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[starheavenly]

Locket's night life

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

(genuine question sorry if it comes across as spam or trolling) is porn addiction not actually a thing? and how is it connected to terf stuff (again genuinely want to know so I don’t repeat the retoric)

No worries anon, I do not get enough asks for things to come across as spam or trolling.

But yeah no, porn addiction is not a thing. Over two decades of research has not proven a goddamn thing; rather, it's proven that it doesn't exist. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] *note, some of these are more accessible than others and some are more specific

While those who believe in it will present what seems to be a mountain of evidence for it, their evidence is often unscientific or unreliable or uses flawed measures or uses incredibly small sample sizes, including a sample of 1 in some cases.

The actual scientific consensus is that while excessive watching of porn can be a bad habit and can negatively impact your life, you can't become addicted to it the way that you can with things like alcohol. Things like alcohol addiction or tobacco addiction are related to a significant change in the neuronal transmission in your brain. Like certain drugs mimic certain neurotransmitters and impact the neuro-receptors on either side of a synapse.

Porn doesn't do that. Or moreso, porn is not unique in how it can change your brain chemistry. Someone who spends twelve hours a day seven days a week watching reality TV doesn't have a habit inherently different to someone who spends the same amount of time watching porn.

Often excessive watching of porn is a symptom of a larger issue such as depression. Many of those who self-report as porn addicts match the primary diagnosis of depression.

Also, within research, it is often found that those who self-report a porn addiction watch the same amount of or less of porn as someone who doesn't report it, mostly because a lot of it is related to shame and guilt and not addictive behaviour.

Porn addiction as an idea is most often rooted in religiosity and not science.

It can also be rooted in terfism. Because terfs hate porn.

Their arguments against porn boil down to the idea that women cannot and should not have sexual autonomy. They dress it up obviously, but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a misogynist.

Almost any argument against porn they make can be easily countered by the fact that all their criticisms occur in every industry that exists currently, especially so in creative industries.

The porn industry is not uniquely exploitative. If people's labour is involved, it's probably being exploited or it has the potential to be exploited. Not knowing if the person on screen was treated well on set is not unique to porn, you know how many movies I can list that included actors being treated like shit? The porn industry does not have an issue with human trafficking that is unique to any other industry; it's a massive issue in industries with manual labour. etc.

Point is, it is not inherently evil. Terfs want you to think it is though because A) they hate women and B)

To them, porn equals predatory men (they include trans women in this) exploiting poor innocent women who cannot possibly consent.

The idea of women who actively partake in sex work and enjoy doing so is mind breaking for them; they often rationalise it as the women being mentally ill and being indoctrinated by porn. The idea of porn addiction suits them well because they believe porn is inherently evil like men are.

Terfs can't perceive any situation where women are not being actively victimised by men. They are always the victims and they always need protection from men who are inherently evil and inherently predatory.

They're misogynists and idiots (and very often very racist though that's not currently relevant).

I don't know how coherent this is. It is approaching the time I go to sleep so it might be very rambly. I hope it was helpful anyway. Feel free to ask for clarification that I'll reply to in the morning.

[thoughtsthatmightbehumorous]

ah yes my save space. Gotta save my progress as a board certified Radical Leftist

[ivorybride]

I don’t think it’s a joke anymore yall

[salsa-valentina]

me every time i finish a new severance episode

[sammygull]

(said in the way tyler says it during the judge): josh

[akraziaa]

things i made in paint only for the video

:p

[parker-artio]

Bat Boys as conversations I’ve had with my siblings

Jason yelling up the stairs: Listen here, you fuck-wadded candy-ass, I’m going to kill you once over- then resurrect your ass and kill you again!

Bruce exiting his office and looking at Jason like he’s insane: What in the world is going on?

Jason: Stay outta this Bruce, this is between me and that fucker *points to Duke hiding at the top of the stairs*

Jason: COME HERE, ASSHOLE!

Duke, in typical younger sibling fashion: No. You’re gonna hit me.

[baggy-holmes]

trying something new 😇

[blood-orange-juice]

It's usually misattributed to Mahmoud Darwish (blame tiktok for it) but it was in fact written by a 7th century poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah

Arabic original

translation

Chilumi doodle ✨💧

[nelsaqift]

losing my mind i think

[mr-payjay]

random bullshit go

green sweater girl is a test tube gijinka

sona + silver spoon drawing is Not Selfship. i just think he's cute

fujoshi miku is here cause i Did like that song 👍

[sixwingedcitizen]

these posts are cousins

Not to kill your fun or anything my dude but I noticed you reblogged a picture of some place in Russia for the aesthetic and I just.... Do you even know what goes on in Russia? I try to stay away from reblogging anything about it and you should too....

im russian

[corruptimles]

i have no money!!!