much worse thing to spend many hours per week looking at porn. The former is probably not a terrible thing, the latter is not healthy for emotional or social development.

Plus, there are other positive aspects to keeping kids busy and involved with healthy social activities.

Re:Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules by const_cast on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:18AM (#44188503)
But there's probably downsides too. Just anecdotally, I know lot's of locked-down home school type kids who quickly fell into alcoholism and drug-abuse because of their lifestyle. When you get nothing, and then get a lot of access, some people go crazy.

Yes, it would be nice if every little kid can be a nice altar boy who plays football and reads under the tree. But let's be realistic - making mistakes is part of life, and it's really the part of life that allows us to figure out who we are.