Is porn actually harmless, or are we just pretending?

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, Basman said:

 Prove it then.

Prove what? That triggering a neuronal response tends to lead to desensitization especially if it's a hedonic stimulus and not a noxious stimulus?

Here is a thing about studies: they don't actually "prove" anything. They provide evidence for or against. They update your priors. Finding a specific theoretical rationale based on more general connections between basic (strongly scientifically supported) concepts does fundamentally the same thing. It's all probabilistic at the end of the day. A specific study, or two, or three, is just one step further in the process.

If your only approach to epistemology is to read the conclusion of one or two studies from Dickwad University with a crappy self-report-based correlative design and paper-thin sample sizes and barely <.05 p-values and mixed results between 10 comparative measures, that's your prerogative.

Edited 8 hours ago by Carl-Richard