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Counterpoint, as a child I happily consumed plenty of "age-inappropriate" material with absolutely no negative ramifications, and I consider the whole thing to be an overblown moral panic, even leaving aside my anecdata.
I'm within 2-5 years of having a kid of my own (Jesus time flies), and I fully intend to let them do whatever the fuck they like on the internet, as long as it isn't spending my money on gacha games and lootboxes.
They'll get smartphones, tablets, PCs and VR as soon as they can use them, assuming I can wrangle their potential mother into agreement. The only reason I'd ever withhold access to any of them is because they've demonstrated that they can't help but abuse them.
Also, the odds of any child born after today ever having to worry about leaked nudes is minuscule verging on nonexistent, given the existence of deepfakes as plausible deniability, let alone panopticon surveillance for child porn if they're young enough. That's completely leaving aside that I expect the world to be nigh unrecognizable in 10 years or so, if we're even alive to see it.
Well, count yourself lucky. (that is, if you know you can count yourself lucky. Do you wake up with morning erections regularly, like you should at your age ? No problems having sex ? No problems with anhedonia, lack of motivation, flat emotions ?)
Tens of millions of people aren't.
The question is how much of that is attributable to the consumption of "age-inappropriate media". It's not that hard to find tens of millions of people suffering from most things that vague, in a population of 8 billion after all.
I am clinically depressed, but that was only an issue after high school, and if I go a few days without jerking off, I'm as randy as a goat.
You didn't answer the question.
It's very likely related as there are no other good explanations for why people with these symptoms suffer withdrawal symptoms associated with psychological dependence.
Or, you know, lack morning erections entirely, which means either severe depression or serious lack of testosterone.
You asked plenty of questions, to answer them.
Yes I have morning wood, thanks for asking.
No to the latter.
I already said I'm clinically depressed, but that the circumstances behind it have no bearing to your hypothesis.
Who exactly are "these people"? I do not deny that porn addiction with concomitant problems is real, my assertion is that it's not meaningfully linked to Western prudishness about what is and isn't appropriate for kids.
Western prudishness about what is and isn't acceptable to kids is based on quite old concerns about compulsive masturbation, which was probably far less crippling and prevalent than pornography addiction.
I'd not be surprised if at some point knowingly giving access to pornography to minors was made a criminal offense within the next 20 years in some western country.
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