> 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)
distribution mechanisms and the style of porn available has significantly changed in the past 20 or so years (when i was 13). so its not fair to compare then and now. the current situation has some noteable differences.
no phones back then to stream full videos in the playground or on the school bus or in lessons or at work in the toilets or on a bus to work etc etc. needed a laptop or a porn mag or your parents being out to use the computer.
there was been a significant shift towards SEO based production as well around 10/15 years ago. which meant more “stepdad and stepdaughter” [0] or “stepbrother and stepsister” videos. there’s the more hardcore stuff i.e. where a woman is being slapped, thrown around, choked and generally treated pretty nastily. that used to be “niche” stuff, now it’s fairly mainstream [1]
i don’t remember seeing either of those ^ classes of porn when i was 13.
[0]: there was a brief period where it was “dad and daughter” filling up all the feeds on every site and the sites quickly noped the fuck outta that and forced video name changes (whether it was regulatory or not i dunno)
> A veteran porn star said in a recent documentary about porn that, in the 1990s, it constituted “making love on a bed,” and having “lovey dovey sex”. But in 2010, researchers analysed more than 300 porn scenes and found that 88% contained physical aggression. Most of the perpetrators were male, and their targets female, and the latter’s most common response to aggression was to show pleasure or respond neutrally.
2017 — but links to a bunch of studies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170926-is-porn-harmfu...
> 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.
—
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)