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by lupusreal 257 days ago
Because parasocial relationships with ewhores isn't healthy, particularly at a stage in their life when they should be forming real relationships with their peers.
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Scrolling through attractive women (generally the thirst-traps are women) doesn't imply forming a parasocial relationship. I agree that parasocial relationships are bad, but this is independent of them being thirst-traps. Internet thirst-traps are just the modern equivalent of sneaking a look at a playboy mag or a lingerie catalogue. Nothing inherently damaging about it. The scale of modern social media can make otherwise innocuous stimuli damaging, but this is also independent of it being content of sexy women.
“Nothing inherently damaging about it.”

I hear this claim from the pornsick but I’d like to see all the studies backing it up.

It's important to distinguish women looking sexy (generally not naked) from porn. Somehow the distinctions get blurred in these discussions.
You are the one claiming there's a problem, and you are the one (presumably) demanding legal and other action to deal with that "problem". That means that any burden of proof is 1000 percent on you.

... and before you haul out crap from BYU or whatever, be aware that some of us have actually read that work and know how poor it is.

Parasocial relationships are a different topic than pornography.

Are you saying that the intersection is uniquely bad? In either case limits to content made in an effort to minimize parasocial relationships cut across very different lines than if the goal is minimizing access to porn.

Parasocial relationships and getting sucked in by thirst traps on social media are inseparable.
I have a dumb question, but how do ewhores capitalize on this? Do they have teens running captcha farms or something?
They farm simps.
Can you explain how that's profitable when these people don't even have jobs? I believe you, I just don't understand how it works.
The people get shown advertising, and the advertisers are the ones paying money.