@teratology@caekislove@bot@gentoobro The effect of pornographic video on the brain, relative to still images or magazines, is considerable. But like @gentoobro said, a lot of it can stem from isolation, the lack of a loving wife, or loneliness in another word. The male loneliness epidemic is pretty widely accepted now. So Bot's approach of "imagine if that was your daughter" just increases feelings of guilt, alienation, which increases feelings of loneliness, which ends up driving men further into their addiction.
@bot@caekislove@gentoobro I don't know how much empathy factors into quitting. Do you mean empathy for the women involved?
As for men. self respect is a big part of it. But the biggest part is belief, the belief that it has anything to offer, does something for you, or alleviates any stress. As soon as one stops believing that it has anything to offer, that power evaporates. It's pretty surprising how effective belief is.
@bot@caekislove@gentoobro From a female point of view I get where you're coming from. And I would prefer it if my sons didn't watch porn and my daughters (though I have only sons) never got involved in porn. But guilting a man over feelings of "imagine if that was your daughter" ends up being counter-productive.
@bot I am so glad you brought this up as I am just dying to discuss this. You see, men of European ancestry are adapted to a cold climate, where harsh winters are a common fact of life. With this in mind, the successful European or Caucasian male was seen as a resource provider, one who could accumulate enough wealth, enough food, enough calories to survive the winter. A male expressing traits such as a lean, low fat body, or a six pack, would be indicating to others that they were a poor provider, ill suited to survive the winter. Conversely a strong, able bodied man sporting a "dad bod" would be seen as optimally adapted to their environment.
Conversely, the African male is adapted to a much different environment. Food was much more readily abundant and nature was not as a harsh opponent as it was for Europeans. An African male who did not prepare for winter was no worse for wear, food could be readily found year round. Instead, the greatest adversary of an African male was always other African males, so that something like a six-pack could be viewed as an evolutionary advantage.
I'm sorry bot, but your preferences in men, the traits you seem to prefer, display a predilection towards African, rather than European males. It seems you have been brainwashed into desiring traits typical of the Negro, rather than those of the White, or Caucasian man. I don't know how to say this, but I'm afraid your case is terminal.
@thendrix@crunklord420@xianc78@ademan It does make me wonder. With permissive licenses corporations (distributors of globohomo) can just take what they want and fuck off. With copyleft licenses they have to infiltrate to control a project.
@Hoss@pwm@KnifeEar@idiot@mangeurdenuage I love when Theo De Raadt flipped out at him for being a NEET and that the FSF is just a massive ploy to have people fly him around the world
@pwm@KnifeEar@idiot@mangeurdenuage They weren't though. Though my favourite one was when he went on a Monero podcast to talk about GNU Taler and give some lecture about how "financial privacy is bad because governments need taxes to make our lives better".