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Does 'rape culture' accurately describe (many) societies?

The article you referenced is specifically about people over the age of thirteen and under eighteen. If you think porn is the main or a major part of the toxicity of online culture for that age group, then you're objecting to people with maturing and mature genitals, genitals that menstruate and ejaculate and cause orgasm when masturbated, sometimes being able to see pictures of genitals despite not being allowed to see pictures of genitals. This is puritanical nonsense.
 
dirtywick said:
it’s an afterthought in your own source on the dangers of toxic online content, which calls out several other dangers more prominently. in fact i agreed with your source on that.
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Not so - the focus is generally on a toxic online content.
dirtywick said:
when i look at something like ryan’s world toy unboxing with 40m subscribers on youtube pushing materialistic ads at toddlers while claiming to be a safe space for kids, that causes me much more concern than pornhub existing on its own adult part of the internet.
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I'm sure that is an issue. So is the fact that, Pornhub is easily available to kids. According to https://www.statista.com/statistics...e50ALSyfT-X6IgPDWRlNxAWc4nyvtvDAEgChzQj9NJeEE

In January 2024, Pornhub saw over 11.4 billion mobile visits from global users.
 
Myriad said:
The article you referenced is specifically about people over the age of thirteen and under eighteen. If you think porn is the main or a major part of the toxicity of online culture for that age group, then you're objecting to people with maturing and mature genitals, genitals that menstruate and ejaculate and cause orgasm when masturbated, sometimes being able to see pictures of genitals despite not being allowed to see pictures of genitals. This is puritanical nonsense.
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i agree, and i think as much as poem wants to avoid it, the article is in reference to a much more broad set of toxic culture online. particularly with social media, who at least makes a token attempt to segregate porn to adult spaces on their sites. with the rest of the damaging parts of online culture, they do nothing except profit off of it. want to stream and promote gambling to kids, show them how to get on overseas gambling sites and open accounts, show them fake odds and play with house money? you can make a million dollars doing that. andrew tate will show you how to beat up women, that's free speech. let's run ads on it and monetize it, may as well get a cut.

everyone already agrees children shouldn't be seeing porn. the rest of the stuff is often not even considered a problem.
 
Myriad said:
The article you referenced is specifically about people over the age of thirteen and under eighteen. If you think porn is the main or a major part of the toxicity of online culture for that age group, then you're objecting to people with maturing and mature genitals, genitals that menstruate and ejaculate and cause orgasm when masturbated, sometimes being able to see pictures of genitals despite not being allowed to see pictures of genitals. This is puritanical nonsense.
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Can you clarify what exactly is puritanical? - just so I don't misunderstand.
 
Poem said:
Not so - the focus is generally on a toxic online content.
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so we agree this issue is a much broader scope than porn?

Poem said:
I'm sure that is an issue. So is the fact that, Pornhub is easily available to kids. According to https://www.statista.com/statistics...e50ALSyfT-X6IgPDWRlNxAWc4nyvtvDAEgChzQj9NJeEE

In January 2024, Pornhub saw over 11.4 billion mobile visits from global users.
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what portion of that is children

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for comparison, mr beast does 2.6b views a month


so that's kind of peanut numbers in a year
 
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hey poem, here's some more numbers for you, just on youtube.

Key YouTube Stats You Need to Know This 2024 - jeffbullas.com

Explore the latest YouTube stats for 2024. These numbers give insights into advertising trends, user engagement, and industry spending.
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in july alone of 2024, youtube got 73b visits. times that by 12, and you can see how much smaller pornhub is by comparison. and that's not to say that youtube is bad or all these people are up to something nefarious. pornhub is just not that big of a website by comparison to where most of the people spend their time online, especially when you start to add in the other major sites. there's trillions of visits yearly, pornhub is a tiny fraction of online activity.
 
Poem said:
Not true on this thread. Acbytesla coudn't care less.
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ok almost everyone then. that was the least important part of the post.

idk, this thread just goes on forever because you're just putting your fingers in your ears and reciting slogans. not sure what i'm even doing with my time anymore lol
 
well i care way less about kids seeing porn the older they get, and if we limit it to that age range there's way, way bigger fish to fry.
 
Poem said:
Which you think is puritanical to deny them access to porn.
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No society, not even the actual literal Puritans, has ever imposed the same rules of conduct on sixteen year olds as on six year olds. So no, I suppose it's not actually puritanical, it's just outright ridiculous.
 
Myriad said:
No society, not even the actual literal Puritans, has ever imposed the same rules of conduct on sixteen year olds as on six year olds. So no, I suppose it's not actually puritanical, it's just outright ridiculous.
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I have been quoting many that do not think it is ridiculous. Peter Kyle doesn't think it is.
You clearly think the UK's Online Safety Act is wrong in trying to protect children from seeing porn.

How far are you going to go with this?
 
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