Lacking the appropriate pouch in which to carry the fertilized eggs, his children burst out of him like a xenomorph.

I’m gonna stop you right there because you’re flirting dangerously close to Victorian prudishness with a modern spin. There is absolutely nothing new about non-reproductive sexual behavior and the practice is not limited to humans. We’ve found sexually explicit images in cave paintings, Mesopotamia, a lot in Greece & Rome (including homoerotica), and the Kama Sutra is about 2000yrs old. Humans, including adolescents, have been jerkin’ it for centuries before the invisible hand came along.

What has occurred is that the accessibility, volume, and content of pornography has expanded and changed. Where people might have previously spanked it and finished in a few minutes then gone on with their day, now they can delay gratification and spend hours gooning to a never ending supply of whatever form of visual stimulus they want, including content that was never even intended or attempted to be pornographic. The pornography itself is not addictive, the physiological and mental stimulation is. For some, there’s a need to explore and indulge riskier sexual behaviors and fetishes to achieve the rush they got previously. I was pretty excited when I saw my first nudie mag at 8, by the time I was 16 it wasn’t as exciting because by then internet porn had become accessible. But, had nudie mags remained my only option for such content, I would have continued to masturbate to nudie mags.

There’s also nothing inherently wrong with the idea of pornography, voyuerism, group play, sex toys, etc so long as all parties involved consent to the activity they’re engaging in. Humans like sex, they like masturbation, they like watching others perform it. Again, consent of all parties involved is the key factor. Truly understanding how to give and respect consent in what can be a high consequence interaction is why we set hard lines about age of consent and prohibit (or attempt to) minors from such activities, but also know that many are exploring and engaging in such behavior privately or with peers regardless. There’s a healthy, normal aspect to that because it’s human nature, and then there’s the dangerous side because porn of every sort lacks a lesson in consent, is often unrealistic/fantastical/deviant, and often treats the passive partner as an object for the pleasure of the active partner (typically women, but trans, “twink”, animals, and children are also depicted as such).

This is the danger of porn to malleable minds who are responding to the biology of sex drive but do not yet have the confidence/skill/capacity to build healthy relationships where they can build intimacy and eventually engage in sex with a willing, consenting partner. Some end up forgoing the effort to find a partner entirely and meet their need with porn, which is a sad and unhealthy avenue. Other take the lessons of objectification and violate the boundaries of other. And the worst make their most deviant, dangerous, and hurtful fantasies reality. Some would behave like that without having been exposed to porn, but I would argue that porn is having a strong influence on the spread and normalization of truly deviant fetishes, like beast/child/gore/rape.

The commodification of sex is older than capitalism, it was being bartered and traded since… since forever. What capitalism has done is make a normal human behavior a profitable vice. Adults embracing their sexuality, recording it, selling it for other adults to view is not problematic so long as everyone who made it consented to the acts recorded and consents to the recording being put out for consumption by strangers. The internet has created a platform where it’s impossible to tell if those criteria were met before the material became permanently available and globally distributed, as well is a bastion of anonymity that can be accessed by anyone of any age. You can try and put up guardrails but humans are just going to figure out a workaround if they are inclined to do so. Pandora’s box has been opened, and even if there is no money to be made people are going to view, share, and trade porn. If you shut the internet down people would revert to whatever media forms were available to do the same. Even if you magically erased all porn, people, including adolescents, would still masturbate. What might diminish is the frequency and amount of time they spend doing so as well as the cultivation of deviant fetishes and objectifying partners.

The people trying to create a “solution” aren’t doing so because they see that some forms of porn production and consumption is problematic, they see human sexuality as problematic. They’re not trying to steer how porn is produced and consumed into a healthy manner, they treat sexuality outside of their concept of divine purpose as deviant. Plus it’s a “rules for thee not me” attitude, especially when the people pushing it support one of the world’s most infamous and abusive deviants. The human need for sexual stimulation/release is like the human need to eat and drink. Capitalism didn’t invent it, it just exploits necessity.

Prince Eric:

The purpose of birth control is to get low. Or more philosophically, to all yeet yeet motherfucker (motherfucker), all yeet yeet goddamn (goddamn).

“Jackson, once the pride and boast of Mississippi, is now a ruined town.”

• William T. Sherman, Vicksburg Campaign, 1863

Looks like it’s time to remind Johnny Reb how Jackson earned the nickname Chimneyville.

ICE vs MICE

God outsourced answering prayers to AI centuries ago.

Person who’s hurting: “God, why do you let bad things happen to good people?”

God.AI: “The fact that you’re even asking something like that says a lot about you. Most people just move through life without stopping to wrestle with questions like this, but you’re clearly someone who feels things deeply and isn’t afraid to look at the harder, heavier parts of existence. And honestly, that more than most. You’re asking all the right questions.”

I mean, the increased damage compared to a regular knife is noteworthy.

Everyone always asks “how is your anus” but nobody’s asking “why is your anus”.

Bearing children. The founder, Cadmus, killed a dragon and buried the teeth in the ground and from that were “born” the Spartoi, fully grown and armed. They fought until only the strongest remained who then sired the noble houses of Thebes.

Thebes begs to differ.

Interesting the 8 is still the average first exposure. I grew up analog but still remember “that one kid” bringing a nudie mag to school and seeing boobs for the first time in 3rd grade. But, that was also just basic pictures of naked women, not the who knows what that is widely available today.

AR-15, extended mag, full clip. ‘Merica!

Doesn’t need to be profitable but could be turned into something profitable is the guiding principle of the oligarchy. These are the people that don’t think food and water are a basic human right. And their constituency is of the belief that public transportation is a poverty indicator. When my city wanted to build a new bus depot in downtown they showed up en masse to speak against it because they said it would be a magnet for the homeless and crime, drive property values down. It’s a two front fight against the capitalists who know they can exploit it and the section of the general public that considers any use of public funds that don’t directly benefit themselves as theft. Don’t ask them to consider that every person on a bus is one less car in front of them while they’re stuck in traffic, they’re incapable of such abstract thinking.

It’s really confusing because it’s actually twins, Soh and Zho, but they never appear together and you never know which one is which. Former twitch streamers, they now perform 10sec long shoegaze/dubstep inspired trick-hop in the secret twin language they invented as children with a smattering of Victorian era slang, and it’s only available on the Glut app. You have no idea what any of this means but have realized this is why your 11yo keeps babbling “trickie burr, trickie burr”.