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You think thirst traps are okay for kids? If we rewind time, the Girls Gone Wild commercial is not supposed to be even remotely possible on certain channels.

We’re a derelict society that has become numb, “it’s just a thirst trap”.

We’re in the later innings of a hyper-sexualized society.

Why it’s bad:

1) You shift male puberty into overdrive

2) You continue warping young female concepts of lewdness and body image, effectively “undefining” it (lewdness? What is lewdness?).

3) You also continue warping male concepts of body image

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When did anyone say it was okay? You’re reading something into the comment that isn’t there.

I read into this sentence:

“Just thirst trap” (And you see the word I read into).

Right. No, I get it. Listen, we collectively have the issue of not recognizing the significance of things. Nothing personal.

No, I don't think Thirst Traps are necessarily OK, but it's a fine line, and given current gym/athletic wear it's not always easy to discern what is actually a genuine (say) workout video vs a trap.

Kids as in under 18 teenagers? Yeah sure, why not?

Because parasocial relationships with ewhores isn't healthy, particularly at a stage in their life when they should be forming real relationships with their peers.

Parasocial relationships are a different topic than pornography.

Are you saying that the intersection is uniquely bad? In either case limits to content made in an effort to minimize parasocial relationships cut across very different lines than if the goal is minimizing access to porn.

Parasocial relationships and getting sucked in by thirst traps on social media are inseparable.

I have a dumb question, but how do ewhores capitalize on this? Do they have teens running captcha farms or something?

They farm simps.

Can you explain how that's profitable when these people don't even have jobs? I believe you, I just don't understand how it works.

The people get shown advertising, and the advertisers are the ones paying money.

Scrolling through attractive women (generally the thirst-traps are women) doesn't imply forming a parasocial relationship. I agree that parasocial relationships are bad, but this is independent of them being thirst-traps. Internet thirst-traps are just the modern equivalent of sneaking a look at a playboy mag or a lingerie catalogue. Nothing inherently damaging about it. The scale of modern social media can make otherwise innocuous stimuli damaging, but this is also independent of it being content of sexy women.

“Nothing inherently damaging about it.”

I hear this claim from the pornsick but I’d like to see all the studies backing it up.

It's important to distinguish women looking sexy (generally not naked) from porn. Somehow the distinctions get blurred in these discussions.

You are the one claiming there's a problem, and you are the one (presumably) demanding legal and other action to deal with that "problem". That means that any burden of proof is 1000 percent on you.

... and before you haul out crap from BYU or whatever, be aware that some of us have actually read that work and know how poor it is.

> You think thirst traps are okay for kids?

Yes.

Promoting vaping, not so much.

> We’re in the later innings of a hyper-sexualized society.

O NOES!

I mean, that's a ridiculous thing to say, but if it were true, so what?

No one can scroll through my shit and get vape content. But granted, I am a walking vape ad with the name, touché.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I regret this name honestly, as there are a lot of high school and college aged people here.

You can email hn@ycombinator.com and request a name change if you don't like the connotations of your current name. Dan and Tom will rename accounts for people.

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