https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/porn-industry-jumps-into-presidential-campaign-targeting-project-2025/

  • your_moms_account [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    Among men ages 18-29, 44% had watched porn within the past month. Among men ages 30-49, it was 57%.

    Side-track but isn't it interesting that it's higher in the 30+

    An explanation jumps to my mind.

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      1 month ago

      This surprises me, actually. I was under the impression that young people are having less sex than before, so I would have thought that that (along with the proliferation of smartphones) would lead to higher rates of porn consumption. But then again, maybe the high rates of congruent depression thanks to their grim present and even grimmer future has tanked their libidos so hard that they can't even muster up the energy to open up a PornHub tab doomscroll

      • june [she/her]
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        1 month ago

        It could also be that there is more awareness of the problems with chronic masturbation/porn consumption as they grew up aware of issues like incels