Basman

I'd like to get Instagram again to stay connected with friends and family, and I heard its good for dating, but there,'s so much distractive trash on these apps. Same with Snapchat. Stories, reels and random bullshit I don't want. They also take up so much data on my phone, like a gb+.

@Carl-Richard your question begging and ignoring the substance of my arguments. I've made my case.

Ragebaited by bullshit. It's not even about porn itself for me.

It's pseudo scientific. Religion and morality are the biggest predictor of issues with porn and masturbation. You convey you don't know but make a strong statement why at the same time. Who in the world is lobbying for porn? Anti-porn advocates have no rigor, just like how they can't stop watching porn. It's essentially propaganda most of the time.

Bro, these people are terrible. So much insecurity, victim mindset and lack of communication. Imagine secretly tracking your spouses phone...

How much about it you judge as bad and something to feel guilty about. How value ladden judging something as an "addiction" is. That's why medically there are very strict standards for something to be considered an addiction to avoid bias. They way most anti-porn advocates use the term is to mask (though maybe not deliberately) their religiosity. And surprise surprise, the biggest predictor of having a "porn addiction" is religiosity. Most of this anti-porn stuff is conformist nonsene. Also, illustrates how religion conditions people to have low self-esteem by setting impossible standards. There's nothing unnatural with the inclination to jerk off to porn, which is why culturally religious dudes are so vocally against. They feel guilt but can't help themselves, so they externalize the issue.

I thought you where gooning Red Dead. Forgot how long ago that was lol.

For one, it's masking how value ladden judgement of what constitutes "porn addiction" usually is. How much guilt plays a part.

When talking about excessive porn use, and excessive media use in general, people tend to ignore the historical and socialogical trends that brought us here in the first place. Like the untethering of social bonds, the difficulty of getting a job, work itself lacking dignity in the modern age, lack of meaningful aspirations (and by extension too much free time), etc. Maybe porn is just the friends we didn't make along the way.

Which is why it's unserious. It's not true. "Addiction" is easily used to sneak in all sorts of assumptions. It's not just semantics it's epistemological.

Which is also reflective of a lot of internet users. The misuse of medical speak and unbacked claims of the negatives (misinformation) of porn is trying to sound more credible than they really are. It's really about latent cultural religious values and conformity in my opinion. I'm going to sound like a broken record, but why is porn uniquely worse than gaming? Nearly everything you attribute to being bad about porn can be equally true of gaming. But only one recieves this kind of energy.

You can call it a compulsion. It's like the word "narcissist". It's an exact term. Using it flippantly is unserious and a misuse of serious medicial terms in my opinion.

I believe most anti-porn advocacy is religious and ideological in nature but take on a "scientific" approach since the ideological approach is a non-starter nowadays. Again, 8 hours of gaming doesn't get the same level of critique of as 8 hours of porn despite the former being way more common. Fight The New Drug is a prime example. It's a Utah based organization (mormon) that preaches anti-porn advocacy using pseudoscience, misinformation and correlatory conclusions. That is an ideological driven org masking itself as rigorous and truthful. The Nofap org is similair, but more akin to a grift in my opinion. The owner Alexander Rhodes would sue people who criticized his work and he trademarked "nofap" as a silencing tool. Obviously because it's an untruthful org that doesn't want to be exposed.

No respected medical board defines it as an addiction. They have precise standards for what is considred an addiction. "Porn addiction" is a pseudoscience. It's more common to spend that kind of time gaming, but you don't see moral panic over that to nearly the same degree. Functionality alone is way to broad and iffy as a definition. It's not functional to be on a forum 1-3 hours every day either. I guess you have an addiction and need psychiatric help. I'd argue that excessive media consumption is more likely symptomatic of something underlying then the cause. Someone who has 8 hours to burn has issues and doesn't have a life. That's not only a psychological issue, but also sociological and historical (untethering of bonds, stare of the job market, etc.). The urge here is to blame porn for a bunch of issues that aren't directly related to porn itself.

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions

It's factually not an addiction. This is what I mean by exaggerating.

If you wait even longer you can get it for a good discount as well. That's what I'm probably going to end up doing. Buy it for 15 something on a Steam sale 4-6 years from now.

You can't become addicted to porn. You can have a compulsion, but those are always more psychological in nature.

I can't find any solid evidence of that which isn't underlined by conformist cultural attitudes. The opportunity cost of spending thousands of hours on entertainment is much greater overall. Your life satisfaction is contingent to a large extent to how effective you are at executing in my opinion. Don't dismiss so flippantly the impact thousands of hours on entertainment and social media actually is.

I don't understand why e-bros have such a hate boner for porn. It's negative effects are way overstated and exaggerated to a insane degree. "More addictive than cocaine"... Give me a break. The primary issue with porn is it simply being a waste of time. That's it. But when it comes to people wasting their time then they are "ruining" their lives way more with Netflix, doom scrolling and gaming. Talk about depression for those who logged 1k+ hours in League of Legends or Runescape. Porn gets disproportional blame for how the entertainment media complex consume your life. Being anti-porn is squarely conformity. I really think that it is Christian in origin.

Boy, where do you find the time? That was just a month or two ago...

I have the same issue, though some videos still work.

Your essentially arguing against people who don't believe in universal truth. There are various arguments you could make for universal truth. There are hard limits to what you can imagine and it being true at the same time, which is proof of universal truth. Just because you can think it doesn't mean its true, like thinking your immune to bullets or that you can fly. If truth doesn't exist then there are no such thing as lies, just different perspectives. To see that someone is lying you have to distinguish between truth and lies. What someone says and does. Murdering an innocent person is likely going to be seen as unfair, which implies the existence of universal felt experience, otherwise you can't argue that if is wrong to murder anyone. Any morals can't operate if not based on universal felt experiences, IE. truth. If it is all perspective, then there is no such thing as morality. Use this argument to discredit their social justice stuff and see how they react. Relativity doesn't occlude the existance of truth, but nuances it. For something to be relative it has to be constrasted by something absolute, like for example being alive. You can't be alive and hold the perspective that your actually dead, because you can't be dead or alive at the same time. You can only hold a relative perspective if you are alive. Blue isn't red, red isn't green, green isn't black, etc. The experience of red can only be red, not green or blue. Being blind or otherwise incapable of seeing red doesn't mean red doesn't exist. You just can't see it.

Nothing really stops you from getting into politics right now that I am aware of. I think most people don't care about running a country day to day. The advantage of career politicians is that they gain a lot of experience with doing politics and being leaders.

I still don't know wtf a frame is. I can frame cancel in Smash. That's all the frame you get.