thinking about it more this might be a "circle the ranks" political decision but. interesting.

[stardust_rifle]

Theory, am open to further data points on this.

While a lot of the personal attributes that people point to determining which "side" you're on in the anti/pro debate (being a survivor, being kinky, age, nationality, religion, being trans) are merely predictive or not actually correlated to any particular side, I think I may (emphasis on MAY) have found something that is absolutely determanitive of what "side" you wind up on.

Again, I am open to correction on this, but I don't think I've ever seen an anti talking about having had good experiences with easily-available internet pornography or a pro having had bad experiences with the same.

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[hellofriendsiminthedark]

I've seen profiction folks talk about seeing unwanted and disturbing internet porn/gore, but then using that to explain why that justifies the importance of things like robust sex ed, filterable content/tagging, and parents who don't jump right to punishment when their kids try to approach them with questions/concerns. I suppose how applicable experiences are to "side" depends on how each side is being defined.

[feotakahari]

Yeah, I googled once to find out what all the references to “Bible Black” on TV Tropes were about. That was not a fun time.

[stardust_rifle]

Well, whenever profic people bring up the tagging/blocking issue, they sort of do it in these very general terms without bringing up their own personal experiences. I've just noticed this trend where people who self-identify as "pro-(x)", when bringing up personal experiences with internet pornography, only talk about how it was a net-positive or net-neutral, where as self-identified antis, when bringing up personal experiences of broadly available internet pornography, treat their experience with it as net-negative.

This has been, in this author's experience, so utterly predictive of self-identified allegiance, that I was curious if any pros believed if their experience with broadly available internet pornography was net-negative but were still pros anyway, or any antis who saw their experience as net-neutral/positive but were still antis anyway.

[hellofriendsiminthedark]

Hmm, yeah that would be interesting: "I really found myself through the things I stumbled into online and it helped me a lot but I believe it's still wrong" or "the depths of the internet have overall been so horrible for me but it should still be available to others."