TL;DR: The UK Government has announced a sweeping under-16s social media ban, which could have implications for privacy rights for everyone.
The UK government has announced a sweeping ban on children under the age of 16 accessing social media. This landmark decision – in what is already a highly
We now already have a few generations with plenty of members who started watching online porn when they were technically too young for that, and we can now tell that this hasn’t harmed them.
Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences. The reward and gratification system adapts by releasing large amounts of dopamine, but tolerance develops, requiring increasingly higher doses, quantities, and intensity to achieve arousal
So we know it behaves like a drug, the study goes into further detail how it affects adolescents — and here you are saying ‘no it isn’t actually that bad’.
Ask a heroin addict about his quality of life and his answer depends on his last hit.
We now already have a few generations with plenty of members who started watching online porn when they were technically too young for that, and we can now tell that this hasn’t harmed them.
Prove it.
You can’t prove a negative, that’s not how experiments and hypothesis works.
If you’re making a claim that early exposure causes harm, you’re the one that has to prove it via the following steps:
Congratulations, you have just been taught how to do science
Yet you completely ignored studies like this from the National Library of Medicine
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So we know it behaves like a drug, the study goes into further detail how it affects adolescents — and here you are saying ‘no it isn’t actually that bad’.
Ask a heroin addict about his quality of life and his answer depends on his last hit.