Porn is damaging at multiple levels, specially for young adults to say nothing of "children".
+Should be clear is that exposing children to porn or normalizing porn in no way promotes "healthy economies" either.
+Should be clear is that exposing children to porn or normalizing porn in no way promotes "healthy economies" either.
No, they do, they do it the whole time. Those might not the problems you care about, and not all attempts might be successful, but each new or changed law/regulation is fixing something. And there are many new of them over the year.
Multiple studies have shown that porn, in and of itself, is not damaging. The phenomenon of "porn addiction" appears to come entirely from people who think they shouldn't be looking at porn for various (mostly religious) reasons still looking at it, and feeling shame.
The BBC did a documentary about the knowledge of porn among kids, and how 16-year-olds go to the doctor's office saying they don't have erections...
> People who believe they have a porn addiction typically think their sexual behaviors are abnormal.
> In reality, however, their sexual behaviors tend to be similar to others'.
> Porn addiction typically involves a moral incongruence between sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors.
> By medicalizing problematic porn use, people can avoid taking personal responsibility for sexual behaviors.