I’ve always thought it interesting that people say that porn leads to people being incapable of relationships.
It’s like, no, obviously plenty of people who watch porn are capable of being in relationships.
The reality is that people who ALREADY have trouble with relationships use porn a lot.
Similarly, drugs don’t tend to be step one in a person’s life being messed up. The drugs are usually the coping mechanism, not the cause.
And yet, they ban all drugs, rather than putting time and effort to making people’s lives better.
You want to reduce porn usage? Have mandatory comprehensive social interaction classes for EVERYONE, including dating, including concepts like consent and flirting and asking people out. It should be a class that EVERY student has, and it should be EVERY year. So no one gets left behind.
You want to reduce drug usage? Have those mandatory social interaction classes AND have classes to cover things that people typically struggle with in life. Connect psychologists, financial organizations, and other professions with educators so that people in those professions can anonymously give data about the issues that people struggle with in life, and work to make sure that classes to deal with those aspects of life happen BEFORE the times when those issues normally tend to pop up in people’s lives. Coping classes need to be mandatory.
Drug use will fall through the floor if people are taught coping strategies before they need them in as many areas of life as possible.
Fat shaming makes people feel hopeless and actually encourages depression which causes overeating.
People who fat shame KNOW they are causing people to be fat. They’re not fat shaming out of concern for others.
It is openly to damage those other people’s lives, because the people doing the shaming are looking for a way to make themselves feel good, and fat shaming gives them a positive feeling.