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Banning VPNs would be absolutely wild. There are so many legitimate use cases for them, for example many companies use them for security.

No! I disagree. I don’t know it. You can’t just assume other people feel the same way you do about a topic.

That’s not an articulated argument, that’s a statement and vibes.

You really haven’t. It’s all very vibes based rather than a properly articulated argument

That’s fair. But banning something just because “it feels right in your heart” is quite a leap. You need to be able to articulate why something is wrong beyond “it feels wrong to me”. Someone who grew up in a cult probably thinks it “feels wrong in their heart” to disobey their cult leader, they are experiencing that exact same feeling you are, yet from the outside it is plain as day that feeling is wrong, limiting, and unhealthy. I’m not saying that you are wrong, simply that you should look more deeply into why you feel this way so strongly yet are unable to articulate a reason why. If you can’t find a way to articulate it clearly then it may be an indication that it’s an artefact of the shame, repression or ideas you learnt about sexuality when you were younger rather than a sensible and healthy point of view.

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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/582784 “The study, published in the journal Socius, found that between 2007 and 2017, the percentage of 18-to 23-year-old men who had casual sex in the past month dropped from 38 percent to 24 percent. The percentage dropped from 31 percent to 22 percent for young women of the same age.” Casual sex and relationships have both significantly declined since the 90s and early 2000s. You’ve changed the argument again. In your previous post you said casual sex is bad because it desensitises your conscience, now you’re expanding on that by saying… porn desensitises your conscience? On that point I can agree, certain porn likely does. But your original point was that casual sex desensitises conscience, not porn. These are two separate arguments. Honestly, I’m getting tired of discussing this with you because your arguments and points are severely lacking in consistency and detail.

So how come as porn use has skyrocketed, promiscuity has gone down? ”desensitises you and your conscience” is very vague, please explain what you mean in more detail and perhaps with some examples

Again, this is a separate point. I do not see the issue with casual sex, so provide an actual argument first why casual sex is bad instead of “it just is, look bro” and we can talk about this next. But let’s conclude the initial argument first: do you stand by your statement that porn causes promiscuity?

Goalposts just got wayyyyyy wider. Let’s bring them back to the original point you made which was “porn increases promiscuity” If you concede that there is no evidence for this, we can discuss this next point.

Ironically it’s kind of kinky. Orgasm denial from the government We’ll call this regime The Directorate for Algorithmic Detection of Deviant Yankers, or D.A.D.D.Y for short.

It’s literally a 5 second google to get this information, but here’s one of the thousands of articles covering it for your ease https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-sex-recession-the-share-of-americans-having-regular-sex-keeps-dropping?utm_source=chatgpt.com Both single and married people are having less sex. Could porn have influenced this? Yea, potentially. But that’s a separate argument. Your point of “porn causes promiscuity” has little to no evidence backing it, in fact most of the evidence points to the contrary

“Promiscuity means engaging in casual sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners without long-term commitment or exclusivity.” Yet the overall amount of sex being had has gone down since the 90s. So as porn has increased, promiscuity has decreased

Lol, dream on Has it though? People are actually having less sex on average now than they did in the past. If anything, porn lowers the amount of promiscuity in the world

No no you misunderstand you see, this thread isn’t about age /s

Anybody with a phone can film porn, banning creation is probably harder than banning consumption

I think this is extremely naive. The UK govt has introduced a mandatory age check on porn sites. What happened? All the big porn sites implemented it, but all the little ones didn’t because the govt can’t make them. So now you funnel kids towards the sketchy ass unregulated porn sites instead of the ones that follow regulations. What you’re talking about would require coordination on a global level, massive internet restriction and monitoring infrastructure, potentially OS level monitoring on every single phone, laptop and computer. The privacy implications for this alone are horrific. And even then it wouldn’t be comprehensive enough to stop a mildly determined teenager with a Linux image.

The dream of the conservative techno feudalist

The demand for porn is so high that humans will now always find a way as long as technology is around. What are you going to do, get rid of phones and laptops and computers? install trackers on everybody's phone and laptop that's constantly scanning for porn? If you think it's possible then tell me how.

The logic of "it didn't exist 200 years ago so it's possible for it to stop existing now" is flawed on many levels. Once the genie is out of the bottle, putting it back in is impossible. I also don't think drugs and porn are inherently bad, nor is it wrong to enjoy sex for pleasure. Also, as with many things, the harder you try to restrict and ban something the more it becomes appealing.

Then what is it about, if not age?

lmao, the thread is about age, of course it's relevant

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The misery emanating from this is palpable

I've never used a pickup line in my life and I plan to keep it that way. Just natural conversation and playfulness is the way to go. What I mean by women don't want pickup artists is that they don't want the dude who gets up on a Saturday morning to go to a local high street and spam approach women.