[nojonestownpls]

Some people will have their fix anyway, while others will find that the friction starts to change their habits away from it. Unless you believe access friction has no psychological impact at all.

And the friction is going to be especially impactful if you're a young teen and haven't been hooked into it as a habit yet.

I speak partially from experience, as someone from a country with a lot of porn blocked. It was super annoying at first, but I just (mostly subconsciously) shifted to written erotica and other forms of erotic media. Sexual need is of course a deep seated human need, but porn is hardly the only way to deal with it, and in fact is one of the least healthy ways. There's a lot of f'ed up erotica out there, but in the end it's still much easier to see the characters as people and remember that sex happens in the larger context of life.

[mrtranscendence]

> Some people will have their fix anyway, while others will find that the friction starts to change their habits away from it.

Yeah, I think people forget in these discussions how costs work. Making drug / alcohol / pornography usage illegal increases the costs involved, and these cost increases will reduce demand for at least some consumers.

For example, I can't smoke weed because then I can't get Adderall. That's a kind of local prohibition. I could go to the black market for both weed and Adderall but I'm not going to do that, so prohibition has worked here.