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Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th (theverge.com)
Tumblr, the underground social media site known for its pornographic content and tight-knit community, will be instituting a major change to its guidelines in a couple of weeks. The company said in a blog post today that it will permanently ban adult content from its platform on December 17th. The company flatly stated that "adult content will no longer be allowed here." The Verge reports: Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations. The exceptions include nude classical statues and political protests that feature nudity. The new guidelines exclude text, so erotica remains permitted. Illustrations and art that feature nudity are still okay -- so long as sex acts aren't depicted -- and so are breastfeeding and after-birth photos.
After December 17th, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying them that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community. "Blogs that have been either self-flagged or flagged by us as 'explicit' per our old policy and before December 17, 2018 will still be overlaid with a content filter when viewing these blogs directly," the blog post reads. "While some of the content on these blogs may now be in violation of our policies and will be actioned accordingly, the blog owners may choose to post content that is within our policies in the future, so we'd like to provide that option..."
After December 17th, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying them that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community. "Blogs that have been either self-flagged or flagged by us as 'explicit' per our old policy and before December 17, 2018 will still be overlaid with a content filter when viewing these blogs directly," the blog post reads. "While some of the content on these blogs may now be in violation of our policies and will be actioned accordingly, the blog owners may choose to post content that is within our policies in the future, so we'd like to provide that option..."
Why would they put the gun to their head and pull the trigger?
Yeah.
Its a fundamental issue with this country.
Our standards on sex and violence really need to reverse.
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Honestly, what other use does tumblr have?
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Nourishment ... actually male ones can do that too, but that requires a different hormonal makeup than the human male normally produces. Fruit bat males, on the other hand...
By state law in NY, both are identical -- toplessness is legal for all genders. Also, why is my being Jewish supposed to be construed as some sort of primitive insult?
Or the US needs to split up and let the Bible Belt/flyoveria go their own way and leave more open-minded places at peace...
One of the nice things about Tumblr is that it served as a nice home for exactly the sort of people who liked the kind of content you would often find on Tumblr. If you're not familiar with the website, it has a reputation for featuring the kind of erotica that tends not to be published on more mainstream porn sites. So now you're going to get a lot of furries, adult-baby fetishists, and all manner of other sexual oddities looking for new homes. That's right folks, 40-year old men that like jerking off to erotic My Little Pony art, coming soon to a web community near you.
If the government should subsidize anything it's Tumblr and 4chan. You'd be hard pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it keeps those people from being somewhere else for most of the day.
*Now* where will I go for porn on the Internet? I guess it's back to looking at extra-curvy pieces of driftwood.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Can we get a ruling on traps?
When a woman becomes pregnant, their breasts produce milk. When their child is born, that child feeds off that milk. The nipple is the location that the child latches on to in order to suck out the milk.
That clear things up for you?
I wonder why they don't just have an adult section - break the site up into 2 aspects. Otherwise, I'm sure tumblr will simply be a thing of the past.
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It passed the House by a vote of 388 to 25 and the Senate 97 to 2. This appears to be a bipartisan screwing. Then again, I would not expect someone that chooses to use derogatory names for political parties to be someone that bothers with facts. Partisan narratives is all that matters.
Uhm, It passed 97-2 in the Senate with half of the Nay votes being Republican and 388-25 in the house with 13 (Over Half) of the Nays being Republican.... So basic Math would tell you that it had MORE Democrat support then Republican......
The bill passed the senate 97 - 2 - exactly one Republican voted against, and one Democrat.
It had no-one from your supposed two "parties" that would dare stand against it. If Hillary had been president you'd have exactly the same bill...
If you aren't libertarian by now, this is the bill that should have made that happen. Instead you are spewing partisan nonsense just trying to earn points for your "side". - do you even care about the bill? About the tens of thousands of women negatively impacted?
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You're living in the past. These days it's the "progressives" that fight porn too because "muh objectification" or whatever. The whole SESTA shitshow was advocated for by social activist groups and BOTH parties voted for it largely unanimously.
So now you're going to get a lot of furries, adult-baby fetishists, and all manner of other sexual oddities looking for new homes.
What a giant opportunity for someone to scoop up the 99.9% of Tumblr users posting erotica, and quickly switch them to a new platform...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
and games. Duh.
Thank the Repukes for SESTA/FOSTA.
No biggie, the democrats will repeal it when they take over, right? Just like they did with asset forfeiture, mandatory sentencing, NAFTA, the patriot act, war in Afghanistan, and the entire middle east. Yeah, that's the ticket. Democrats will fix everything.
*sigh* So sad to see this tribal bullshit is still so effective
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
for making the world a more boring place again
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While it seems apparent many people here aren't aware of it, there are huge troves of content on Tumblr which isn't affected by this in the least.
I'm not saying this is the right decision - or the wrong decision - but the idea that Tumblr exists just for porn is silly.
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Which is why the US needs to be run into the ground by both parties. Weaker or non-existent Federal government = more choice of political systems for people to live under.
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and there is no place for sex in our culture...?!!
Anyone can turn on the TV and watch people getting shot, beaten, raped, etc ... and there are very few people who say anything about it. Sure, it's all acting and fiction, but it sure looks real.
But a woman accidentally flashes a nipple during a Super Bowl half-time show - something babies see several times a day - and the country has a melt down - "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" or they find it "offensive".
Most of this country is a bunch of juveniles that really needs to get a grip and grow-up.
No biggie, the democrats will repeal it when they take over, right?
They voted for it. Why would they repeal their own legislation?
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Sorry, maybe you didn't notice that I was responding to the person singling out the republicans.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nonono
I am already in one of the more saner places in Florida.
I do not need it to get worse.
You can shoot people here, claim self defense, and the prosecution has to prove otherwise.
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Why not just split off the content in question and prevent the app from accessing those forums to satisfy Nanny Apple's sense of decency? The content can still stay on the desktop site, mobile site, and be available in the Android app since Google is not as much of a bunch of censoring assholes.
Being anti free speech and anti liberty isn't exactly open minded.
Don't forget cat pictures!
Assuming reciprocal travel/work agreements between the fragmented parts of the US, you could still move out of Florida, right?
lactation?
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I'm anarchist. I'm honestly hoping and praying for divisions in the US to tear the country apart. If the US is broken up into 5 or 10 different countries
How does *50* different countries grab you? Because that is what states were supposed to be, independent entities.
Become libertarian and push for more stuff to get pushed down to state control rather than the pipe dream of a quasi-totalitarian federal government ever ceding control entirely.
It's already close to that way in some regards with things like drug laws, We just need to push for more aspects like that, from a state level (worked for drug laws, should for other things as well).
Incidentally this is also why as many people as possible should support and use digital currencies like BitCoin so that banking regulations cannot be used as a means of control.
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... people have a titty fit at the sight of a tenth part of an areola.
Ah yes, nipple-gate, that horrible cataclysm that left behind it a wasteland of thousands of American children psychologically scarred for life.
Jealousy, probably. Everyone knows that kosher nipple is the best nipple.
...my wrist!
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Like that would ever happen.
The south would lock their borders so hard. You won't be able to get in or out.
And the strong possibility that I would be arrested for sedition or being heretical.
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I thought this was Apple. The Tumblr app got banned from the App Store because of child porn, and they couldn't figure out a way to just remove the illegal stuff so decided to ban everything pornographic.
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Hmm...from other posts of the voting records, look like Democrats supported that law just as much as the Republicans did.
Seems both parties are as against pr0n as the other...sad.
Morality shouldn't be legislated.
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You think there's a problem with the prosecution having to prove a crime? That's exactly how it's supposed to work!
We'd also still likely have slavery in this nation. A key moment in the consolidation of federal power in our nation was the civil war.
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So... you are in favor of bringing back the Confederate States of America? That turned out so well last time.
Can they ban breast feeding and after birth photos too? Leave those to sites dedicated to them.
I have the impression that the 'more open-minded places' are as closed minded as the other lot. Just my perspective from across the ocean. Here it is the same really: so called liberals are just assholes with other set of prejudice than the right wing sort. Not sure how we can get out of this dilemma.
I'd have been all for letting the South leave in 1860, then embargoing the CSA and financing a slave revolt. The problem with the Civil War is that the same people running the slave system ended up in charge after Reconstruction ended. If the rich slavers had ended up being expropriated or simply executed, then their legacy wouldn't have stuck with the US for the next 150 years in the form of Jim Crow and a generally draconian legal system by Western standards.
I think it's fascinating how feminists and bible thumpers wind up advocating for the same thing.
I wasn't that deeply hooked into Tumblr, but today all I did was reblog a post with a screen capture of the ban, and delete everything else.
Have fun fighting it out with Pinterest and Etsy, that's all the content you're going to have left!
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
It's not fascinating at all. It's expected. Both the feminists and Bible-thumpers are *OMG!* American, and have been indoctrinated to be prudish and Puritanical. They're two sides of the same miserable culture.
I thought the line between curation and censorship involved whether the interfering party had A. a government-granted monopoly or B. market power (as defined in antitrust theory) over the dissemination of information. To what extent does Tumblr have either, other than sharing a parent company with RF spectrum licensee Verizon Wireless? The Larry Flynt editorial you linked mentions Google, Facebook, and Apple, which are far more likely to have market power than Tumblr.
A nipple is a harmless organ. In fact, a positive one, since it's a source of a life-giving fluid. It's not even a hand or foot, it's soft, squishy, and can't be used to beat anyone up. Its only two purposes in life are nourishment and enjoyment. There's no rational argument to ban images of female nipples.
A gun on the other hand, has only two uses: to maim or kill. OK, you can hunt for food with one too, but most of the guns in "gun porn" ain't hunting rifles.
Which is what the Articles of Confederation were, which failed, and which brought us our current constitution.
We already tried that but Abraham Lincoln sent the union army to invade us.
Hum, let's see, who owns Tumblr? Why, it's Yahoo, isn't it? Is anyone surprised by this? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone....?
any congress critter who voted against that bill was going to get hammered during reelection with "soft on crime" adverts. The two who voted against it are both completely "safe". Short of a dead girl or a live boy neither of them have to be afraid of the "Willie Horton" effect
Still, I was a bit shocked Bernie and Warren went in for it.
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and kick the right wing "Clinton Democrats" out. You'll be there, right? 'cause the left wing tried to primary Pelosi and got shot down last time...
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"Let me throw out an alternate opinion, one which I haven't seen in the previous 100+ comments."
Just highlights what a very small minority you find yourself in.
STDs, recklessness, and unwanted can be solved by education on birth control, consent, and condom use. The attitude in many parts of the USA is not to talk about it at all, rather than teaching safety.
I saw far too many studies of how damaging it is to the human male.
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I haven't seen any credible studies at all so if you have anything, I'd like to read it. There is a lot of pop-culture conjecture but very little scientific support. I do remember reading a study about the lack of high quality porn studies though. From what I remember, most studies were non-experimental (literary analysis etc) the few that were experimental were low quality (poor design, small sample etc).
You could shrink the US Federal government and give back all that power to the states, so the USA worked like the European Union. Like how America was designed by the founding fathers.
America IS being run into the ground by both parties. At the current rate of deficit spending I expect America to default on their debts in 2040.
I thought that's what tumblr was for? From what I read, it's a hookup/one night stand site and a place for prostitutes.
There is no practical difference (actions speak louder than words) between Democrat and Republican. A small but well financed group of Republican supporting "Democrats" (Pelosi, Hillary, Obama etc) has taken control of the party and ensures that ONLY the Republican Agenda sees the light of day. The sole purpose of the Democrat party is to bottle up the progressives and socialists and prevent them from having a voice in American Federal Politics.
The prosecution ALWAYS has to prove you're guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That's the very foundation of liberal principles of justice and law. The only thing Stand Your Ground does is say you have no legal obligation to retreat and may meet force with force in any place you're legally permitted to be.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Why would you think that 50 individual quasi-totalitarian states with minimal oversight are better than one federal government which has everyone watching it?
There is a huge reason - with the federal government, everyone may be watching it but - MNO ONE CAN SEE ANYTHING. It is too vast, too far removed (physically and in all other ways that matter) to truly observe.
Something managed by a state can be pretty big also. But it changes the dynamic when ANYONE can pretty easily go visit the people who run everything, can go talk or protest or whatever. It's all more local people and not Graft Central so few states would get people coming from all over to get a piece of that tasty government pie...
And that itself points to a big reason, that the sums involved are less and so the reward for control is less, distributed across 50 states instead of one giant winner-takes-literally-all lump.
The only aspect of the Trump presidency that has disheartened my slightly is that even as people continue to cast Trump as the most demonic force politics has ever seen - even in this case they STILL demand the federal government retain more and more control... it's because of the sad delusion they think they can take it all back in short order. I wonder how the second four years of Trump may change minds on that score...
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I'm not disagreeing with or disparaging your opinion, but I don't think a change that alienates a statistically significant percentage of their user-base is the best way to go about it.
They could add something like Google's "safe search". Instead of forcibly removing content, they could simply flag it into different categories and allow users to configure their own profiles to specify "Don't show me X". If they're doing this because Apple is kicking the Tumblr app off the store, I imagine Apple would reconsider if the iPhone version of the app enforced certain "safe search" features.
I know content classification is not "easy", but if they can find porn well enough to remove it, it's not any harder to flag it instead of removing it. A feature like that might make (almost) everyone happy. It would work well for cases like yours, for Apple's app store, for the users that want to read/post porn (unless they're Apple fan-boys who ditched their computer after getting an iPad ;-), etc. I imagine the true prudes simply wouldn't be happy because everyone else was happy, but you know, the needs of the many...
They should have simply restricted it more. Better age gate, or something.
That site appeals to a very very wide subset of interests, there's stuff there you can't get elsewhere and from my understanding, it's the majority of the traffic to the site.
Honestly there's such weird stuff there, it's great to make you feel normal, no matter how off you think you are, there will be stuff on there too make you feel very very normal.
You're begging the question of whether or not knowledge about sex is, in and of itself, a bad thing.
Here's a hint. It's not. Knowledge is power, and an educated population is an asset. Suggesting that an education in the way in which your own body functions is anything other than a good thing is extraordinary. Further, your argument is nothing more than a "think of the children" rant, in which you assume that knowledge of sex is damaging, and proceed from there.
I generally associate Tumblr with softcore porn. Like suicide girls with fewer tattoos. Wonder what else it's used for...
Underwear advertisements must be a dreadful minefield for you too.
Anyway, you saw "far too many" studies on the damaging nature of the images to which you found yourself too often inadvertently exposed. Perhaps you could provide a link to one or two of them? I've never found any.
No-one would begrudge you the method by which you've found satisfaction in a life too much undermined by distractions - but I really, really don't think you're in anything but a very small minority. Learning to give and take has nothing to do with "pornography", a term that doesn't even have a useful working definition in any case, and has everything to do with growing up. And education.
Good luck in your life, I hope you stay happy. But banning pornography, a move I venture to imagine you would be in support of, will do nothing to improve people's lives.
and there is having your mind so open that your brain fall out and all kind of crap comes in. Complete 100% free speech and liberty means 100% anarchy and rule of the mob or the strongest. That is why we have series of law curtailing both in various fashion in all countries. The question (the answer to which is not *objective* but rather cultural and subjective) is where do you put the limit and what do you enforce. And as such understanding that "some people put the limit at different point" is far more open minded than a blind mantra of "any limit is anti free speech" (especially since the one not liking those limit are the same one wanting to make the life hard for lgbt and remove protection from them - the same way they used to enjoy oppressing people with a skin color different than white).
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Porn is fantasy and not meant to be taken seriously. If porn is interfering with your relationship, or ability to have one, then you're doing it wrong. If you're indulging in porn, you're doing it wrong. If you have little self-control when it comes to porn, chances are you have little self-control in other parts of your life, too. Discriminating against porn is just making it a convenient scapegoat. That's especially true here in the USA, where we love to demonize porn, which results in a paradox where our porn is just terrible, and we indulge in it because we know it's terrible.
This is why I have such a love/hate relationship with porn. On one hand, I like what it represents, both physically and emotionally. On the other hand, I can't stand most mainstream porn, because it's often boring, stupid, and strongly emphasizes only the physical aspect of sex. It's too shallow, fantastic, over-the-top (like CGI in movies), tends to overplay the "naughty" angle, and it hardly ever looks like anyone is enjoying what they're doing.
I'm an artist, but I cut my teeth on comic strips and comic books. To me, story, character development, and humor are very important. I draw lots of porn, but I try to make my stuff more creative, and it usually focuses on committed couples enjoying the finer parts of their relationship. Alas, this seems to be a bit uncommon, and it's probably why I have so many fans, despite the fact that I have little spare time and don't post artwork very often. Given that my content is, in my opinion, a bit better than the typical hedonistic trash, I certainly don't agree with the decision to ban porn just because other people, arguably even most people, do it "wrong".
The porn we tend to like is a symptom of more fundamental cultural issues. Discriminating against adult-rated content will not fix that, and it just reminds me of all those web sites that try to enforce quality standards (which never works and always causes the death of the site). In your case, I think you just finally realized that the kinds of porn you used to like... just sucks. Good for you, but that doesn't justify making it harder for me to responsibly enjoy what I like (or try to fix it if I don't).
Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks.
Yeah, but that's a culture problem, not a porn problem. Cue the movie with the heroine with no zits or wrinkles, slashing bad guys left and right with a katana, and then emerges from the scuffle with perfect hair and all her makeup intact. That's also why I hate most mainstream movies!
Sorry, education has been tried. People who have advocated that have had free reign for twenty years and all that's happened is that STDs, recklessness, kids being born without two committed parents, innocence lost, etc. have increased to epidemic levels.
Unsafe acts are not safe. For example birth control is only 99.9% effective. So how long does it take the average sex starved teenager to engage in 1000 sex acts? Three years? Five Years? That's mean time between failure, and means a sexually active female has almost 100% chance of an unwanted pregnancy. Condoms in the field are only 85% effective. That means 15 out of 100 people who use condoms are vulnerable to infection every year.
So we can talk about it, but sex crazed adults don't want to talk about facts, they want to indoctrinate children to have them follow the same unsafe practices that are causing the problems.
You're doing anything but OK. Due to not teaching children about sex, you have extremely high rates of unwanted pregnancies, teen STD's, parents denying their children HPV vaccines and other societal ills which countries which teach children about sexuality do not.
You advocate keeping kids "innocent", and in the same breath explains why that is impossible - children know about sex, and that it is nothing bad. They're humans, and humans have survived until now by having sex. It's nothing kids learn about from seeing Tumblr images. It's something humans know how to do on their own.
What humans, and kids, do not know on their own is how to have sex safely, and how to avoid STD's and unwanted pregnancies. Keeping kids "innocent" simply means keeping kids in the dark about how to stay safe, and therefore the "innocent" kids get pregnant and get STD's.
Your standards really need to reverse. Really badly. Kids need to learn more about sex at an earlier age, or they will continue to have "innocent" sex, ending in pregnancies, diseases and shattered families.
So, you find that there is too little porn which actually explores the way real world relationships work, and actually teaches how to have sex in a meaningful way. That is a good observation, and coincides with what I find.
And then you are happy that one of the few sites on the web where alternative approaches to pornography, like the one you lament is missing, are explored.
You're not making any sense what so ever.
As an act of civic courage I'd like to say the following
1) I look at Tumblr porn regularly. Actually it is in bursts; sometimes an hour at a time for days on end, other times weeks will go by with no porn. My internal state is reflected in my internet usage. I'm fascinated by the categories and what they mean. There should be more academic research but the academics I know say any publication on the subject is a death sentence professionally. And there is clearly a lot of Russian/foreign influence pedaling and hidden ideology on Tumblr. The new owners want clean hands and they are willing to pay the financial price. I both applaud them and regret what we are loosing.
2) Google searches for porn are revealing. Hit "Safe search off" and check it out. But no Tumblr material shows up unless you specifically ask with a search like "Tumblr, bukakke (sic), interracial (or just IR), and trannie" The results are amazing but largely hidden from the average viewer. This is how censorship now works. And maybe it isn't a bad idea for the corporation and the viewers who don't want to see the stuff.
3) I want to watch it but am deeply troubled by the idea that 11 year-olds are being mentally and emotionally formed by this stuff.; Ask the kids. It is always "Well, some of my friends..."; ask "Do your parents know?" and they give you the "Are you kidding" look. So if you are an adult with kids, ask- privately. Especially the kids of your own gender. The results are everywhere and totally invisible to most adults. Tumblr Ana sites are hugely informative- and dangerous; troubled 18 year-olds with daddy issues know how to suck dick like a pro (and they are smart, thoughtful half-formed little humans). Tumblr legitimizes everything.
4) Congresspeople in both parties are as troubled as I am. I have no idea if this is good legislation or not, but something needs to be done here. How do we balance the need to protect kids, my right to watch all the porn I want and the privacy of people like me? I'm not sure but age has made me a lot more humble about the problems of honorable people grappling with issues like this.
...they got tired of being in business and having users, eh?
This is like thepiratebay announcing they will only serve legal torrents :)
"Sex crazed adults" -- sounds like you either need to get laid, or are a priest. Go back to your church and preach there, Father.
As far as teen pregnancy and STDs, their rates are typically highest in US states in the Bahhble Beilt where sex-ed is seriously restricted and sex is stigmatized.
So how long does it take the average sex starved teenager to engage in 1000 sex acts?
Did you try reading that sentence back to yourself before posting it? Did you look up the meaning of the verb "to starve"?
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Lucky you. Not everybody has that. In fact, it's a meme here that most Slashdot readers do not have that.
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There are plenty of Usenet providers out there.
None of which are bundled in the price of home Internet access. This puts Usenet behind a $75 to $120 per year paywall in addition to what you already pay your ISP per month and per gigabyte for Internet access. (Source: "Best Usenet providers of 2018" by Desire Athow)
Protip: 9 times out of 10, when you read or hear someone discussing "State's rights", it's a copout.
"I don't know if gays should be able to marry... Let the states decide!" This approach conveniently lets the politician not take any kind of position on the actual issue.
Obviously, there are some issues the Federal government doesn't need to be involved in. Those issues are never the ones discussed. It's always a thinly-veiled attempt to get the federal government out of areas they do need to oversee - environmental protection, healthcare, consumer financial protection, etc. Issues which did not exist in a recognizable way in 1776. The Founding Fathers did not write a Gospel with 100% infallible prophecies. What they did was establish a modifiable framework for government, knowing that it will need to be adjusted at some point.
If you have little self-control when it comes to porn, chances are you have little self-control in other parts of your life, too.
Your post is on point except for this one line. Humans display addictive behaviour for all manner of enjoyment often from something that can be as simple as an endorphin release. People get addicted to attention on social media due to this mechanism. They get addicted to substances that affect the mind (e.g. sugar) in the same way. Now porn itself firstly gives you that same sensation by itself, but couple it with the additional benefit of being often associated with an orgasm and you have and incredible addictive power.
Having no self-control when it comes to porn is no different from any other clinical addiction and by extension has no relation to self-control in other parts of your life.
Sorry, but childbirth isn't friendly to most women's bodies, and you don't see any porn stars with stretch marks.
Not only do you see plenty of porn stars with stretch marks. Not all people end up with bad stretch marks or other "unfriendly" effects of childbirth, but you're ignoring that pregnancy porn is an entire fetish genre in itself.
That you chose to seek out the perfect and the "impossible" is on you. Personally I like tumblr for the amateur, real, and "possible" content.
There's literally no difference between this law and the law that says you don't need to try to run away from people who break into your home to rape and kill you. None at all. Also if you want to live somewhere with a disarmed populace may I suggest one of the countries with the highest rates of gun control, like the latin american or African dictatorships? Maybe China? North Korea?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Yes, but the gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with the plauge of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of the Brutals.
I really like the Ello concept where you are required to tag your content. which allows for filters at CONSUMER'S discretion.
On a more general leve, I can't underestand the relationship between (many) americans and nudity.
Where I live, if someone walks down a beach wearing ONLY a gun holster , people will discuss the gun, not the tits or penis :)
I've read several American people describing their trip to a no-swimsuit-allowed european sauna as if they had been to Mars and back !!
I can understand it on a personal level, but some oil in the moral compass can't hurt.
Relax :) (and apologies for grammar and spelling mistakes)
First, a couple of caveats, porn/sex addiction is a highly debated diagnosis. I will not enter that debate since it seems to be yet another can of worms.
Most of the linked articles concerns self reported problematic behavior. They do not show causality, i.e. porn causing problematic behavior, just that some report their porn use as problematic. I have mostly skipped those articles and may have missed something interesting.
The first section contains 20 reviews so it seems like a good place to start:
The first 8 concern addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (CSB). Thus not any causal effects of porn.
Number 9 sounds better: Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports. Behav. Sci. 2016, 6, 17
It suggests causality and claims to be a review but is makes some dubious claims. Let's see if someone who knows more has reviewed it... ooops:
https://retractionwatch.com/20...
That was a lot more damning than I had imagined.
Turns out, one of the authors, Gary Wilson is also the author of the book "Your brain on porn" which may be related to the website you linked to (yourbrainonporn). Also, he is donates all the proceeds from the book to the Reward Foundation which has a clear anti-porn agenda. This was not disclosed in the original paper but was later corrected.
In short, I doubt I'll find anything useful further down the list but let's continue. The linked articles are not suspect even if Gary is.
10-16 is more addiction and CSB. I stopped at 17 but that was another addiction study, not showing a causal connection between porn and addiction (that is, there are people with problematic porn habits but it isn't necessarily porn causing those habits). 19-20 are more about addiction.
Ok, so out of the first 20, one was perhaps relevant but it turned out to be utter shite. Up next 20 neuroimaging studies.
Again, 1-3 are studies about self reported problematic behavior / addiction.
Number 4 is interesting though. It is a small study (28 ppl) but it showed a worse performance in a working memory test right after watching pornographic pictures (compared to controls). They did not test how long the effect lasts though so it may be a very short lived effect.
Number 5 is similar showing "negative impact on decision making" when porn pics are right on a "bad" deck of cards vs a "good". (i am getting a bit tired now so won't go into details). Again, probably a very short lived effect and difficult to extrapolate the effect into real life.
Number 6 is another addiction study (I think).
Number 7 is a funny one. Psychology Today summarizes it as NOT showing porn addiction exists. Yourbrainonporn interprets it differently of course.
Number 8, correlation between something in the brain and self reported porn use. Not causation. Did I mention I'm tired now?
Number 10-20 seem to be about self reported addicts, CSB or showing some kind of correlation and not causation.
Number 21 is a bit interesting. Basically, abstaining from porn is different than abstaining from your favorite food when it comes to delay discounting.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Number 22-40 is more of the same (but I reading through it a lot quicker now). A lot of studies on people with self reported problematic behavior, some correlation studies etc. Nothing about how porn actually affects people. Just that some people have problems with it (and a lot of specifics about them).
Many of the web authors claimed conclusions are just conjectures. It is often claimed that study X shows that porn "causes" Y but when you read the study it did not show causality or if the effect transfers to ordinary life. Reduced decision making skills while watching porn is hardly a problem as long as you don't watch porn while making important de