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Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data (mashable.com)
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Now, 404 Media reports that Quittr leaked data about hundreds of thousands of users' masturbation habits as well as lied about its security issues.

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[–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

A lot of things take decades to make it into the DSM even after identified and labeled by professionals, and a lot of things take decades to be removed after professionals say it's not a pathology.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. The DSM isn’t the final word here. Obviously any superstimulus will have extreme addictive potential. There’s no reason why pornography would be any different than, say, junk food in this regard.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    These are great points and are important to consider for mental and sexual health. I also think that the risks accompanying age verification’s mass surveillance and capitalism’s exploitation of America’s institutional sexual repression have a far greater and more harmful impact than porn and masturbation.

    Of course, it’s not a bad thing that there is support for people in the form of this app, but I fear that legal policy is expanding to suppress sexuality without consent. For example, data from period tracking apps has already been used to persecute women who seek abortions. If the extreme religious right in America gets their way, could data from anti-masturbation apps or age verification services be used to help prove you accessed “illegal” pornography?

    It sounds insane, because it is, but I believe this is where we’re headed in a fascist, sexually repressive America. :/

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    That's who we've always been. The boomers and silent generation had a glimmer but we're given treats that required toeing the line, treats they guaranteed their children and grandchildren would never see, perhaps in ignorance/myopia, many of sheer selfishness and malicious intent.

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