by Chris Black
Young boys are getting addicted to porn at age 11-12 and never learn how to interact with women because porn kills their desire to develop social skills.
To ignore this crisis and call the people suffering from it “losers” is heartless.
And why shouldn’t the state help people develop self-discipline? I’d rather live in a country that actually cares about its citizens instead of one where we’re all thrown to the wolves and told “good luck”.
not defending porn but you need to understand that men who blame their life problems on porn are just looking for a scapegoat
"I'm a loser because of all the porn" — no, you're a loser, and it's easier to blame porn than to stop being a loser
— Zero H.P. Lovecraft 🦅🐍 (@0x49fa98) February 13, 2023
>cringe libertarian centrist Elon Musk takes over Twitter
>the remaining contingent of kosher “Dissident Right” tweeters all start saying stuff like “maybe banning porn is a bad idea”
Makes me do a great big thinky
It’s a very common tactic to suggest that because a policy wouldn’t be 100% effective, it would be a waste of effort to do it.
People use this tactic because it’s quick and easy, and can be involved for any policy on any issue.
Banning porn is just one step towards the restoration that must be undertaken. It won’t fix everything, but if that’s your reason not to do something then you might as well just roll over and die. By that standard, nothing is worth doing.
If coomers had their porn taken away and faced serious consequences for continued attempts to use it, they would have to find some other outlet for that wasted energy.
Some portion of them would end up doing something productive, and however small that portion would be, it’d be a net positive.
There is no mind pollution as bad as porn, not even TikTok or Twitch.
But those things should also be banned anyway.
It’s worth noting that this impulse to blame “loser” young men for having easy and free access to porn before they even hit puberty is a pretty clear example of Boomerism persisting among the “dissident” right-wing sphere.
Placing all responsibility on the individual as though he doesn’t exist within a broader ecosystem and isn’t influenced by that ecosystem is a fallacy of the individualist/libertarian worldview.
It’s the same pathway that leads to “pull yourself up by bootstraps,” as though the system hasn’t already sold your boots out from under you.
If you’re a young boy who has never been given real guidance, never had a strong and positive male influence in your life, and has never been taught any sense of self-respect, how are you supposed to know that porn will break your spirit?
Even worse, young men are growing up in a social ecosystem that actually glorifies pornography, teaches us lies about how consuming it is “healthy,” and portrays consumption of it in a light-hearted and inconsequential way.
It’s referenced all the time in pop culture. I can remember high school sex-ed classes where they literally taught us these things, and I’m in my mid-30s. This garbage didn’t start with Web 2.0.
The culture-making institutions put tons of effort into teaching kids that this is a normal and healthy way to live.
These institutions go out of their way to expose kids to this stuff and make sure they get hooked on it, like a crack dealer enlisting his 12 year old nephew to sling to the kids in his neighborhood.
Blaming an individual kid for being put in that situation by everyone he’s been taught to trust isn’t just cold, it’s idiotic.
It almost requires you to excuse and downplay the complex of forces that inflict this on kids.