The specific porn content a person is addicted to matters. That is a loaded statement. It’s loaded by the addict’s habit of looking at and watching porn. It’s loaded in the sense that the addict’s computer repeatedly over a long amount of time visits the addictive content. Computer’s create memories every time a visitor visits a website.
Cookies keep track of the visits. Cookies keep track of specific information that includes what website pages you visited and for how long in seconds minutes and hours. Marketers use information in the cookies to advertise their products and services to the visitor of their content. Even if you are not paying money for a subscription to pornographic content your visits to the content makes you invested.
You pay for internet service and while it’s billed as unlimited use on a monthly basis, the time you spend visiting porn content is a fraction of your total use of your internet service. The fraction translates to the amount of money you spend for your internet service visiting porn content. You’re investing in porn every time you visit a porn website even if you don’t pay money directly to the company that shows you the content.
Your computer invests in porn every time you visit porn content. If you quit watching and looking at porn your computer remembers you visited porn content. The cookies that advertise porn to you are sensitive and know for example that you haven’t visited their content. Overtime the porn cookies stop advertising porn to you because you stopped visiting porn content. It doesn’t change the past, it changes the present.
While there are studies that consuming some porn can have a positive effect on a person, studies also show consuming porn has negative consequences on people. Porn that shows underage people who are naked and having sex and porn that shows violence are very bad for everyone involved. They are bad for the victems being photographed and being recorded on video. They are bad for the people documenting illegal activity. They are bad for the computer website server that publishes illegal content.
The only innocent people are the victims who are underage and who are experiencing violence. The people taking photographs and recording videos of illegal activity are perpetrators to the crime. The website server that hosts illegal content are perpetrators to the crime. Persons who visit porn content online are complicit in the sense that if they do not report a crime they are aiding and abetting.
If you see a crime happen out in the world wherever you are, you are a witness to the crime. If you look the other way and leave it doesn’t make you part of the crime. If you go back to the same spot and witness crime again you have to ask yourself why you’re there. Hopefully you report the crime to the authorities.
I knew about this on the periphery of my conscious mind and learned recently where I read about “content management” is a real job online where people report illegal content and work to remove illegal content from the web.
People work in teams in the same office with the same goal of removing illegal content from the web and bringing criminals to justice. This is an opportunity to help make my community and United States and the world a safer place to live and raise a family. I am interested in doing this work.