Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:

  • Changes: Certain content now allowed with labels
  • Artistic Nudity: Permitted under Sexual Themes Label
  • Game Nudity: Contextual; labels necessary
  • Body Painting: Acceptable with appropriate label
  • Mature Games: Label generally covers content
  • Stream Visibility: Impacted by content labels
  • Twerking, grinding and pole dancing are now allowed without a label.

Via https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1735024184114245689

  • @[email protected]
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    92 years ago

    Sorry… What category to choose for grinding a dildo on my fanny?? Or is Retro fine as long as I add a label?

    • @[email protected]
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      It basically means trend. It’s sorta evolved from the concept of “metagaming” where you’re not just playing the game, you’re gaming the game. People now use “the meta” to refer to the collection of viable strategies for a game, and “the current meta” to refer to what is popular at this moment. This could be types of decks in a card game, character builds in an MMO or a MOBA, or other things like that. Presumably, for twitch, “the meta” is referring to not strategies of playing games, but strategies of gaming twitch. In other words, strategies to maximize viewership and income, and specifically, what is working at any given time.

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        I’ve seen some people debate whether “meta” means “applying a concept to itself” or “most effective tactic available”. In gaming, both kind of make sense. But in the context of business models for twitch streams, only the second definition works. (even though it originated from the word “metagame”, where “meta” wasn’t an acronym)

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          Mm, I think the first also works. Because the meta of twitch requires a shift in thinking from “I am doing a thing, that happens to be on the platform twitch” into “how does the platform of twitch work as a platform, and what actions can I take to manipulate the platform to do what I want it to do.”

          Shifts of not only content you like to make -> content that gets max views, but also making content when its convenient -> make content during specific peak hours, etc.

        • mosiacmango
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          222 years ago

          This is also what metadata is. Data about data. Not whats inside a file, but the files name, date it was created, created by whom, accessed when, etc. You can also have metadata about metadata, which itself is just metadata.

          Its data all the way down.

      • snowe
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        92 years ago

        lol and I understood the meta part but have no clue what the viral topless part means.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          There are many top streams that are just women with just the nipples covered writing donors names on their body

          • snowe
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            32 years ago

            oh haha. well that does sound viral, but how was that not banned? don’t people get their streams removed for stuff like that? I gotta be honest, I hate twitch lol so I have no idea about any of it.

  • dindonmasker
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    272 years ago

    I’m just happy they will now allow some games that weren’t allowed for sexual themes before.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    WHO GIVES A FUCK??? This is a games sub not an Amazon/twitch policy review sub. Jesus fucking Christ

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    So basically, dress like a prohibition era stripper and call it art? I’m really not comfortable about so many gaming companies not giving a shit about nudity, and I rate it on the same level as them not giving a shit about fostering and creating gambling addictions.

    Steam has been at the forefront of this degradation of divides … Is it really so hard to establish XXX subsidiaries separately for this type of content? I have no problem with services like OnlyFans even though I don’t use them.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      I’m really not comfortable about so many gaming companies not giving a shit about nudity

      American spotted

      • @[email protected]
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        Not really, just someone who reads the news in Europe and reads the headlines about revenge porn, ai fakes in school, and hormonal headbutting, pissing of teachers, and disrespect of the education system and caretakers only there to benefit them at even younger, more immature ages with far more disdain. If you want to go pedo on children, it’s on you, but it’s not hard to establish a distinction for adult only stores beyond a really useless age check and just enjoying it yourself without exposing children to it. Why are you so interested in rushing children into (false notions of) sexual (in)maturity (as is often the case when rushed) when that’s something that takes time for a reason?

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            That should be up to the parents, not you, and they shouldn’t have to wonder if a platform composed mainly of children has now decided to host adult content and their own specific forms of child controls. Clicking on another link for adult content is not that hard.

            Literally having to argue why streamers drawing porn for money and exposure to sexuality becoming a circlejerk to personality cults is bad, incredible…

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              That should be up to the parents

              That ship sailed 30 years ago with the invention of the Internet, but anyways parents are perfectly capable of blocking twitch or supervising their children’s media consumption. The rest of the adult world should not have to cater to entitled and incompetent puritanical parents

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                It shouldn’t have to cater to “adults” who find it too hard to just type another link or go under a different brand when they want to wank off.

    • bruhbeans
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      102 years ago

      Do you rate it on the same level as showing games where people are shot, stabbed, torn apart? Cuz that’s a much larger part of their content base.

      • @[email protected]
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        If it was a game that encouraged going Columbine shooter, no, I’d rate it even worse. But because they are fictional universes, either they just involve the unequivocal bad guys or they are on an arc that has the undertone of exploring the morality of war, the shooting, stabbing, and tearing apart I can dismiss, because while there is a danger to desensitizing the reaction of the visuals of said violence, it does not desensitize the moral qualms people should have about committing those acts.

        Sex is to sell sex, and should be kept in adult only stores just like it is in real life. There’s no problem with those sex stores existing, there is a problem in dismissing that underage exposure to porn and hardcore porn to the point where using ai fakes in school is becoming a problem.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s much easier to supervise if you don’t have to limit individually by each site’s implementation of child control mechanics and can make some gross assumptions about worst case exposure and how bad it can get if they accidentally click the wrong link due to momentary inattentiveness. The adult version is all the work that the admins and moderators due to keep lemmy free from gore/sexually explicit/even worse bullshit spam in NSFW, why suddenly ignore it for some categories of porn, and potentially directed at children no less?

            We can end this discussion and just accept that Twitch should begin to identify itself as an adult only streaming platform, if you want. I don’t know if that’s fair to streamers who struggle to make family friend NSFW content, but the access to porn they can already find on services that explicitly identify themselves as adult only seems to be important enough for people.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              We can end this discussion and just accept that Twitch should begin to identify itself as an adult only streaming platform,

              Then end it. It’s been clear that twitch isn’t appropriate for unsupervised children from the jump.

              • @[email protected]
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                12 years ago

                Then we are in agreement. Unfortunately, raising its 13+ year old requirement to adult only is really only up to Twitch.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  Children don’t listen to age requirements on sites anyway. It’s up to parents to monitor what they’re doing online.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      I rate it on the same level as them not giving a shit about fostering and creating gambling addictions.

      Why.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      There’s also Internet allow only firewalls specially designed for parents who want to implement some control, which isn’t enough when content on platforms decide to saturate their content with that you don’t want to expose your children to. Then, it just becomes an exponential game of having to keep up and adjust each platform’s individual controls when they could have simply kept their adult content elsewhere and have it be easily accessible to any adult who wants to see it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          That’s a good point, but for any media. The problem is identifying something a child can watch and letting them watch it and because of a spur of the moment oversight find them watching something they shouldn’t be because they are not mature enough yet, and the same but having it devolve to extremes. It’s just not that difficult to set up a different domain/service name for it and making it easier for parents.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            No, my point is specifically for twitch and other streaming platforms.

            If you let your kid on twitch, and you arent locking them in to a pre vetted list of known safe channels, youre letting them expose themselves to far far worse shit than porn.

            In the same way that if you let your kid watch netflix or HBO, you dont open the streaming app, hand them the remote, and walk off. You pick the channels or movies they can choose from.

            Other media is typically pre crunched into known safety levels. Twitch is a way to watch things, not a thing you watch.

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              I consider the risk on those platforms much less, and if they begun hosting hardcore porn I would consider only other platforms. Netflix and HBO implement parental controls and involve fixed runtime content, whereas Twitch involves real-time streams and widely differing types of moderation where streamers may be involved in safe and non-safe content, and it lacks the ease of the parental controls of the services you’ve mentioned.

              Why do you consider forcing all that micromanagement to parents easier than just moving porn to another domain or under another brand?

              • @[email protected]
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                52 years ago

                You mean, besides the fact that your kids are your responsibility, and not everyone elses?

                Or beyond the fact that netflix has the same level of softcore content, and HBO has far far far worse sexual and non sexual content?

                Do I need more reasons beyond those?

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        12 years ago

        Pretty sure twitch is supposed to only be for all 16 plus anyway right I’m sure that’s somewhere in their terms of service that you can’t have an account of your underage.

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      I think a large part of it is the parasocial aspect. People get to know streamers (or at least, the streamer’s persona) and form attachments to them over time. The same way someone wants to see how their favorite character’s arc plays out in a show, people want to watch streamers because they feel a personal connection to them.

      Even though that connection is almost certainly one-sided, (except maybe for smaller streamers who actually interact with all of their viewers on a regular basis,) it doesn’t stop the viewers from forming those emotional connections. And that somehow makes them more “real” than some random piece of ass on pornhub.

      I think a lot of it stems from loneliness, and wanting a personal connection. Pornhub is great for porn, but it’s undeniably commercialized porn. Lots of people will likely end up viewing nude twitch streams the same way they’d view nudes from a significant other. Even if the quality isn’t as good as pornhub, it may be considered more desirable simply because the viewers feel like they know the person.

    • twelve20two
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      Five years from now, Amazon launches its first premium-only porn site (and then five years more down the road, it will absorb and replace Twitch)

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      That is what has always boggled my mind about all this softcore stuff, like why are you on twitch with your dick out anyway? If you want to jerk off why not just do it properly lol

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        People listen to music without dancing, it’s the same thing - it activates pleasurable parts of your brain which trigger various biochemical responces. I normally work with video essays on in the background but when things get complex and stressful I switch to hot people dancing or similar, trying to juggle a dozen variables and get all the code loops right can be mentally taxing so when my brain in churning over my options it can be good to have a nice juicy butt to rest my eyes on, watch sway and pop and grind… It’s not going to interrupt my train of thought but it holds it.

        Also something that no one seems to consider possible but there are some really interesting and funny women that enjoy showing off their body, the music is often great and the atmosphere fun and light hearted - the notion that because it’s sexy it can only be low tier, base and worthless is just puritan nonsense, it’s good content.

        And no you don’t have to jerk off the second you see a sexy butt, I think that way of thinking might be more puritan baggage. You can just feel good about seeing sexy bodies gyrate.

  • Hal-5700X
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    Just become a soft-core porn site at this point, Twitch.

    🤔 In away they did that already with the new rules.

  • @[email protected]
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    952 years ago

    The only thing that really bothers me is that the porn get shoved on the front page.

    I wanna open Twitch on my living room TV to watch SC2 and tiveux something is painting her tits on my screen already.

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      From what I understand, this change will disallow any stream with these tags showing up on the front page. Though, I believe this will still be at the top of the “just chatting” category, so really it’s the same problem.

      • @[email protected]
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        Just stop watching shit using twitch streams like a 10yo because it’s trash software and always has been.

        FTFY

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          It’s a great platform, the world let’s you watch whatever trash you love so let other people enjoy what they love

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          It works fine for me, but I mostly watch one streamer who only streams on Twitch. My ad blocker blocks their stupid ads on stuff I periodically check out that I’m not subbed to (e.g. MP events hosted by someone else), so it’s generally a good experience.

          However, the front page is absolute cancer, and it’s why I don’t watch many other streams. I just want my steamer and related content, and a few random favorited streamers from other games I very occasionally watch. I feel a little bad about the ad blocker, but that’s because there’s no in-between AFAIK where I can sub to 1-2 channels and still get no ads on the very rare occasions I’ll watch something else (less than once/month).

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                I have ublock, out of the box it does not impact twitch ads in any way.

                Do you have special add ons or filters?

                • @[email protected]
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                  I think just EasyList, not sure, it has been a long time since I set it up. Here’s my config though:

                  My uBlock config

                  My custom rules are pretty barebones, but here’s that as well (I’m pretty sure neither is related to Twitch):

                  Let me know if there’s a better way for me to help.

          • @[email protected]
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            I do this with 1 streamer, too. I sub with prime though.

            Ive seen the odd stream of a related streamer but normally just catch vods on youtube for anyone related.

            Who is your one streamer out of interest?

            Mines paymoneywubby.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ayyy. I very occasionally watch the live stream I usually just catch him on paymoneywubby stream archive on YouTube.

            • @[email protected]
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              FlorryWorry.

              He mostly plays Europa Universalis IV and is incredibly creative and entertaining with his runs. He is also the reigning champ for the Paradox tournaments (undefeated), yet he is still very humble about it. I’m in the US, so I mostly watch his VODs, but I’ll occasionally join live if he’s doing a charity event or something.

              I’ll occasionally watch BudgetMonk (another EU4 streamer), or watch some MtG or Eternal (haven’t watched either for a couple years). But 99% of the it’s FlorryWorry or a live event w/ him on another channel (Paradox tournaments are on YouTube, so it’s infrequent).

      • Rose56
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        Stop watch porn like 10yo and go find a wife!

        • Encrypt-Keeper
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          72 years ago

          Yeah just tie down a poor girl and entangle your finances and entire futures just so you can get off, what can go wrong

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          What is there to comprehend? Linkerbaan said they want to watch Twitch but without feeling awkward seeing a bunch of titty girls on their living room TV. Dkarma’s solution is to advise them to stop watching Twitch. It’s not my advice, but the A to B logic is sound.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 years ago

            “shit twitch streams” means they think there are good streams.

            The advice isnt abandon twitch. They think the only way boobi streams are on the home page is if the algorithm thinks you watch them.

            Which isnt how it works, as streams tagged as boobi wont appear unsearched on the front page according to twitch, algorithm or no algorithm.

  • at_an_angle
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    Huh. This doesn’t affect me in the slightest. Even if I used the site, it wouldn’t.

    6 to worry about something more important, like organizing my sock drawer.

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    People in this thread really pretending they have kids in order to get upset about implied nudity. It does not get more american does it? Some chick showing lots of boobie sure seems to be the same like a girl getting banged by big dick to many here.

    Also if you actually think that some nudity will wreck your kid but watching gta does not i am not sure why anyone bothers arguing with you.

    • @[email protected]
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      Are you implying those streams are not gonna be overrun with incels sending hundreds of dollars in donations to get sent some nail clippings?

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s hilarious to me seeing comments like this because in your head there’s no room for doubt, you know exactly what these streams will be like and can firmly declare that in public - it doesn’t even come into you mind at all to consider they’re popular things which mean a lot of people will have done something you haven’t and actually watched them.

    • El Barto
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      I know of families who walk naked around the house. No kids under 10 were harmed by this. Nudity is natural. Reacting to it in an unhealthy manner is not.

      • @[email protected]
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        Nudity is not strictly porn, but not all nudity is strictly harmless. Platforms like these are for clickbait and attention whoring, and there’s no better way to get attention on the internet than sexual content (especially on a website mainly used by kids/teens).

        And it’s basically universally accepted that porn is harmful to children. We all watched some of it when we were young, but most people had circumstances that limited their exposure or access to it. A modern mainstream addiction machine like Twitch serving softcore porn to children under the guise of “artistic nudity” is going to fuck people up. That’s not even mentioning the “cam whore” aspect to it, which does frequently fuck up the lives of fully grown adults.

        What sites are parents supposed to allow their kids to access if rules like this start slipping in? Short of invasive AI scanning, it’s not possible to monitor every single thing your child watches on a site at all times.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          I would like to learn more on a sentence you casually dropped

          it’s basically universally accepted that porn is harmful to children

          It would be interesting to read some studies and what is the definition of “children”.

          In other word I think that assertion is undebatable for a 6 year old… but what about a 14yo? And a 17yo?

        • @[email protected]
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          182 years ago

          What universe do you live in where thats accepted knowledge? Cause its not the real one, thats a pretty frequently debated topic.

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                Peas to apples, that study only involves adolescents, and it doesn’t clearly illustrate or partition according to the age groups. It also seems to merely itself to the self-assessment of those polled and particular concerns about body image and inadequacy.

              • @[email protected]
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                From your own link:

                However, pornography use was associated with increases in both self-esteem and symptoms of depression and anxiety, albeit only among adolescent women in one of the two panels. In addition, low subjective well-being was associated with a subsequent increase in pornography use, but only in female adolescents in one panel. This study’s results are not consistent with concerns about pornography use negatively contributing to male adolescents’ psychological well-being, but suggest potential antagonistic links between pornography use and specific facets of mental well-being in adolescent women. Such links should be considered tentative until verified with further research.

                Seems that your own study you posted acknowledges that porn with adolescents, mainly with adolescent males, is generally accepted and understood with their negative links.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Yes, I tried to link a reasonably balanced view of the issue. It’d be nice if you didn’t cherry pick statements. The point being, different studies have shown different results, and there’s no concrete conclusion to date. Hence your statement about ‘universal acceptance’ is extremely debatable.

                • @[email protected]
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                  122 years ago

                  The last sentence of your quote literally says that there is no actual conclusive data from this, and any links need further study to be considered real and actionable.

                  You didnt even cherry pick this correctly

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

          Every single time, anything and everything…

          You must realise no one buys it, right? Like you know everyone sees straight through your pearl clutching?

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          I am always so interested by these types of comments. Lots of words, no substance. HOW will this cause harm? Is it the nudity? Is it the platform specifically? Is Twitch now more harmfully addicting due to there now being nudity? Was access to Twitch not harmful, or was harmful, before? In excess? In moderation?

          Give us something if you’re going to be throwing verbal hands. I neither agree nor disagree with this decision by Twitch, mostly because I honestly dgaf and strongly feel parents have a responsibility to learn how to limit access if it is needed. Having worked with parents a LOT, many of them are happy to shove responsibility for their children onto others, while simultaneously making outrageous demands and incredible accusations. I don’t see why this situation should be any different.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 years ago

            Yeah that poster comes off as brainwashed by the puritanical side of the usa. There’s nothing inherently damaging about seeing a naked body.

            • @[email protected]
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              Wow it’s almost like you didn’t read the comment at all they literally said in the first sentence not all nudity is porn lmao.

              As far as damages from PORNOGRAPHY, which is what they said, yeah. It can be pretty damaging.

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                Well, I have a headache now. I had forgotten how poorly written some of these published papers tend to be. Anyway, sorta long summary after skimming a few of the studies and that meta-analysis:

                1. The meta-analysis worked through data obtained in a range from 1967 to 1995. It found that the consumption of “explicit pornographic material” appears to create a mostly consistent change in the behavior of adolescents and measured in four categories. I’m on mobile so I won’t go back and grab those categories, though the participants are mostly balanced between them. It should be noted that this analysis is trying to push a hard need for practical findings in our modern day despite only taking information from the range provided. Moreover, there is an air of bias regarding the findings.

                2. Other studies have concluded, in general, that while we believe there is an increased risk of early sexual development and even deviance, it has been difficult to replicate these consistently.

                3. Most studies conclude that modern consumption of media by teenagers may or may not increase the risk of deviancy many of us would consider stereotypical risks that teenagers take.

                Basically, science is struggling a bit to show a positive correlation. They think there might be something there, though looking at research into other types of media you’ll find similar findings.

                • archomrade [he/him]
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                  Not to mention that the metric of ‘sexual deviance’ is ill-defined and multi-variate. If sexual deviance is of a sexual health and safety orientation, then the obvious confounding factor is the historical use of abstinence-only education in this cohort (from 67-95). If the definition is speaking towards sexual violence and improper consent, then I think the conversation should include how healthy and consenting behaviors are being properly depicted outside of pornography as well as within, because simply not ever being exposed to sexual depictions doesn’t address the origins of anti-social attitudes toward the opposite gender and sexual frustrations of involuntarily celibate men. Domestic violence exists even outside a sexual context.

                  Not addressing those issues is how you end up with senile men like Dennis Prager who believe rape is morally permissible inside a heterosexual marriage.

              • archomrade [he/him]
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                I’m struggling to understand how the claim ‘pornography causes sexual deviance’ is different from ‘violent films and video games cause violent tendencies’

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            i think the problem a lot of people (myself included) have specifically with nudity on twitch is with the streamers whose streams are basically just porn. now there’s nothing inherently wrong with porn, nudity, or sex work on the internet or in real life, but the issue comes in when you put people who are essentially sex workers on the same video game streaming site many young people visit for non-sexual content. now porn is available and popular on their favorite game streaming site, and it is being forcibly recommended to users who have never browsed that category of content on twitch before.

            pretty much all i watch on twitch is super mario 64 speedruns, but 9/10 times when i log in my first recommended channel is a streamer with their tits out doing jumping jacks in a hot tub or something. i can only imagine this is happening to a large percentage of other users as well, including younger users who could be easily manipulated by an attractive and interactive woman online heavily incentivizing them to donate money.

            it basically boils down to: i don’t care that porn is on the site, but it should not be recommended to people who are not already browsing that content as that is not what i’m there to see.

            edit - re-reading the changes, i’m hoping that the stream visibility and content label changes would fix this issue.

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              Thanks for the measured response! I can agree with this. There is inherently nothing wrong with nudity or sex in general. In fact a healthy relationship with nudity and sex likely supports good development. I don’t need to go much further to support this argument than to point out the myriads of people damaged from strict religious upbringings. That said, it does need to be filtered and enforced properly. Buried even where it had to be actually found, or specific settings activated that are otherwise automatically turned off.

              I think if these and/or similar steps were done many of us wouldn’t be bothered.

              • @[email protected]
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                Unfiltered visibility of things is usually my problem and concern for my kids on video platforms.

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s why I don’t monitor it. If I don’t trust my kids on a site, I ban it so they get no access to it whatsoever. If I trust them, I don’t have any restrictions on the content they can access on it.

          For example, I trust Netflix’s kids mode, but my kids can easily switch to my profile and see stuff they shouldn’t. I trust them to only watch on their profile, and if they violate that, they lose access to Netflix entirely. Adult content doesn’t appear on their home page, and it doesn’t even appear on my home page (as in, the trailers usually don’t have the intense parts).

          I feel like if I restrict it, they’ll be more curious about what they’re missing, whereas teaching them to avoid stuff in their own teaches discipline and builds trust

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      You might as well tell people they are not good parents if they allow their children the moral ambiguity of playing cowboys and indians and watching pirate of the Caribbeans with that sort of level of logic. Sometimes the biggest caricatures are those accusing other people of being it. Sorry for offending your sensibilities for thinking there should be enough distinction as to keep children away from prostitution. Is clicking on a different url for the same thing really that hard for you?

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        If you think this is protistution your comment sure might make sense. Have fun.

          • Lowlee Kun
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            12 years ago

            Not sure why you bring that topic. People injecting this topic everywere unbidden are a little bit concerning to me and should do some soul searching.

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              You, meanwhile, will be forever completely immune to it, it seems. Thank fucking christ there were people with fucking brains and who are actually virtuous instead of just virtue signalling to get the decision pulled back.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s funny to be when the moral compass types let their misogyny show so clearly. Like you’re not going to even try to hide that while trying to claim the moral high ground?

        Yes there are bad sexy streamers there are also good sexy streamers, but you can’t even imagine that a sexy girl could also be intelligent, funny, and entertaining. Compared to the dudebro react streamers and souless gameplay streams you normally have to wade through they’re a much higher class of entertainment, at least they’re making their own content and showing some personality.

    • @[email protected]
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      242 years ago

      It’s just 4 comments in here that are complaining. It’s not a lot. I think you’re overreacting

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        A limply worded comment is overreacting? Id hate to see you act

        E: its funny I got downvoted now that half the thread is about exactly this, leaving the weakly worded comment completely accurate

  • Uglyhead
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    Amazon doing their own OnlyFans for minors. Who woulda thunk it.

    • @[email protected]
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      I remember being a minor before twitch. Watching porn on the internet wasn’t the task you’d think it was without twitch.

    • Hal-5700X
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      Will some streamers link their OnlyFans on Twitch with the help of third party apps, like Linktree. So they’re half way there.

      • Uglyhead
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        112 years ago

        This way Amazon doesn’t lose the user to OF or anywhere else clicking off to another site.

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        32 years ago

        I’m fine with that, provided they lock it behind a separate paid tier payable only via credit card. That’s the best age gate imo because you have to be 18+ to get a credit card and parents should be tracking their statements anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 years ago

    A quarter of the way into the 21st century and we’re still not sure if a website can be profitable if there’s boobs.

    This timeline is dumb as hell.

    • Throwaway
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      Nah, they are. Problem is banks. Bunch of weird prudes, and they effectively run the world.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      People looking for that tend to be the ones most likely to throw money at strangers. Oldest profession continues to be the most predictable among its clientele.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Add this with AI being used to generate nude photos from images of people and they’re just setting themselves up for a ton of legal ramifications not to mention serious ethical ones.