• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      … and now i finally understand what blorbo means. i mean i still had to look it up but this prompted me to look it up and this time it actually clicked

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        I mean… Castrating 75% of the population would certainly put a damper on our rapid population growth, which would be good for everything except humans.

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          Human population growth is already plateaued and in the most developed nations it’s already net negative. in order to sustain break-even (human) population levels, there must be no fewer than 2.1 offspring born, on average, per {gestational reproductive caste specimen}<irrespective of masculine or feminine configuration>.

          The human population of South Korea’s last reported birthrate is 0.78.
          In japan, 1.26.
          In the united states, 1.66.

          There will be so few able bodied humans extant to perform basic upkeep in 20 years that fundamental infrastructural systems will not JUST be crumbling to dust from sheer neglect as they are now, but actively self-destructing from sustained systemic cascade failure.

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            There will be so few able bodied humans extant to perform basic upkeep in 20 years that fundamental infrastructural systems will not JUST be crumbling to dust from sheer neglect as they are now, but actively self-destructing from sustained systemic cascade failure.

            Pretty doomerist of you. I’m honestly not concerned about declining populations. Better for the environment, and we’ll figure out the rest through straightforward economics.

            • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              I hope so too. One of the key problems you have is taking care of the elderly and infirm with less and less of the younger generation around. It’s a hard one to solve economically without being like “I guess just let them die”.

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                As the size of the working population declines, labor will reallocate itself from less necessary positions to more necessary ones. So the proportion of the population that would have worked at McDonalds, for example, would work in nursing homes instead.

                • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  You’re right and that’s exactly where the problem arises. We’re seeing projections in some places where the need for care workers of various types looks like it will be larger than that countries workforce can bear. I.e., at current levels, there wouldn’t be anyone to work at McDonald’s but then also not enough to work in more necessary roles, basic government, infrastructure, etc.

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                  You think putting fries in a bag is the same as providing cafe to the elderly? This is some DOGE level planning.

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            Hence, good for everything except humans. And the global population is still rising, though as you said developed countries are responsible for very little of that growth.

            • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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              oh yeah no i was just agreeing with you on a ‘yes-and’ basis and stuff

              the only reason any developed nation is population-positive right now is due to immigration – and now that america is cracking down on that… i wonder if we’ll actually see the population decrease soon.

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                There’s a reason Trump wants to give medals to women who have multiple kids, dangle a one-off shiny bauble as if that’ll offset the costs of having the kids.

                Australia has been giving couples $5k for their first kid for the last couple of decades, hasn’t helped and our birth rate has dropped to 1.50.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a good chance they’re porn consumers themselves and just feel weirdly shameful.

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    Tumbler people need to touch grass apparently. That’s the most 4chan thing I ever read from there

  • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I think that the ones who should be punished are the politicians and leaders that have allowed easy to access and free porn to be available to 12 year olds for decades now. While these puritanical pearl clutchers go after cigarettes, drugs, the wOKe AgeNda, piracy and anything else that makes it look like they actually give a shit about society; they’ve oddly turned a blind eye to kids consuming aggressive porn where women are treated like fleshlights and incest fantasies abound. Almost in the same way that they’ve turned a blind eye to the fact that being a priest makes you very likely to also be a pedo.

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    Interesting that all the assumptions of torturing producers and consumers are geared toward men. As though women don’t produce or consume porn.

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      Or as if gay porn wasn’t a thing. It is funny when you realize how anti-men people do mental gymnastics for this kind of stuff, yet on the same breath state that sex work is real work, when pointed at OF “models”, or anything that is lucrative for women.

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        So many people aren’t even anti-men, it’s just that they don’t respect women enough to consider them capable of anything distasteful(unless they can use it to force them to do things for them). It’s like how people lose their minds over trans women but say nothing about trans men. And, honestly, as a straight man from the start, we have a terrible history that, as a group, we are doing far too little to grow out of despite having so many tools and so much power available to us. I kinda get it.

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          I fully agree with that first half of the statement, and seeing women as nothing but things, incapable of evil, of plotting, murdering, mass murdering or any other distasteful thing.

          But then on the next few lines you show similar views with collective responsibility, on how straight men have a terrible history, and that we’re doing far too little to grow out of.

          People are not monolithic, and while sure, you can state statistics, judging everyone for the crimes of many or few they share characteristics out of their control with, is a very fucked up thing.

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            I literally said “as a group”, which implies that it is a generalization and I am well aware that there exceptions. I myself am generally considered to be one such exception by many women I meet and I am quite proud of that and the work I’ve put in to get there.

            We, AS A WHOLE, are still not able to make women AS A WHOLE feel safe. They are choosing the bear and they are not wrong to just because a couple nice men exist somewhere. There’re also awful women out there, but I’m FAR more confident that I’d be safe around a random women than a woman would be around a strange man and no amount me of trying to be a victim will change that for the better.

  • quack@lemmy.zip
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    These takes bother me a lot less when I remember that there is a very high chance that the person making them is literally 14.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com
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    I make porn

    It features me, and when we get a chance (LDR), my fiancée

    Our goal is to make erotic content that features regular (well, slightly unconventional admittedly…) people with regular bodies

    We’d actually like to make stuff that is also educational

    Whackos like this are deeply disturbed people

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      so you like wave your fists in the air a lot or…

      /just joking, I don’t give 1 or 2 shits

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      Our goal is to make erotic content that features regular (well, slightly unconventional admittedly…) people with regular bodies

      So… are you saying you aren’t hot? Because I kinda doubt the market penetration you’ll get if you aren’t hot.

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        She’s the most beautiful woman in the world

        She thinks I’m good looking

        She posts on reddit, and I used to. She is very popular! I had more of a cult following given the kind of content I make

        But, for obvious reasons, we’re not showing our faces

        Also, we don’t give a damn about market penetration. We don’t charge, and we don’t want to

        Educational content should be free, and we do it because we enjoy it. We don’t want it to become a chore

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          The way you are sidestepping the question makes the answer obvious.

          I wish you the best. But at the same time, I doubt you’ll reach many people without a product that most people actually want to enjoy.

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    Most of the good porn is amateur couples anyway. Wonder what their take on that would be.

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    Having spent too much time on tumblr… I wish I could say this is uncommon. Tumblr moderation also leaves a lot to be desired and even before the last layoff the site has been running on fumes in terms of support.

    Tumblr is, sadly, a huge hotbed for anti-sex radfem rhetoric and has absorbed a lot of it into a larger movement built on top of ship wars. In the 2010s, bigger radfem accounts realized they could use tumblr ship culture as a recruitment strategy and it worked unfortunately well. It’s only gone downhill since then, with more and more extreme views taking over as people who aren’t this rabid get harassed or bullied out of these spaces.

    There are a shocking amount of supposedly liberal identifying, and even queer identifying, young people on tumblr who are violently anti sex and anti porn for this reason. It’s also very common to get death threats and harassment on tumblr. These views have only been amplified by the culture on tik tok. The paranoia and moral panic around sex and media isn’t really new (every generation seems to have one) but its difficult to work with because they are very empowered by this idea of righteousness when they engage in this kind of behavior, and like other reactionary movements thrive on the attention they get.

    Anecdotally, I can tell you these folks have very black and white thinking and a lot of them are projecting HARD. Guaranteed at least one of them runs like, a vore blog where they swear up and down that it’s a “SFW vore blog” and not “one of those gross kinks”.

    There are still a lot of parts of tumblr that are fairly nice though. If you’re willing to block early and often, you can find a solid community of people.

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      The paranoia and moral panic around sex and media isn’t really new (every generation seems to have one)

      Yeah, but usually it happens after they have kids