Yep the best way to start a new moral panic is by recycling tired tropes from an older one (drug / weed panic of the 90s).
Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?
kinther@lemmy.world 3 months agoThere are anecdotal reports of antisocial behavior, erectile dysfunction, etc in many small communities. I think yourbrainonporn.com is a good primer and rebootnation is a forum with people trying and failing to stop masterbating even to their own detriment. Make your own decision though.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 months ago
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Ouff
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds like some totally science-based and factual sources…
kinther@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Citation needed. I know you’re trying to be funny, but there’s actually a lot of evidence going back to 2012 that internet pornography addiction is an actual issue for many people.
Watching pornographic pictures on the Internet: role of sexual arousal ratings and psychological-psychiatric symptoms for using Internet sex sites excessively - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21117979/
Pornographic picture processing interferes with working memory performance - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23167900/
Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder - akjournals.com/view/journals/…/article-p520.xml#B…
SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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