First of i am very sex repulsed. It triggers some trauma (i am very sure i am ace anyway tho).
Seeing people sexualising themselfs or others is the worst for me. it can literally end the day for me, because i have to stay in bed for the rest of the day trying to deal with the emotions. So naturally i try to avoid that. all my friends are very suportive. On the internet i obviously dont go to places where such things might be. today i way watching roadrage videos. should be save enough right? ofc not. because some people gotta but sexualising content literally everywhere. The otherday i looked for chess openings. found a guide who ??? sexualised the chess pieces???
i am just tired. nsfw already has the majority of internet traffic. cant i just have some small portion where i can feel save?
I know i am an extreme case but it just feels so darn isolating. i am scared of joining any discord server. i used to my partner check subreddits (thankfull lemmy seems to be less bad in this regard) before joining. the internet gives potential for so much community especially for an introvert like me. but beeing so very sex repulsed locks me out of those communitys right away.
Thanks for reading. I dont think there is help or a solution. I just needed to rant to someone.
If you were looking for a technical solution on Lemmy, you can block the entire lemmynsfw server, and the selection of anime, furry and celeb communities with sexually suggestive content. That should deal with 98% of it, most of that type of stuff won’t land on news, memes or shitpost and definitely not without an nsfw tag.
As for generally in our world, I can’t help you much since sex sells, and advertisers, social media want to target users’ horny signals to get their attention.
yeah i know. i just like to dream of a world where i could live without it. Also i really apprechite lemmy for that. its other sites i struggle with. sites with “cool userfriendly algorithms”