If you ignore for a moment that generative image AI will most likely utterly decimate the digital arts industry, it's kind of refreshing to see artistic expressions without the usual Tumblr degeneracy. It only took a blanket ban on explicit sexual content to accomplish this.
I suppose it'll crop up again when the usual suspects(Tumblr degenerates) manage to circumvent the ban on sexual content, but by then AI image generators may be good enough to create 'deep fakes/undress simulacra', removing the demand for illustrated pornographic content altogether.
Another factor of influence is that a new and different demographic is tinkering with artistic expression (through AI.)
Except it is easy to access. particularly opium. but porn and drugs are often times linked to make a point but... is it though? video games are easy to access, with some levels of dopamine spikes in the brain. and some anti gaming advocates would consider that to be a drug. so anything can be a bad thing if it makes you feel good... including if you remove context for what that thing is and what it does.
That's the problem here. we don't know if those million of lonely men are in relationships or just choose to be lonely. also what's wrong with jerking off to hentai. and or rape gang bangs? people are perverts and you just sound like an upthight puritan... and we all know how well you guys win over people with you holier than thou attitude.
nothing you just said makes sense. can you try again?
yes, normal people also think toxic repetitive Dota 2 and gacha/casino games are bad and should be shunned or, push comes to shove, outlawed... very few think that games generally considered good (like, i don't know, Hades) are ebul because you feel cool playing em.
as for your first line... yes, it's easy to access... that's the bad part? hard to access dopamine tends to be the healthy kind, like working out, being content with your situation in life, achieving something difficult but fulfilling?
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No my point is your connection to porn with harmful drugs. not the same. and then i said, going by your logic, someone who is anti game. could make the same connection with video games.
Yeah the problem with that is... some men are just bad at picking up women. some men may not be in position to get pussy or even a date. some men may not like real women, and may prefer 2d women. alot of angles your not considering here.
again nothing you say makes a lick of sense, except to the sort of morons that get convinced of an idea just by having it repeated happily often enough...
yes the same. easy dopamine, harmful, addictive.
nuance is a powerful thing. feeling good because you beat a hard dark souls boss is OK. feeling good because you finally got the specific anime girl you wanted after paying 500 bucks and grinding for 70 hours straight is not OK.
"you see, our society is broken, men are fucked as a result, and keep doing fucked up things. that's why porn is okay."
get a grip.
the problem here is drugs rot you from the inside... and can kill you! that's one of the many differences... between a fucking porn addiction and being a fucking drug addict! you fucking idiot!
and context matters here. let's say... your playing shooter yeah? pretty easy standard shooter, and... you get a few headshots, some body shots and ya feel pretty powerful feel pretty big yeah? kinda like... your enjoying it! those dopamine in your brain are firing off like fire works! but-
Someone see's that your enjoying this. getting off to such brutality. you see in your dark souls example that's one way to get a high playing videos games. sad thing is... your leaving out different ways how people can get off playing games. you used a high ceiling example.
But that doesn't matter. if you can get joy out of beating some rando ped (pedestrian) running them over. shooting into a crowd full of people... one could say that easy access to dopamine is on the same level of using drugs... and you need to have a continues escalation of that virtual violence to feel that same high again. again your just not liking the example i provided you. because it shuts down your anti porn augment.
Porn is neither good nor bad. it is however an outlet. why men don't wanna do social stuff anymore is beyond me.