It comes after a law blocking such a move was overturned.

Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

  • AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.comEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    “unproven” because it’s Texan. Fuck The Verge, Internet porn addiction is as real as those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

      Um. What?

      • AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate

        Like the caricatures of sexual perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species

        https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

    • bobgusford@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Nobody disputes it when social media addiction is the topic du jour, but internet porn addiction has been around even before social media became big. And I’m basing this on the number of downvotes you got - I guess these are all the people that went on Pornhub, saw nothing enticing, and moved on.

      • AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree porn addiction has been around for a long time, but it’s very different not that we’re reaching a point in time where people who are expected to be adults and functional in their mid 20’s grew up in a world of ubiquitous Internet access and had smart phones.

        So while porn addiction existed since photography, this is the first time we get to see the effect of population-wide unrestricted access to these things from a very young age.

        It’s actually probably better now with parent-child account management and the like, which didn’t exist at all 15-20 years ago. Also 15-20 years ago CSAM, death imagery, real rape and mutilation videos were all on the front pages of openly accessible .com’s anyone could visit.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Man without the beetle analogy I wasn’t going to be sold on your personal and admittedly weird crusade, but now