apparently they gotta follow uk policy, word for word, bar for bar.
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I thought it was the gays, oh wait no its the transes, hang on we're back to the 1500s and are just saying "it's smut". It's very "violent video games turn men into violent monsters".
Want to really know what's radicalising young men: a mixed hangover of "the provider role" clinging on, two decades of economic implosion, and normalised sexism aimed at addressing systemic injustices. That's how you end up with radicalised young men.
Porn doesn't cause men to become violent any more than video games do. There's no study I'm aware of or a direct link to show causation other than the sensationalization of the topic.
This feels like just another excuse to seize control over the levers of privacy the people of a country have access to.
~50 years of legal porn and society still hasn't collapsed.
I remember hearing this argument for videogames 🙄
@Davriellelouna@lemmy.world
I wonder if certain... genres of adult content (such as female dominance and lesdom) would be "extreme porn" and/or "violence against women" according to his (and whoever shares his) worldview... Guess these people don't know how there are different... "entertainment subcultures".
Also, the obvious was already said throughout the comment section: just another justification for things such as what's happening with itch.io and Steam, alongside the KYC requirement that's been implemented in many places worldwide. It's tiring, really tiring to watch these things unfolding in real time across the globe.
Oh lesbian bdsm has a history of being particularly cracked down on as "violence against women." The other option would be for lawmakers and academics to meet with communities for sapphic sadomasochism (and for women involved in bdsm as a whole, straight submissive women also deserve protection from lawmakers seeking to protect them) and to try to find paths forward that create a safer and more free world.
Therefore, we need more intrusive surveillance, right?!
I watched a Sasha Grey compilation and now a bust of Karl Marx appeared on my desk
Fuck yeah, spread it
I watched Mia Khalifa and now I'm an Islamist.
That’s wild because Mia Khalifa is a Christian
I've seen video evidence she's not very observant, though.
Maybe she's really into that "love thy neighbor" thing! Also, Jesus washed the feet of whores but whipped moneylenders, so there's clearly a hierarchy to those rules and it's not looking good for christian capitalists.
Yeah I don’t want to badmouth her but I’m also really wondering if she was married to all those dudes? Like is it allowed to have multiple husbands at the same time? There was this one video where she had sex with both of her alleged husbands at the same time and it somehow leaked to the internet
I was kind of assuming that like any number of other pornstars she doesn't share the faith of her ancestors, and that was a joke. I guess I don't actually know, though.
Which of these ones you think is more likely?
- the police head reported the results of a scientific study that explores the correlation between crimes and porn preferences
- some idiot boomer finally managed to visit pornhub and was shocked by what they found
(not saying the boomer would be the police head - I don't know him and for all I know he's a person of at least average intelligence)
That's not really convincing and leaves me entirely unsure which is the more likely explanation:
- Young men's taste in porn has turned towards more violent stuff, which would be a bad sign for society at large
- Shitty algorithms on porn sites are pushing people towards more objectionable stuff just like they do on youtube
- Porn is about the same since the 1970s and the idea that it's getting worse is a fabrication
I'm going to go for 3. The vintage stuff can be really gross and misogynistic sometimes. Which is what you'd expect from the era depicted in Mad Men.
More like:
- The chief of the garda is a sick bastard who thinks everyone likes what he likes
While Harris admitted his own observations were more anecdotal, he said that both the descriptions of incidents and the attitudes of offenders show that online violence has been normalised.
Pretty much
I would definitely say the middle. Don’t get me wrong, I avidly enjoy bdsm, but most of the “rough stuff” on pornhub doesn’t look particularly enjoyable for any party - amateur has always been better for that sort of thing.
I don’t use Tik Tok, but I believe there have also been some questionable trends regarding choking and other kink stuff being shown in unhealthy ways(constrict the bloodways, not the windpipe, folks!)
Yeah as a woman who has been involved in irl bdsm communities most of her adult life, but doesn't really watch mainstream porn (I read what I read), I'm not surprised.
Whenever bdsm goes even remotely mainstream we get a lot of people who learned to do what we do via unreliable sources. Those sources range from "it seemed hot so I tried without thinking" to, books like 50 shades or the story of O or the gor books, to whatever the hell they hear on tiktok or fetlife or reddit or usenet… And for every person who shows up and fucks up in front of people who can correct them, it's safe to assume there are quite a few doing stupid and dangerous shit in the privacy of their bedrooms.
It's the other way around chief, radicalized young men seek out extreme porn because they ain't getting any of that vanilla loving.
And the way to getting that is properly educating them on consent and treating their partner with the equal love and respect they yearn for.
Also going and and actually interacting with those.... "Females", was it?
Wrong! You don't interact with the females. That's needy beta behavior. You make the females interact with you, they need to feel their need for you
Did I get this one right Mr. Tate?
Stop it Patrick, you're scaring them!
Lack of any punishment for antisocial behavior for young men in Ireland is radicalising them. Garda doesn't even try to arrest any of them when they acting like shit because they are getting released anyway.
Punishment, treatment, family support, victim support, anything would be nice!
Irish lads better be prepared for the government to be taking away your wanking licences.
An Armalite in one hand, and a tissue box in the other.
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