Multiple countries are trying to force porn sites to have an efficient age verification. With frightening numbers like half of 12 year old boys go monthly to porn sites.

Sure for an adult who remember the time where at best one kid would have brought a magazine to school, it feels concerning. However, it’s been easily 20 years that every household has high speed internet which is full of porn. So the kids under 30 (let’s call them Gen-Z) had a massive access to porn while growing up.

Is there any “sociologicial” studies about how it impacted these young adults ? Are they sexually more fucked-up than the millennials ?

    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      IMO, there was a pretty big shift starting around 2005-2007, when it became possible to watch video pornography on common pocket-sized electronic devices. Before then, porn was accessible to varying degrees. It became ubiquitous.

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              14 hours ago

              What a bizarre sub-thread.

              OC says generations (plural) before had the same access as Gen Z. Presuming that to mean as kids, that’s clearly not true.

              Someone steps in to write that people on the border of Gen Z and the generation (singular) before it had similar access. Useful to learn, but not groundbreaking.

              Commenter points out that that’s not very different and gets insulted.