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Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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>Perhaps the most volatile question: does widely available free porn encourage “incels,” the latest boogeymen from the Internet, and the calls for “enforced monogamy” from e.g. blowhard academics who people inexplicably take serious?

In a world where objective journalism doesn’t pay, does every site become Vice?

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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post #2

>Perhaps the most volatile question: does widely available free porn encourage “incels,” the latest boogeymen from the Internet, and the calls for “enforced monogamy” from e.g. blowhard academics who people inexplicably take serious? In a world where objective journalism doesn’t pay, does every site become Vice?

Do you want to elaborate?

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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post #3
post #2

>Perhaps the most volatile question: does widely available free porn encourage “incels,” the latest boogeymen from the Internet, and the calls for “enforced monogamy” from e.g. blowhard academics who people inexplicably take serious? In a world where objective journalism doesn’t pay, does every site become Vice?

Do you want to elaborate?

Rarely would a non-op-ed refer to a group holding an opinion has blowhards that some people inexplicably take seriously.

The New York Times does profiles on White Supremacists that have more respectful tones than this.

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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Here's an enlightening video on the detrimental effects of porn on the brain. Porn addiction shows similar effects as opiates. https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU Related: "NoFap" https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/

"the detrimental effects of addiction on the brain", you mean.

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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post #2

>Perhaps the most volatile question: does widely available free porn encourage “incels,” the latest boogeymen from the Internet, and the calls for “enforced monogamy” from e.g. blowhard academics who people inexplicably take serious? In a world where objective journalism doesn’t pay, does every site become Vice?

Enforced monogamy, i.e., marriage

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you want to elaborate?

Rarely would a non-op-ed refer to a group holding an opinion has blowhards that some people inexplicably take seriously. The New York Times does profiles on White Supremacists that have more respectful tones than this.

It's refreshing. Call a spade a spade.

Re: Pornography and the Butterfly Effect

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Is it still a butterfly effect when it’s a first level effect of the phenomenon ?

Otherwise there seem to be a lot of pushing of that Montreal company, when the coming of free sex to the net must have been a more decentralized and varied phenomenon.

In particular there is a dynamic between pro and amateur pornographic content that is completely ignored to focus on the “incel” concept I am not sure is even correctly discussed in the article.

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