What are they going to do with this amount of freed hands now????
Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
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Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's for the best. I think new generations are way too passive. We've been trained to live our lives passively and vicariously... Engaging in the cheapest possible alternatives to various life experiences, quantity over quality.
Do you suggest that there are not enough sexual assaults with this statement?
No but more aggression and assertiveness is needed. I hope this won't correlate but I really think our generation will end up in a place worse than we can imagine if we don't grow a backbone. Already millennials are being coerced into various kinds of sexual slavery.
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's for the best. I think new generations are way too passive. We've been trained to live our lives passively and vicariously... Engaging in the cheapest possible alternatives to various life experiences, quantity over quality.
Do you suggest that there are not enough sexual assaults with this statement?
That’s a very glib interpretation of the message, bordering on the malicious.
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#14Just means more VPNs are being used to bypass this stupid piece of legislation.
It's interesting that simple Javascript can be used by e.g PornHub to predict VPN usage by Brits: "What is the browser's timezone, and what is it's language?"
If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says it's UTC+1 and en_GB...
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#15The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601... If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me. > Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape. > In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex cr…
Fair enough although that's not the only statistics they cite.
More importantly I think they're trying to point out the converse of maybe what you're pointing to, which is that as porn availability increases, if it caused sexual assault, rates of the latter would go up. But it doesn't, you see the opposite trend time and time again.
This is one of those cases where you'll never be able to do a RCT, so any study will be flawed in some way (even RCTs have their issues).
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#16In other news, a massive spike in BitTorrent traffic has been detected in the UK. Experts are calling the rise "unprecedented".
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#17The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601... If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me. > Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape. > In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex cr…
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Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#18The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601... If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
Or countries with higher access to porn have lower reporting on their sexual assault stats.
Sexual assault and abuse are one of the most unreliable stats in the world because there are so many disincentives to report.
Further, it’s also a foolish stat to compare across jurisdictions because what constitutes sexual assault and abuse is wildly different across jurisdictions.
These stats tend to punish the countries that have the best environments to reduce sexual abuse and assault because they will also have the highest reporting.
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#19Just means more VPNs are being used to bypass this stupid piece of legislation.
It's interesting that simple Javascript can be used by e.g PornHub to predict VPN usage by Brits: "What is the browser's timezone, and what is it's language?" If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says it's UTC+1 and en_GB...
This is what the Australian Government wants to implement (unfortunately) for social media.
They want the websites to take "reasonable" action to prevent access. They suggested snooping on EXIF metadata to determine the location of the image to Meta.
Good chance they'll use stuff like browser fingerprinting too.
Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced
#20The historical data is that porn usage is inversely correlated with sexual violence: the countries with more access to porn have less rapes. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601... If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
It simply isn't about protecting kids. The sources aren't entirely reliable, but it is plausible that the head of government even hid the problem of children getting raped by migrants to "not rock the boat". Not sure how much of that is true, but I don't see the ability to take responsibility to protect kids here if political convenience is that important.