Bless you for including sources right away. So refreshing to see that.

I love that this sparked so much discussion. My point was creating obstacles to seeing naked people is a powerful motivator to learn how to overcome those obstacles, and depending, could result in valuable/marketable skills.

That was not a statement against porn so much as an observation that the anti-porn crusade has inspired countless burgeoning software developers to uh... rise to the occasion.

I don't think his argument is that we should restrict anything, more so that circumvention requires learning, and is a great motivator. I definitely can +1 this from my own youth. Learning how to bypass well-intentioned internet protections on school computers so I could play flash games sparked an interest in technology that I may never have discovered otherwise.

It's a weird internal conflict to know that my core is shaped by an experience I otherwise believe shouldn't exist in a reasonable society.

I think porn for kids is a huge mistake and a very bad idea for humans in general. It builds fantasies in kids’ heads that don’t happen in a normal relationship. Basically, they raise the bar too high for kids and set their expectations too high that normal sex becomes straight up bad.

That of course doesn’t mean I agree with age verification. There has to be a better way to “protect the children” than fucking everyone else up.

Edit: the fact that this comment now has negative votes scares the shit out of me.

Access to the porn that appears on the internet has nothing whatsoever to do with normal sexual development. Kids don't need to know about anal prolapse videos.