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@midway @alex @billiam I don't believe the comparison to alcohol is appropriate for a few reasons. From a physiological perspective, dopamine pleasure seeking is one of the most primitive aspects of developed life forms, with sex being one of the most common paths for that. Everybody is born predisposed to pornography addiction, the way everybody is born physiologically capable of heroin addiction. The same is not true for alcohol. Psychologically, sure, but that's also present for pornography and most drugs. From a sociological perspective, it's harmful because of its impact on pair bonding, assortative mating, and the normalization of hypersexuality in culture leading to children emulating the behaviors of adults. This barely scratches the surface on either of these two concepts; tomes have been written on this from completely non-religious perspectives.
My opinion on this is for a first step is to reduce the availability of pornography by making it a less profitable industry. Make them jump through more hoops than gun sellers and buyers. That alone would decrease the financial incentive to saturate the web, and the overall decreased availability would make CSAM easier to remove.
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If your goal is to make mainstream porn less profitable, the Internet already did that. Amateurs are giving it away for free makes it tougher to earn a living selling it. The Internet is also why you won’t have much success keeping it from people. It’s really tough when you don’t need to get a physical item like a gun, a drink, or a pill. And we can’t effectively stop those things from being sold…not even in prisons. Do you really think you will stop people from accessing porn on the Internet?
Most of your moral arguments were also used by the prohibitionists. Alcohol was harming families and, ultimately, children.
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