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Youth social media bans should raise privacy concerns for everyone (www.wearequeeraf.com)
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We now already have a few generations with plenty of members who started watching online porn when they were technically too young for that, and we can now tell that this hasn't harmed them.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Prove it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can't prove a negative, that's not how experiments and hypothesis works.

    If you're making a claim that early exposure causes harm, you're the one that has to prove it via the following steps:

    • Set up criterias for assessment
    • Decide on a test methodology
    • Collect data
    • Analyze results and draw conclusions
    • Publish for peer review to make sure your methodology was appropriate

    Congratulations, you have just been taught how to do science

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    You can't prove a negative, that's not how experiments and hypothesis works.

    Yet you completely ignored studies like this from the National Library of Medicine

    Excerpt:

    Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences. The reward and gratification system adapts by releasing large amounts of dopamine, but tolerance develops, requiring increasingly higher doses, quantities, and intensity to achieve arousal

    So we know it behaves like a drug, the study goes into further detail how it affects adolescents — and here you are saying 'no it isn't actually that bad'.

    Ask a heroin addict about his quality of life and his answer depends on his last hit.

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