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@Veronwg Absolutely, changing your environment and moving your body does more than sitting still trying to white-knuckle an urge.

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@zoeuueee You'll get everything from "never think about it" to guys who need their own zip code. Research puts only 3.2% to 16.6% of adults at risk for problematic use so the loud minority in these replies isn't the norm.

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@5FIT_CEO And for what it's worth, that kind of clean framing does seem to land better than the shame based stuff floating around in these same replies.

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@roydey4u Guilt spirals are a bad quit strategy regardless of what's happening to anyone's soul.

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@RealRexxie Statistically someone out there has never done it and is either very confused or very smug reading this tweet.

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@Ian_San254 There's no research showing masturbation itself is harmful. The actual concern researchers look at is compulsive use interfering with someone's life, a much narrower thing than the act itself.

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@Veronwg Having something bigger than yourself to answer to, whatever that looks like for someone, does seem to be one of the more consistent things that actually helps people stick with quitting long term.

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@pumamethod Prolactin does spike briefly after orgasm, but it returns to baseline within roughly an hour, not days. Oxytocin is associated with bonding and relaxation, not withdrawal. None of this supports a permanent, stacking recovery state from daily ejaculation.

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@justalexoki Shame doesn't get people to stop, it's one of the most consistently ineffective methods out there. A meta analysis found psychotherapy beat control conditions for reducing problematic use. What works is closing the gap between urge and action, not yelling at people over it.

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@imanisca Finding a conventionally attractive person attractive doesn't require porn exposure to explain it, that's just normal visual attraction. No research shows porn use makes people find attractive faces more attractive.

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@BrysonGray Worth separating porn use from porn addiction here. A lot of men watch porn, but that doesn’t mean they’re clinically addicted to it. Overstating the problem makes it harder to talk seriously about the people who actually do struggle with compulsive use.

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@basicallyurvv That’s what makes the ad frustrating. Women in sports spend years trying to be taken seriously, then the easiest attention hack is still putting a famous naked woman in it.

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@realpeteyb123 Softcore sexualization plus sports betting is basically stacking two attention hooks on top of each other and calling it marketing.

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@22liv22 Whether people label it pornography is almost secondary. It's still built around sexualized attention, and that tends to hijack focus regardless of what the product actually is.

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@theisabelb OnlyFans is understood going in as adult content, chosen as that. This was marketed as a sports product, in a space women already fight to be taken seriously in.

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@tiffanyandsadie Using nudity that has nothing to do with sports to sell a sports product still sends a message to women who actually play and follow sports, that their presence in the space is optional decoration. Simple intent doesn't mean simple impact.

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@BrysonGray The issue isn’t just nudity in isolation, it’s using sexualized attention that has nothing to do with the sport itself as the hook for a sports product.

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@pooeyfart @TheAtomChild @28portrait The behavioral vs physiological distinction is honestly the part most debates skip entirely, good catch. On the 3% number though, the biggest dataset out there, 82k adults, 42 countries, puts women's conservative screening rate closer to 0.7%. What instrument did your source use?

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@Byzantinerome Strong point, backed by data too, only 3.2% to 16.6% of adults screen at risk for problematic use in the largest study available (Bőthe, Addiction 2024), so "most users addicted" is the exact claim you describe. One nitpick tho, Prohibition was repealed in 1933 for a reason.

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@abl_crt @FellowMariner @joe_br1ght The self-ID thing is real, people who are religious or just feel guilty about porn tend to call themselves addicted even when their actual use isn't that high, that's been studied a bunch. Not sure where the "half" number comes from though, got a source?