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comment by newgameplus
newgameplus  ·  4598 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Could teenagers be stopped from looking at porn?
Watching porn isn't bad for you, but porn addiction is. There's now mounting evidence about how internet porn is especially conducive to creating addiction, and how the negative effects are much greater than the pre-internet days. Here's a TED talk about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zif0_60b3WU

That being said, the speaker in that video talks as if the studied levels of addiction are an epidemic. That I'm not so sure of.





b_b  ·  4598 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Alcohol addiction is bad, too. I don't want anyone interfering with my access to alcohol, either. But I suppose if its a huge public health issue, that's when the gov't gets involved.