We shouldn't be discussing how to most effectively infringe upon people's personal liberties before first discussing whether there's one iota of evidence that these liberties are to blame for extremely serious issues you mentioned. The root cause of these problems is almost certainly a lot closer to the general state of economic and social hardship than porn.
Of course it's a lot easier for those in power to divert attention to a moral panic like porn instead of acknowledging that our economic system and core values are making people depressed and hopeless to the point that they're becoming incapable of performing the one thing they've been optimizing for over millions of years of evolution - reproducing.
You sound like you have a lot of complaints about the world and a lot of will for some finger pointing, evidence backed cause&effect and staying on topic be damned
> Watching porn has been linked to a multitude of problems for individuals and wider society – but for every study maligning it, another clears its name. Often, evidence is mixed, and the research methods and sample sizes of studies have their limitations.
> Will the future of ever-more immersive porn may bring with it more risks? It’s too early to say.
> The question of cause and effect comes up a lot with research into porn: does porn attract more people with sexually aggressive tendencies, those who are in unhappy relationships, those with smaller reward systems in their brain and those with sexual addiction – or does it cause these things? It’s a tricky area to research – but until the answers are more definitive, the evidence so far suggests that the likelihood that porn has a negative effect very much depends on the individual consuming it.
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yes, the ideal would be to not infringe on the liberties of anyone who doesn’t suffer from negative effects of it.
but we don’t live in a perfect world where there’s infinite resources :shrugs: so… apparently the trade off is age verification.
that’s the sacrifice we make as a society. we sacrifice some “rights” for the greater good, and the right to watch porn without having to do an age verification check is a bit of a first world privileged one if you ask me.
(i say that as someone who consumes a lot of porn and is personally dreading the upcoming uk age checks. but what’s good for society is not what i want most of the time)
Of course it's a lot easier for those in power to divert attention to a moral panic like porn instead of acknowledging that our economic system and core values are making people depressed and hopeless to the point that they're becoming incapable of performing the one thing they've been optimizing for over millions of years of evolution - reproducing.