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And you know this because you’re the expert of knowing what is morality? Decades of people telling you it is immoral, yet somehow you come along to say the opposite and hope people believe it? The only justification you can give is an ad hominem attack accusing the other person of not knowing what they are talking about.

Try a little bit of academic knowledge here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU

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Of course it is not immoral: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJ_QfP2mhU

Have you look at the video description? It says explicitly that views expressed in the video are not supported by the mainstream research.

I did not see that bit. I came upon this many years ago. TED has changed its thought process and stances on multiple subjects since then. Adding such disclaimers is a new turn of editorialism.

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of research that both recognizes and refutes the assertions, you will find more opinions expressed than facts. But neither the facts nor opinions are interesting. It is the narratives and the lessons derived that hold more value. And that video expresses some of them.

There is a longer documentary style video on the same subject by the same speaker.

And my search turned up this bit: https://pornstudycritiques.com/gary-wilson-wins-second-legal...

There is a movement out there trying to crush this video.

That whole website is "all of science disagrees with us, but we know we are right, and there is a cabal of scientists trying to silence us". This is the least scientific website and you should not use them as a source.

Fine. Won't use them for science. The significant question remains: why is someone trying so hard to crush that video?

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