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Zopieuxtoday at 2:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

I cannot care less what (legal) porn content people consume in the intimacy of their room. I cannot understand being prude about this. Like all things, over-use is unhealthy, but I have yet to see studies proving the societal damage caused by porn. Before you ask: the loneliness epidemic (which intuitively translates to more porn consumption) is just a symptom of people losing a "third place" to socialize, or not having their own place. Those are rooted in the shitty economic landscape we're in, and uncontrolled urban sprawl with no public transit.

Gambling/betting though? Overwhelming societal damage with basically no upside beyond the ghouls in charge. Regulate this shit to death, tyvm.


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theorchidtoday at 2:50 PM

> but I have yet to see studies proving the societal damage caused by porn.

It doesn't necessarily have to be harmful for it to be stigmatized by society.

b40d-48b2-979etoday at 2:43 PM

   and uncontrolled urban sprawl with no public transit.
*sub-urban sprawl. If you're sprawling, you've exited "urban".