“<new thing of today> is corrupting our youth” is a complaint for which the documentary evidence is pretty much as old as records of writing go.
No one ever finds a solution, because before they do today has become yesterday, and the kids that were being “corrupted” are grown up and complaining about the new thing corrupting the new youth.
Porn might have issues like unrealistic portrayals of sex, but ultimately it's empowering for men. By helping guys to meet their sexual needs without depending on a relationship, this gives them greater freedom of choice. Without it, you would see a lot more guys staying in crappy relationships with people they don't like because they are dependent on them for sex.
Social media can make people depressed because they can more easily compare themselves with others. But ultimately, that's a good thing. When people advertise their success, it makes others more likely to emulate it. People see their friends making lots of money and traveling the world and it makes them feel bad, it makes them unhappy in the short term, but it also lets them know that they can do better and don't have to settle for what they have now.
Is something worse than 60 years ago that can be attributed to porn, if so what?
Without further commentary, the 'porn is ruining the children' was what pro-censorship religious groups argued in the 70s.
That's a wince for all of us non-paranoid folks.
I'd use torrents before giving up my privacy for the government
They are not 'our' boys and girls. It's their parents boys and girls.
Every day there is an article about teenagers anxiety, how can they not be anxious if people won't ever let them rub (or jill) one out in peace?
The chatter about the supposed harms of pornography and masturbation basically never originate from the medical science community, or from a scientific domain at all.
Ever since I've put these pieces together I take anyone that comes along going on about how they think porn is so bad with a monumental grain of salt.