The piece misses a crucial layer of spiritual depth, reducing complex human struggles to mere moral conflicts without grappling with the existential weight they carry.
Al Goldstein’s brash claim—that porn defies Christian culture and elevates the self above God [1] points to a deeper void that this article’s clinical focus ignores.
Its data-driven approach feels hollow when it sidesteps the soul-searching questions that often define these experiences.
This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists. It also has nothing to say about the way that onlyfans et al "revolutionized" the porn industry by creating a multibillion dollar MLM that exploits both its creator/employees and consumers with different but equally questionable fictions that normalized the purchase and production of pornography to new segments of the population.
> This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists.
Citation needed. Secular feminists have always been there. They don't seem any more dominant to me. But I'm prepared to be convinced. By actual evidence of some kind.
Also, you're completely missing the point. The article is about people who have issues with their own porn use. The secular feminists you're talking about aren't the people who (a) believe they're addicted to porn and (b) are having problems with feeling bad about it.
Porn looks (to me) like stupid theater for stupid masses. Similar to wrestling in spandex costumes. Please don't wank or squirt in my direction.
IN THICK BLACK EDDING: And keep the futa away from the freckled ginger forest fairies with puffy nippled perky tits!
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The piece misses a crucial layer of spiritual depth, reducing complex human struggles to mere moral conflicts without grappling with the existential weight they carry.
Al Goldstein’s brash claim—that porn defies Christian culture and elevates the self above God [1] points to a deeper void that this article’s clinical focus ignores.
Its data-driven approach feels hollow when it sidesteps the soul-searching questions that often define these experiences.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Goldstein#Views_on_religion
What's more interesting is - how did this guy manage to make a whole career out of this one single topic? This is academia now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Ley
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This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists. It also has nothing to say about the way that onlyfans et al "revolutionized" the porn industry by creating a multibillion dollar MLM that exploits both its creator/employees and consumers with different but equally questionable fictions that normalized the purchase and production of pornography to new segments of the population.
> This is about a meta analysis from 2018 and therefore misses that the biggest recent growth in the anti-porn movement has been among secular feminists.
Citation needed. Secular feminists have always been there. They don't seem any more dominant to me. But I'm prepared to be convinced. By actual evidence of some kind.
Also, you're completely missing the point. The article is about people who have issues with their own porn use. The secular feminists you're talking about aren't the people who (a) believe they're addicted to porn and (b) are having problems with feeling bad about it.