It comes after a law blocking such a move was overturned.

Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

  • totallynotarobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    496·
    1 year ago

    While they’re at it they could add “potential to cause spontaneous human combustion” or “potentially damaging to time-space continuum.” Potentially. I’m no porn fan, but my understanding is the evidence on the addictiveness claims is super weak.

    The causal arrow between porn and the brain development thing could easily go either way. It’s hard to tell.

      • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
        83·
        1 year ago

        It must, that label is on everything, so it effectively means nothing. This exchange happened between my wife and I a couple months ago

        ‘oh honey look…this pink Himalayan salt, which expires in…2 weeks?!? is known to the state of cancer to cause California. Ah, science. What a time to be alive’

        • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          The amount of lead in Himalayan salt (it’s mined from mountains in Pakistan) can be above allowed limits, and especially can cause developmental issues in children. Europe has same or possibly more stringent lead expectations.

          I guess the two takes could be “ugh California has warnings on everything so it’s meaningless” or “wow, FDA really doesn’t give a fuck and allows all this stuff to go unchecked”

          • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            They’re usually vinyl (PVC), and it probably does. At least it would if you ingest or burn it. Burning it could release chlorine, too, so the cancer might be the least of your worries.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1116·
      1 year ago

      I mean, there’s such a thing as being addicted to porn. I fall to see how you get such an addiction without looking at it

      • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yes, but there’s such a thing as being addicted to sex, too, and pretty much any pleasurable activity. It’s generally pretty rare.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Causation vs. Correlation. Porn addicts have obviously watched porn. But that doesn’t mean that watching porn causes porn addiction.

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          It’s like saying drug addicts have obviously used drugs, but it’s only correlated to their addiction