bengbwing

> Yet in online spaces, this policy seems wildly unpopular

That depends on which online spaces you frequent. Ones like HN, which have a higher proportion of male users, will be statistically more likely to have commenters who engage in habitual pornography consumption and are vocally opposed to the OSA on this basis.

The NHS offers treatment for pornography addiction. It's a subset of a wider category of behavioural addictions.

Yes indeed, and also worth bearing in mind that, particularly as this is a male-dominated forum, many of the people commenting here will be habitual porngraphy consumers who will have a negative view of any mechanism that gets in the way of their consumption.

Given the harms of the pornography industry to both those directly exploited by it and those who consume its output, this is excellent news, even if the statistic only reflects a smaller deterrent effect due to VPN use and so on.

Certainly a win for drafters of the OSA, despite the controversy stirred up over its enactment.