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by olliesaunders 5964 days ago
There's a word for such things: catharsis.
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And, apparently, according to some research, it's not always a good thing: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1023445...
That's just for anger though.
Yes, but that was the argument that xcombinator lead with; that expressing violence in a controlled manner is a good thing - which is contradicted by research. Anyway, the idea that masturbating over fictional depictions of child sex is somehow preventative of actual child sex abuse is orthogonal to the problem being discussed here.