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shift-shaping · 4 months ago

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very funny when someone who tries to tell you porn addiction is real is already marked with shinigami eyes. like oh really? i never would have guessed a transphobe would buy multiple strains of fundamentalist christian propaganda. anyway

like i cannot stress enough that porn addiction is a fake thing made up by fundamentalists to make you demonize sex. it is not a real thing. you can have all manner of compulsions, sure, but a porn compulsion is no more harmful than a compulsion to doomscrolling or washing your hands or brushing your teeth. which is to say, it's not great to have a compulsion at all, but a compulsion to pornography is not uniquely concerning in and off itself.

research on this subject is very clear that porn and porn consumption itself is not the issue. what causes distress and shame is the culture surrounding porn and the way our society demonizes people for normal sexual feelings.

porn is morally neutral. you are not a bad person for enjoying porn. the real-life porn industry is a shitshow, but there are many ways to enjoy pornography that are entirely harmless. support your favorite independent porn producers.

#stop spreading christian propaganda 2k24 #just kidding the people who say this shit are wayy too deep to stop without intervention from people close to them #because they don't think they are spreading propaganda #they call themselves pro-choice! they call themselves feminist! they can't be evangelicals in a different shirt #but they are. because the core beliefs are still there. the view that sex is a dirty thing that makes you evil #that women are weak-willed perpetual victims that only see sex as a necessity.#that men are violent animals controlled only by faith + careful regulation of their inherently harmful selves #but the call is coming from inside the house. the problem is not pornography.#the problem is your failure to fully deconstruct from an extremely harmful yet normalized belief system #as an ex-christian and a former (redacted) with a parent who is an addict #the 'porn addiction' thing grinds my gears for so many reasons #the addiction is not to porn! the addiction is to shame!

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