[pavel_lishin]

Any studies from non-religious sources?

[arandomusername]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571756/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/... https://extension.usu.edu/relationships/research/effects-of-... https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/is-pornography-h...

Also those only focus on the user. The pornography business itself is a lot more horrible as it's closely linked with sex trafficking.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Is nih.gov a religious source, or was the comment edited after yours?

[shagie]

NIH hosts papers. It is not an authority by itself.

The NIH paper is from the following authors:

    Haseeb Mehmood Qadri, corresponding author 1 Abdul Waheed,1 Ali Munawar,2 Hasan Saeed,3 Saad Abdullah,4 Tayyba Munawar,1 Shaheer Luqman,1 Junaid Saffi,1 Awais Ahmad,5 and Muhammad Saad Baba r6

    1 Surgery, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK
    2 Surgery, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, PAK
    3 Pathology, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, PAK
    4 General Surgery, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, PAK
    5 Surgery, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, PAK
    6 General Surgery, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, PAK

Pakistan may have a strongly religious influence on its faculty... and I'm going to ask what expertise surgeons have on the subject mater compared to the layman.