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What issues do porn cause?
That actually applies to the other things listed here, too.
The mind games are from red and black pill communities, and before that from the PUA community. As far as I know those are not related to porn directly, or even indirectly.
Actresses aren't exploited, they're usually the ones who earn the most, work on it voluntarily, can quit at any time, and most, from the interviews I've seen, enjoy working in the field quite a bit. I've also read field studies with sex worker and the vast majority of women working on it, nowadays at least, do like it and feel empowered by doing so, since they set their own rules. Do you have examples of it being exploitative? And how prevalent are those?
The last two I can agree with.
According to my dad the Catholic Church tried when he was in elementary school, but he brags that Satan was too strong with him.
It doesn’t harm people. It’s just cringe.
> we keep it there for profiling reasons; we also have the Pet Shop Boys and Seal
China and a lot of islamic and east-asian countries also banned porn and guess what, they're some of the biggest porn watchers in the world because VPNs are a thing and people are hooked for lack of better alternatives because their lives are not amazing and beating their meat to porn is one of the few cheap escapisms they have. If it's legal, at least it's a problem we can openly admit, talk and address through official education and care programs.
>Betting
Same as above, it's escapism for desperate people. People gamble more when the economy and their lives are FUBAR, even if it's banned. You're focusing on the effect instead of the cause. We already tried banning vices before with prohibition and it didn't stop shit, it just moved underground. What I think should happen is gambling should not be allowed to be advertised at all both online and offline, and should not be so easily accessible like on your phone or close to where people live. People get hooked because the first hit so so accessible and frictionless nowadays and ads are everywhere. That needs to stop. You wanna gamble, go to a dedicated regulated casino far out of town and you can only gamble limited amounts, not be able to connect your checking account to the pokie machine.
>onlyfans
That's the digital version of the world's oldest profession and it survived for thousands of years for a reason. Good luck banning it, I'm sure you can somehow end something that's been prevalent since the dawn of humanity.
I'm old enough to remember early internet social media sites of late 90s to early 00s, and women there were posting naked pics of themselves online FOR FREE, just to farm compliments and admiration from strange men online, and that was way before Instagram and onlyfans would allow you to monetize your looks. You won't fix the biological attention seeking female behavior and the male attraction to female looks, by banning onlyfans. I would suggest education, a strong father figure present in the family and therapy.
>should all be banned for a healthy society
Like I agree with you in principle, that those things are bad and ideally should not exist, but the thing is that all of the above are effects of a decaying morally and financially bankrupt society full of atomized people chasing money and attention to survive and get meaning, that lack opportunities, families, strong communities, strong support networks and a societal fabric tying them together(in the past it used to be religion). They indulge in vices because they have nothing better to live for. Banning those vices won't fix this, they'll just find new hedonistic way to ruin their lives. The true solution is addressing the cause, not the effect.
Just like how in the 1984 movie/book, they were given generous portions of gin to drink at work lunch break even though they had food shortages.
Same how china and former communist states banned a lot of them on paper, but they still low-key exist in an underground economy where the party closes its eyes to its existence until it needs to arrest someone for political reasons and making use of banned vices is a perfect excuse.