I’m just filling the void with mental and social junk food
I don’t agree with the banning of porn in principle, but I agree that the net effect of banning porn probably does a net good in the case of china. It is just so incredibly ripe for exploitation and so very dangerous for children. I swear if I ever have kids, if I take a hard stance on anything at all, it will be no unsupervised internet access until an appropriate age (12, 13? I dunno). And then a thorough discussion of what kind of stuff is out there on porn sites and how it can be very harmful for developing brains.
I think a lot of us were lucky to grow up during the more unformed internet before it turned into a Bad Vibes & Propaganda Firehose and were inoculated to the worst of it, but as it presently exists I would not let a child near it.
I think banning it is totally fine and probably necessary.
I don’t think it should be criminalized however. Adults will still get it just fine under a ban and banning might be the only way to reliably keep it away from children
True, regarding keeping it away from children. But if there is a demand for it, won’t it just result in the production of it becoming a sketchy underground market, an environment ripe for abuse? Just throwing some thoughts around, I don’t have any super firm stance on what I think an ideal system for porn would look like.
You bring up good points.
Turning the production of porn into an underground market would be pretty awful.
Yeah same I’m not sure what porn would be like in an equitable society
