Nah. Just that it’s one aspect of porn and a 12 year olds potential viewpoint on it. If we’re discussing one fucked up fact (this study), I figured we could throw in another related fact.

Remember, we are talking about kids who see it as a future career. Not as a current option. It’s still fucked up. But I didn’t take the article to be saying kids see a career in making porn at their current ages.

I was talking about one way they may be informed on the subject. And that’s what this comment thread is about. Being informed. It started about economics.

My comment was a terribly formed way to try to make that point. In addition, it was me being snarky about people who don’t want anything better than “r u 18?” keeping kids off of porn sites. A recent hot topic. This study shows we may have even more reason to reconsider how we handle porn online.

AND YES, further solutions have a million downsides. That’s why they have been avoided up until now. I’m not saying the way things are going is great (recent laws). I’m just saying that it’s fucked up we don’t have better solutions yet. It’s 2025. And studies like this are just beginning to concretely show the results of online porn.

I know everyone around Lemmy, and in nerd circles loves porn. It’s the invisible hand that picks technological winners and losers and all that.

It’s all a tangled mess. I have no real solutions. And I’m against banning pornography. I mostly find it a bit frustrating there is no nuance. And that after 25-30 years or whatever, the discourse around it still thinks parents are the solution, even though they consistently, pervasively fail. There’s usually not even anything said about how we could make the parent problem better. All we hear is “it’s not my fucking problem. It’s the parent’s problem!”