Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.
“potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.”
These warnings should be required for all social media sites every time you open any webpage or app.
Or printed on every bible.
While they’re at it they could add “potential to cause spontaneous human combustion” or “potentially damaging to time-space continuum.” Potentially. I’m no porn fan, but my understanding is the evidence on the addictiveness claims is super weak.
The causal arrow between porn and the brain development thing could easily go either way. It’s hard to tell.
Surely porn is known to California to cause cancer.
Don’t forget the reproductive harm!
It must, that label is on everything, so it effectively means nothing. This exchange happened between my wife and I a couple months ago
‘oh honey look…this pink Himalayan salt, which expires in…2 weeks?!? is known to the state of cancer to cause California. Ah, science. What a time to be alive’
The amount of lead in Himalayan salt (it’s mined from mountains in Pakistan) can be above allowed limits, and especially can cause developmental issues in children. Europe has same or possibly more stringent lead expectations.
I guess the two takes could be “ugh California has warnings on everything so it’s meaningless” or “wow, FDA really doesn’t give a fuck and allows all this stuff to go unchecked”
Shhh don’t give them any ideas!
I mean, there’s such a thing as being addicted to porn. I fall to see how you get such an addiction without looking at it
Yes, but there’s such a thing as being addicted to sex, too, and pretty much any pleasurable activity. It’s generally pretty rare.
Causation vs. Correlation. Porn addicts have obviously watched porn. But that doesn’t mean that watching porn causes porn addiction.
It’s like saying drug addicts have obviously used drugs, but it’s only correlated to their addiction
Not really. Drugs do have psychoactive components that can, provably and physiologically, cause addiction with a single use. Opioids famously have been observed to cause neural changes in rats consistent with addiction after a single dosage.
It’s more like, gambling. Millions of people gamble, a portion of them have a gambling addiction. Does that mean that gambling causes addiction? well, obviously, yes, but also, no. Or else how to explain the millions of people who can even take a vacation in Las Vegas but don’t feel a constant compulsion to gamble all of their money away. Equally, almost every single human being has sex in their lifetimes, but only a small portion of the population suffers a compulsion to have sex constantly. Does sex causes addiction? the question is in itself way too simplistic and disingenuous. Addiction involves so many other factors that it can’t be reduced to “being exposed to porn causes addiction”.
I think it’s more of a continuum between purely psychological and purely chemical, and most things fall somewhere in the grade.
Marijuana is a drug that does not cause physical addiction from one use. Yet people get addicted to it, even though most don’t. Would you say using marijuana causes addiction?
So, you didn’t read my comment. Noted.
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These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.
I often decline their cookie bull, they’ll just keep asking with every new page i load from that website. Preferably with a pop-up that covers 2/3rd of the screen.
I think but haven’t done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:
- go to website, receive prompt
- decline all non-required cookies
- go to next page within website, receive prompt again
- decline all but functional cookies (or similar wording
- go to next page, no prompt.
You’re probably right about this.
All this on news sites and when you refuse everything you get into a paywall
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This sounds like it’s going to further erode people’s trust in the health systems and the advice of doctors.
The people that are already not following doctors orders are not going to do it regardless
They should preface the warnings with something like “Texas lawmakers require us to say the following:”
If you’re a resident of Texas, please be aware that watching porn is bad for you, jacking off will make you blind and that you’re a filthy person for coming here. If you’re from the rest of the world, why are you reading this instead of watching porn?
Here I am, unzipped, and a little bruised, but standing at attention, and you’re kink-shaming me?
Lucky me - that’s my fetish too! Who needs porn!
Username… checks out?
Well that was more a friction thing, but if the oversized shoe fits…
Masturbation makes hair grow on the palms of your hands - it’s science people.
I heard something along the lines of your hand becoming pregnant in the afterlife. I think he was some Middle Eastern Muslim (don’t recall if the Muslim part is true), so it’s basically fact.
/s
I had to re-read because a Middle-Earther Muslim doesn’t seem very common
I love how republican law makers who want small government and non governmental interference and stop interfering the second it’s something they are against.
Really shows their true colors. They don’t give a shit about small government, they LOVE government interference. They just don’t want you to stop them using slavery, they just don’t want you to know about practices in slaughter houses, they just want to be able to pollute every part of the world except where they live and they just want to be able to tell you how to live your life.
Is that so much to ask?
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The smallest form of government is a dictatorship.
They oppose communism, of course they don’t want small government
American Taliban
Y’all-Qaeda
That’s fucking hilarious
I don’t understand how Texas expects to enforce such a law, unless these companies have physical offices in the state.
For Texas, possibly by having vigilantes kidnap them from other states (or in the case of Aylo (PornHub), across international borders) with reward money attached. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point.
Shit state gonna shit state. What an embarrassment
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Crappy article. They quoted the popup but didn’t show it at all. I just wanted to see what it was.
If only they’d told you the sites to visit!
Remember when people on the Internet generally universally agreed that it was bad when the government (or anyone) regulated or censored the Internet?
I want those times back. It isn’t any better whether it is because of left wing causes like “misinformation” or “hate speech” or right wing ones like the thing this article is about or “piracy” or “terrorist propaganda”.
It’s not censored, it’s a warning label you can click past.
Internet porn addiction is a genuinely harmful thing.
This is why I also mentioned “regulated”, not just “censored”.
In my teen years I was convinced that the government shouldn’t have any business telling us what to do on the Internet and thought that that is what the future would be like, that we were then living in a temporary situation where governments were still trying to do so but eventually the Internet would win.
That turned out different. I really wish I knew how to help achieve a utopia of free worldwide communication.
I’m sorry, I’m having a hard time find porn addiction, or even sex addiction, in my DSM-V. Could you tell me which page(s) it’s on?
As you’re undoubtedly aware, DSM-V is a decade old and the next revision is set to include improved criteria on dependencies (including non-drug ones) and obsessive-compulsive spectrum (which this could likely fall under), as well as adding other “new” conditions like hoarding.
So, not an addiction?
Most sex researchers have noted that actual compulsive sexual behaviors are very, very rare, and that what many people think of as a porn “addiction” comes more from a place of values judgement–especially religious values, whether they recognize them as such or not–rather than from the behavior being significantly outside of the norm in any way, or even damaging to the person.
Mormons–“Fight the New Drug”–have done a fantastic job of convincing people that porn and sex are terrible, and that any consumption at all is problematic.
“I’m not addicted, I can quit whenever I want.”
I hear that all the time. Keep denying the downsides of porn.
