I hope we all know this and are just doing it as a bit, but sometimes I do see shit on this website that makes me go “Oh y’all are genuinely just weird prudes”
The “gooner epidemic” is not real, gooning is an incredibly niche kink that very few people engage in.
“Porn addiction” is basically non existent and affects such a small portion of the population as to not be relevant. The idea that most people have in their heads about porn addiction is propaganda made up by evangelicals.
We do not live in an overly-sexually-liberated time. There is not an excess of sexual content or exposure to it.
Most of the time when people talk about “the gooner problem” what they’re actually talking about is a mix of two unrelated things, people living normal sexually liberated lives, and undersocialized young men that don’t know how to interact with people.
Sex is good. We should be having more of it. We should encourage healthy, safe sex featuring whatever kinks you and your partner(s) consent to. Don’t fall for puritan propaganda comrades.
You disagree with experts on the topic then. “Porn addiction is not real” is the opinion of the WHO and APA among many other groups. This is the academic consensus.
People talking about porn is not evidence of addiction, nor is being caught watching porn. Would you say people are addicted to Star Wars because every conversation lately ends up about Andor? The fact that people are uncomfortable talking about porn is itself evidence of us living in a puritanical culture.
Also as a generally male-presenting non-binary person this is not my experience talking to men, porn really does not come up that often at all.
Again I don’t see how this is evidence of anything. “I had to experience a thing people talk about during drinking games in order to answer those questions” yeah? I had to watch Friends because it comes up during bar trivia all the time. That is not evidence of widespread Friends addiction.