Comment by mdp2021

2 months ago

Alchool is poison. If you handle it maturely, it remains an intoxicant.

Chocolate should be eaten with restraint. If you handle it maturely, it remains something not that comparable to alchool.

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SpicyLemonZest  2 months ago

Right. The question is whether porn is poisonous, and many people (myself included) genuinely feel the answer is yes. Mature, responsible adults can often ration their consumption enough to avoid too many negative effects - as they do with alcohol - but even adults sometimes fail and for children it's much harder.

  • yhavr  2 months ago

    Well, social networks and *-toks are also poisonous for your dopaminergic system. As well as certain classes of games, I guess here's a spectrum. But the best option I see is to educate _everyone_ including kids about mental hygiene. Rather than enforcing unenforceable restrictions.

    • mdp2021  2 months ago

      > educate _everyone_ including kids about mental hygiene

      Hear, hear!

      The most important skills are underrated in so many societies.

  • mdp2021  2 months ago

    > is poisonous

    With all due, some may want to advise you to check into that. It could be that it does strange things because of the way you are wired.

    Please note (about similar corners) what I have already written in the page, "for some it brings a satisfaction and this is an outlet valve that reduces adverse social effects; for some it is a kindler and it will increase adverse social effects".

    To some it will be the opposite of a poison - it will be constructive. It will depend.

    This cannot be said of alchool and similar.

    • SpicyLemonZest  2 months ago

      The idea of porn as an outlet valve just sounds to me like the self-medication hypothesis for alcoholism. I have no doubt there's people who watch lots of porn and believe that it's helping them with some problem or another, but I'm more skeptical that it actually is helping and a lot more skeptical that it's so helpful as to make up for the negative consequences.

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    • yhavr  2 months ago

      Well, doesn't porn-ish entertaiment fuck up ones reward system? I'm not talking of porn specificly, but about a range of products that turn people into "dopamine rats", constantly pressing a button for more bursts of novelty?

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