• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    The question is: (and we can’t have a viable safety study about it) If someone is interested and avoiding it, does feeding make it harder for them to avoid doing horrible things?

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      50 minutes ago

      There’s another question. Does interest in pictures translates to interest in “similar” people.

      I enjoy a lot of things in various media, including a very broad spectrum that ranges from old animation to historical movies, but don’t really care getting close to people beyond basic social interactions, to the point I’m mostly avoiding places I’m not required to be at most of the time.

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        36 minutes ago

        I honestly don’t know how that translates. Based on the gravity of the wrongs and people seeming inability to stop on their own, I assumed it was more like an addictionm which would be a bit different than an affitinty for movies and places.

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      8 hours ago

      That is a good question. It seems like perhaps it would take the edge off. I mean, masturbating to porn doesn’t exactly make one horny in real life.

      Then again, it probably does do something bad to how one sees others in real life.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, I have no idea what the proper answer is. I don’t know if it would have a methadone effect or if it’d be treating an alcoholic with heroin.