Lotsa people talking about porn on the TL recently. Just going to re-up this piece we published back in September, which points out that lot of the claims made about porn's supposed harms are exaggeratedhttps://quillette.com/2019/09/12/anti-pornography-campaigners-pseudo-scientific-treadmill/ …
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The worries over pornography are classical case of the "third person effect": People think that porn has bad effects - on other people. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/851385787128180737?s=20 … https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00712.x?casa_token=19DNPYjrOeQAAAAA:fi89xiHZfE7GlMYltfWnDCB_k7fuOw_dRMAJEdzSMZU8KLVBZMXA_Bkt7w27_6tEdX1F48bif68RozAorries …
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I think there’s an implicit bias here. How many people have had the courage to admit that porn has had bad effects on them personally?
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I'd rather think they notice very well that it is completely harmless if they use it, but they think others are susceptible sissies. That jibes with a broad psychology research tradition on self enhancement.
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