False analogy but I do agree we can’t tell for sure if its down. I’m assuming any friction added will reduce access to some degree though.
If kids watching porn is illegal, and providing porn to children is illegal, then its good that we are regulating the legal markets. I don’t mind if some fraction of kids decide to find porn via unregulated means.
I think right now the “are you 18?” banners are a joke, and have been for at least 20 years. Restricting porn sites properly or banning them outright, along with educating young people on the risks of pornography, are good ideas to me.
If you don’t like the privacy intrusion, get your porn from an unregulated place or stop watching it.
I was a teenager and the option of not watching it would never have occurred to me. The idea that people accidentally stumble across it and then get hooked is laughable.
And I don’t mean adult media uploaded to sites which serve other media, I mean bespoke adult sites. You don’t end up there by accident. Anyone who goes there and sees the splash screen will just open another tab and go somewhere less restrictive.
Maybe you should reflect a bit on why you watching porn was some sort of destined even in this world, and what effects it might have on you socially, mentally, and physically.
And pornography has existed since… how long ago? Replacing human contact with technology surely hasn’t caused problems before. Let’s also put a gigantic profit motive behind the technology while we are at it.
Not certain this is true.
Brits are watching porn on non-age verification sites, which don’t have stats that they have to share with
Brits are bypassing age verification through other means (like VPN).
This is like when America bragged that COVID numbers were low. Because we stopped testing. Funny how that works.
False analogy but I do agree we can’t tell for sure if its down. I’m assuming any friction added will reduce access to some degree though.
If kids watching porn is illegal, and providing porn to children is illegal, then its good that we are regulating the legal markets. I don’t mind if some fraction of kids decide to find porn via unregulated means.
I think right now the “are you 18?” banners are a joke, and have been for at least 20 years. Restricting porn sites properly or banning them outright, along with educating young people on the risks of pornography, are good ideas to me.
If you don’t like the privacy intrusion, get your porn from an unregulated place or stop watching it.
If you don’t like porn, don’t watch it. Stop forcing your ideals on others.
I was a teenager and the option of not watching it would never have occurred to me. The idea that people accidentally stumble across it and then get hooked is laughable.
And I don’t mean adult media uploaded to sites which serve other media, I mean bespoke adult sites. You don’t end up there by accident. Anyone who goes there and sees the splash screen will just open another tab and go somewhere less restrictive.
Maybe you should reflect a bit on why you watching porn was some sort of destined even in this world, and what effects it might have on you socially, mentally, and physically.
Teenagers get horny. It’s not deep. Humans being horny existed long before the internet
And pornography has existed since… how long ago? Replacing human contact with technology surely hasn’t caused problems before. Let’s also put a gigantic profit motive behind the technology while we are at it.