Re:Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
by closewith on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:44PM
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Right — and the facts are that early porn exposure is linked to earlier sex, riskier behaviours, body shame, and higher odds of aggression and coercion, especially when the content is violent. That’s not some moral panic — that’s the current consensus of peer-reviewed studies, UNICEF, and public health bodies. Believing otherwise in the face of that evidence isn’t rational scepticism, it’s delusion. You need to stop pretending kids watching Pornhub is harmless — it isn’t.
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Re:Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
by Retric on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:58PM
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Everything has some level of harm, the issue here is comparing relative vs absolute harm. Pointing out a net positive doesn’t invalidate other harms, but to find the net effect it must be considered.
Also, there’s significant questions around porn and early sexual activity with evidence in both directions. Unsurprisingly, people be complicated.
Just as an example the “explosion” of internet porn would if the theory is correct presumably have had some population impacts on when people first had sex but 1997 to 2007 showed zero changes. “The proportion of high school students who were sexually active has remained steady since 1997” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3064497/
Obviously being a survey the data is suspect but still a meaningful datapoint here.