[eldritch_4ier]

It’s probably about as dangerous to minors as sitting the minor in a room while 2 consenting adults have sex, or taking that minor to a strip club. Does the screen itself prevent trauma? Would you be ok with having your child exposed to either of these?

What about a gentle and loving uncle molesting a child in a way not much different from playful wrestling? Wrestling is fine, but we all recognize the molestation is incredibly harmful, even in this situation (because the harm isn’t the violence of it, it’s the actual sex itself).

This is just common sense. Of course sexualizing (sexually activating) children (which porn does) at a young age is harmful. It’s probably very harmful to adults too in large doses like porn addiction.

[newswasboring]

> It’s probably about as dangerous to minors as sitting the minor in a room while 2 consenting adults have sex, or taking that minor to a strip club.

I think you have not seen the average porn online these days. Its way, way more extreme than this.

[vxNsr]

More likely they have not had sex or been to a strip club.

Whenever I see people argue that porn is just like sex they always turn out to be minors or young adults who have only ever experienced porn and not intimate relationships.

[filoleg]

That's a solid hypothesis.

After being to strip clubs just twice in my life, and with both of those being very different experiences, I have to agree with you. Comparing it to porn (let alone an actual intimate relationship) is like comparing watching fast & furious movies to average driving experiences. While F&F movies are technically more wild, the real life experience of actual driving (even if it is technically waaay more mild than in the movies) is way more stressful/impactful/etc, to the point where even making the comparison feels ridiculous.

[newswasboring]

That feels like a cruel assumption to make. But I think that says more about me than them.

[vxNsr]

I don’t think it’s cruel. There’s nothing wrong with not having certain life experiences. I think it’s wrong to make assertions without knowing all the facts which is what these types of people do all the time. (See /r/relationships for many examples).

[Aachen]

GP was asking precisely because it is not common sense.