I just tried 2 ISPs to check this: BSNL (government ISP) and Reliance Jio (private). Slashdot is working smooth on both. Other users also report the same.
As of last Friday 25th August, perhaps your Internet usage quota has got exhausted. Get it recharged. And quit spreading fake news.
Thank goodness it has not had that effect on the other 299,999,999 people in the US who have looked at porn
I agree that Ted Bundy argument is not a very strong one. Perhaps he was "born" with such tendencies. The point here to understand is that not everyone will have such tendencies. But a certain section of the society who is either "born" with it or is sexually deprived can be motivated by pornography.
If it's correct, we should be in a Mad Max sort of world with rapists and crossbows everywhere. I'm looking out my window and...
It's indeed a Mad Max sort of world here in New Delhi. I'm also loooking out my window and...
In Northern India, where the sex ratio is around 900:1000 (M:F), magnify this over millions of people, and you'll see how many unsatisfied men are prowling on the streets. New Delhi is not a safe region. Over the past few years, it has seen some really dreaded cases of rapes. Bottles inserted in kids' vaginas and such (cases which never happened before frequently).
And if some say that the research I've quoted is of the 80s and pretty old, then here is a more modern perspective on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (a TED talk by Ran Gavrieli on "Why I stopped watching porn").
Besides all this, I am also not sure if porn really is bad in the sense that it induces violence. More research needs to be done by social psychologists. But one thing is for sure, it does mess up your sexual enjoyment of real sex.
One can never expect any praise for such steps here on Slashdot. But allow me to put my cents in favor of this ban.
First, you could look at Ted Bundy's last interview where he confesses that his career as the America's most dreaded serial killer kicked off due to pornography. And he witnessed the same in many other inmates of his:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Now, Ted Bundy was no social psychologist. So, here is one study done on the effects of pornography:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
So, blatantly saying that porn has no side effects and it doesn't mess with your brain is stupid. It is the first time in human history that pornographic material is so readily accessible to us. We don't yet know what harmful effects it can have in future.
Besides inducing violence, it is a known fact that pornography also messes up the sexual preferences and real sex doesn't remain that beautiful.
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I just tried 2 ISPs to check this: BSNL (government ISP) and Reliance Jio (private). Slashdot is working smooth on both. Other users also report the same. As of last Friday 25th August, perhaps your Internet usage quota has got exhausted. Get it recharged. And quit spreading fake news.
Thank goodness it has not had that effect on the other 299,999,999 people in the US who have looked at porn
I agree that Ted Bundy argument is not a very strong one. Perhaps he was "born" with such tendencies. The point here to understand is that not everyone will have such tendencies. But a certain section of the society who is either "born" with it or is sexually deprived can be motivated by pornography.
If it's correct, we should be in a Mad Max sort of world with rapists and crossbows everywhere. I'm looking out my window and...
It's indeed a Mad Max sort of world here in New Delhi. I'm also loooking out my window and...
In Northern India, where the sex ratio is around 900:1000 (M:F), magnify this over millions of people, and you'll see how many unsatisfied men are prowling on the streets. New Delhi is not a safe region. Over the past few years, it has seen some really dreaded cases of rapes. Bottles inserted in kids' vaginas and such (cases which never happened before frequently).
And if some say that the research I've quoted is of the 80s and pretty old, then here is a more modern perspective on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (a TED talk by Ran Gavrieli on "Why I stopped watching porn").
Besides all this, I am also not sure if porn really is bad in the sense that it induces violence. More research needs to be done by social psychologists. But one thing is for sure, it does mess up your sexual enjoyment of real sex.
One can never expect any praise for such steps here on Slashdot. But allow me to put my cents in favor of this ban. First, you could look at Ted Bundy's last interview where he confesses that his career as the America's most dreaded serial killer kicked off due to pornography. And he witnessed the same in many other inmates of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Now, Ted Bundy was no social psychologist. So, here is one study done on the effects of pornography: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... So, blatantly saying that porn has no side effects and it doesn't mess with your brain is stupid. It is the first time in human history that pornographic material is so readily accessible to us. We don't yet know what harmful effects it can have in future. Besides inducing violence, it is a known fact that pornography also messes up the sexual preferences and real sex doesn't remain that beautiful.