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gonna be real with you even when i’m absolutely fighting for my life i still return the cart or basket at the store. because i’m just a sicko i guess

thebrideofcaliban

I'm a for real disabled person who walks with a cane and has a disabled parking tag and is about to have a second back surgery, and I still return my carts and baskets to their proper place. There's no fuckin excuse. When you're checking out you can ask for help to your car if you think you will be unable to return your cart/basket. Literal bare minimum of treating service/retail workers like human beings.

ipoma

It's May 2024! I've been an illegal immigrant for 19 years, in the country I've lived in continuously since I was 3 years old. I'm 22 years old.

That's absurd, you might think. I agree! It shouldn't be possible, but alas!

I've finally managed to cut expenses to afford a lawyer and should hopefully, finally, get papers exactly 3 months from now. I'll get them by studying whatever 6 month course is available by then, whether I personally like the course or not.

I can afford the lawyer fees. I'm not making this post because I need it to survive (as was last year's 18th anniversary donation post, bc I'd gotten kicked out—I had to start the process without a lawyer and bc of that it couldn't get resolved and I had to start again), but because I've lived my entire life as an illegal immigrant and that's meant not getting to enjoy shit.

I feel like I deserve nice things after crying myself to sleep every night for years about an issue that's still ongoing (but will hopefully get resolved in 3 months). So here's where you come in, if you're feeling charitable. If your money is limited tho, please consider donating to Palestinians instead.

Consider donating to my Ko-Fi!

Consider reblogging my commission post! And even commissioning me!

(I'm struggling with getting back to drawing, after an extremely bad 2023 that I spent sick [due to long COVID] and depressed, so I might not be the fastest artist out there rn)

transvamp

ok lets settle it. which laios is getting the best dick rn

cicadaland

which laios is getting the best dick

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Voting ended onApr 28, 2024

autism-georg

memecucker

What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?

Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does

ms-demeanor

If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.

Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict.

This is a really good writeup.

bogleech

The people who believe in "porn addiction" do always seem to be either hyper religious or part of that weird atheistic purity culture, you know the one, the one that weirdly crosses over into keto diets, eugenics or anti vaccination fears, like they're channeling Dr. Kellogg's various phobias.