look man, if i have to present id to go and buy cigarettes or beer and be 18+. if i need to be 18+ to use a credit card, and that too will require some id and filling out some forms. then why should it be fine for porn companies to just allow *anyone* to see not just people fucking, but depraved things like putting a cock in the intestinal tract or women licking such a place. anyone also includes children or teenagers who have a lot of hormones and strong desire and interest in sex. the most impressionable people. so it's not even calling for a "ban" where you would say that you can't watch porn if you want. but companies should be fined if they're caught displaying porn ads on sites which haven't done any kind of age verification. and they don't verify members age themselves. the "18+ age gate" just a box that a 13 year old is going to say yes to. nobody checks it. my own experience with porn was 16, when we got very good internet and i'd seen one of these porn gif ads showing a woman seductively and of course i'd clicked it out of curiosity and then before i know it i'm on a video site that's showing a woman being sodomised. porn and masturbating at least once, often two or three times a day. it was worse than alcohol. because if you do some teen drinking, it's usually on the weekends. at most, you might lose an evening and then a part of the following day due to a hangover. but porn sapped my will power. i had a lot of projects i was interested in: electronics, programming and so on. went by the wayside. it took me until my 30s to eventually stop using porn so much and get my life together. keep in mind that it was easier for me to go completely sober than to quit porn entirely. i was never into deprived shit, but amateur stuff, girls with 10/10 body, having normal sex, was something i found hard to give up entirely.
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