I feel like it’s more important than ever to partition/set-up feeds to only see politics when one wants to.

Absolute madness. The really bad kind.

Very well put. Thank you.

It has changed a lot. It’s no longer just magazines, or getting a physical copy of a DVD. It’s plastered over the internet a few clicks away, with even more brainwashy algorithms to keep people coming back.

This is a big difference from the perspective of addiction psychology.

Why the rise? Maybe because an entire generation grew up with this kind of porn, maybe because there are therapists for this now and it’s not as stigmatized.

Maybe with the male loneliness epidemic it’s even more amplified, esp. for misogynists or cluster c men.

Maybe because porn has also been more normalized with PornHub merch, adverts and giftcards.

Really, I feel like if there’s a genuine interest to know, one can just start searching the web for porn addiction papers, etc.

Or to argue the point of propaganda, look at the BACP, and other parties mentioned in the article and consider how much sense it makes after.

FWIW the only thing that raises my eyebrows in the article is that they want the government to look at the problem. Expected to a degree from an org like BACP, but they aren’t going to invest in community resources. to help with understanding and support first and foremost, and then hold platforms accountable like they should game platforms with lootboxes and such etc… So I’d give them more credit if they offered the direct ways to help the problem. As the government, without direction only seems to know punish, block, ban.

Food for thought, I’m off to sleep and over and out.

I understand the suspicion, but this seems pretty unreasonable. The arguments are scientific and credible. Or are you saying there isn’t a rise in people seeking help for problematic porn use?

There can be problematic porn use and bullshit government overreach hijacking an existing problem, both existing in parallel.

Guided meditation is a game changer for me, fwiw

Just to have a somewhat direct answer here, I repeat the link that [email protected] has posted in their downvoted comment.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/05/fact-check-old-photos-of-donald-trump-with-underage-young-women-are-not-authentic-ai-generated.html

There is enough real shit on Trump, that it doesn’t need to be jeopardized by misinformation. Stay credible.

Kinda wild, just reading this criticism of lemmy, posted in another thread and seeing issues present themselves in this thread.

https://forum.hackliberty.org/t/why-we-abandoned-matrix-the-dark-truth-about-user-security-and-safety/224

credit: https://mastodon.world/@stevecup

I don’t see how it would be illegal at all. I think it would take a lot of time, since there are supposedly hundreds of thousands of documents released and a lot of it is handwritten reports, entries, etc. That’s not to mention any audio files that might have been released too. But they clearly didn’t even try. I should get results for “Barak” (former Israeli PM, alleged to be the sadistic pedophile rapist mentioned in Giuffre’s book)

EDIT: Apparently, Trump’s DOJ lied again. Instead of the “several hundred thousands pages” they advertised today, it’s just under 4k.

CBS:

New documents span 3,965 files, totaling 3 GB of data

The total number of files across all four new data sets is 3,965, with a total file size of about 3 GB. Nearly all of the files are PDFs, with one video file. Some of the files are individual images, while others are documents with many pages.

So they didn’t release all the files, and they didn’t make it searchable. That’s two really important parts of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Drag the felon to jail already…

Since I don’t see a link here, the new files are at
https://justice.gov/epstein

Aaand they also only released under 4k documents instead of the “several hundred thousand” they said they would be releasing today.

“Deputy AG says justice department will release ‘several hundred thousand’ Epstein files today with more to come”

I think you might have to start stretching, friend.