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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 123 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine being an adult raised without all-you-can-stomach porn and suddenly getting access to the Internet.

SO. MANY. BLISTERS.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Had 15 year old pre-internet me been suddenly handed even the internet of say 1996 with its far smaller quantity of available porn, but with no gradual transition between my near-pornless world and that, I may very well have found a way to masturbate myself to death before I ever made it out of puberty.

[–] BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world 69 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

" I can't fire my rifle! My hand is cramped up!"

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm leaving, hot babes 3 km to the north!

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

You hear that, boys? Move, move, move!

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 8 points 16 hours ago

This is my rifle. This is my gun. This is for shooting. This is for fun.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I'm shooting blanks!

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Fapping to save lives

[–] sanae@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

ddfed seeded eucalyptus ee

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Those of us who grew up before the internet have experienced that.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 22 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We had a couple decades of slow acclimatization: crappy black and white scans, weird CGA scans, glorious 16 colors, all of which had to be painstakingly downloaded at 2400 baud or less, then finally lifelike 256 color images. And then tiny gifs or videos that would take all night. In the semi modern era, there was crappy filesharing where you could type search strings in and hope for the best (and enough seeds).

But these poor bastards are going from zero straight to pornhub.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Glorious leader was right, the west is depraved! Still not putting phone down though."

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 13 hours ago

Wait until they find the Japanese sites.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's a lot different growing up as the internet did vs discovering it in 1 day

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, y'all got that pornography sent to you 3 pixels at a time, that hardly counts as 'all you can stomach porn'. Waiting between each line of your image is barely equivalent to today's hard hitting porn problems such as videos buffering (though it's an amusing comparison now that I think about it).

A better comparison would be long term coma patients or people who've been in prison since the 90s.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Believe it or not, many of us grew up before you could even download porn slowly. The internet literally didn't exist. Then it existed but was slow and empty. Then it grew, and here we are now.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

We found porn stashed in hedges and sheds, hidden in the woods, on playing cards, in the bottom of wardrobes. It was something you found rather than something you sought out.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's true. Everyone who grew up in the early 90s or before has at least one story about finding porn in the woods, including myself.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

No you either took it home with you and brought it back later or you saved it in your memory for future use.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

So many hours spent wargaming how to buy porn from cornerstores.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I remember when the internet first started, we were being told about it in school by some expert or something, I don't know who they were. They were telling us that soon there may be 1,000 websites.

I guess they were right.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

LOL, that's like the understatement of the century.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My first experience with internet porn was after trying to download Fight Club from a peer-to-peer filesharing app and ending up with something unexpected that was merely named 'Fight Club'.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

That was well into the internet's growth period. My first experience with it was a file saved on a 5.25" floppy disc. Then a friend showed me how he got it, and it was like that other person said. The picture loaded one line at a time and took like 5 minutes to download. We were amazed! It was amazing technology for the time.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

And here you are, also not invading Ukraine.