Pornografia estrema “radicalizzante” giovani e normalizzare la violenza, afferma il commissario del Garda
https://www.thejournal.ie/extreme-online-pornography-is-radicalising-young-men-and-normalising-violence-says-garda-commissioner-6779947-Aug2025/
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Oh this gobshite is a Helen Lovejoy, great, maybe the normalizing of violence is because there is zero consequences for them, an ineffectual/corrupt/lazy police force and a justice system of suspended sentences for sexual predators and abusers.
Every government is salivating with jealousy over the power grab the UK just did.
The old porn excuse to roll out full internet control.
Porn is pretty much every young persons first introduction to sex nowadays. It’s not uncommon for young people to have watched all kinds of extremely questionable pornographic content before ever having an actual sexual experience with another person. It is something that deserves actual serious discussions, not just dismissals of anyone bringing it up as being “Helen Lovejoy’s”.
Edit: Curious about the amount of downvotes on this. Is saying that the influence porn has on young people is something worth discussing *really* such a controversial view?
Not devil music, videogames or Japanese poké monsters!?
What will we blame next? Certainly not the lack of convictions for violent or violent sexual crimes.
We need to have more and more explicit depictions of sex in fiction and I’m not kidding. Porn should not have a monopoly on culture’s engagement with sex.
I agree with the headline completely, but I’m not sure a ban like in the UK is the correct approach. Could this just be dealt with in sex-ed instead? If SPHE is still a thing then that’s the right place to bring that up.
Might not be a popular opinion and to be honest I despise nannystate Government overreach, but maybe it would be to the benefit of society as a whole. Provided of course Governments don’t use it as justification to impose further restrictions and that of course is a big if.
Quite frankly the fact that the vast majority of kids are walking around with devices in their pocket, from God knows how young these days, that grant them access to not only hardcore pornoghrapy, but extreme violence all the way up to literal murder is a huge problem.
Surely that’s having a massive affect on their young brains and is leading to some very psychologically unwell people as they come of age. I accept the argument that parents should shoulder some responsibility and I’m sure most good parents do, but assuming the world is full of good parents would be incredibly naive. You might restrictic your child’s access, but his friend down the roads parents might not and despite your best efforts your child is exposed to it too.
You’re not wrong that he’s probably angling this as another power move to align with the UK but also what he’s saying IS fundamentally correct, even if he’s saying it for the first wrong reasons, and you’re burying your head in the sand if you think the issue is made up.
Mainstream porn is filled with misogyny and normalized violence against women. Simultaneously it’s also most very young men’s introduction to sex because sexual education here is shite.
Bury your head in the sand all you want and talk about Helen Lovejoy but it just goes to show how out of touch you are.
Laying the ground work on constructing the narrative about child safety to falsely justify Draconian Internet controls.
I can see this working out for top civil servants and those in the government.
With the measures they are trying to force through the UK normal previously disinterested people who didn’t really give a toss one way or the other about Internet censorship or the shady doings of government are starting to pay more attention to what’s going on.
Lack of proper sex education is radicalising young men and normalising violence maybe.
Fix sex education first before going all nanny state and banning things.
Wow so he admits his evidence is anecdotal and the one study he mentions is from an organization who’s CEO is a hardcore catholic. Bias much?
I think gaurds have a bigger problem to deal with. Lads running up and stabbing them seems a bigger issue.
Lack of education and failure to recognize and treat mental health issues is the real issue here.
I agree with the headline but mandatory Internet ID is NOT the solution
Looks like the perfect excuse to implement the same thing in the UK has ID verification
Bullshit excuse to finally normalise full on control of the internet
An easier solution than making us all have online IDs is to make it so smart phones are illegal for anyone under 16, maybe even 18.
They’ll just have to survive on Nokias like we did until they’re 18. They’ll probably still get access via some smart device in the home, but it would drastically reduce the amount of access they have, and their time on social media which is poison to the young mind.
They’ll blame everything but the shitty algorithm that brings people down rabbit holes and eventual radicalisation
>*“****I do think there is an education piece for this. We have heard a lot over the last few weeks about limiting the access of children to all sorts of violent imagery, I think that’s a good thing****.*
>*“It has to be faced up as well that there is a multibillion industry behind this that we are not going to defeat by attacking it,* ***what we have to do is make sure people are educated and understand what a proper relationship is.****”*
As much as I believe that the Comissioner is genuinely concerned and wants to push better relatonship/sex education options towards yound adults, we only have to look across the water *in either direction* to see how Governments have tried to tackle these problems. They go for the easy ‘slap a ban on it’ approach without consideration of personal freedoms.
The US has had book bans on various sex-adjacent topics including interpersonal relationships and safe sex, meanwhile the UK is wrestling with a piss-poor implemented ‘Online Safety Act’ that essentially censors information including safe-sex topics, and also peers into Briton’s Personal Privacy. We can already see [the ramifications of trusting a company with anyone’s personal data within days of the Act being passed](https://techinformed.com/controversy-brews-for-tea-dating-app/). ‘Fortunately’, it was a US data broker this time, but it wouldn’t be much a stretch to see this happening to brokers who hold the ID’s for UK companies online in future.
In short;
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Dont listen! Dont fall for it. We in the UK are be—- GUNSHOT
Here we go, we’re gonna have to age verify to go online soon.
I always see this and think, could the parents actually parent?
There’s a multitude of apps to help this.
Jesus do the job you signed up for
If you look at r/women there is an alternate take on this as for a lot of them it’s stopping intimacy. I don’t think full internet control is a thing either but I do have two solutions. First as outlined is full education on emotional, sexual and mental boundaries during sex . Equip people with that. Secondly is develop ethical porn. If someone wants to flog their mickey or fanny photos on Only Fans then once it’s of their own doing . Same Applies to sex work. Empower people with their own bodily autonomy and stop trafficking. BTW A lot of the regulation of Anything sex related is lobbied by Ruhama who are the Good Shepherd Sister’s who ran the Magdalene Laundries.,..
Dan Savage once said something like: “everyone needs to know that pornography is to sex like Die Hard is to police work.”
And, honestly, though that’s obvious and seemingly simple, I don’t think enough young lads know that.
Like any other topic though, it needs to be said.
At least before we go down the path of banning VPNs and any other giant authoritarian wishlist in the name of solving a problem that may have a simpler solution. And this is to say I’m not denying there’s a problem, but let’s be honest: a lot of it comes down to not talking about sex in this culture.
The owners of a couple of the biggest sites on the internet are pushing these kinks and normalising it for young people.
Incest and choking, CNC stuff etc, should not be on the front page of every porn site front page.
He is probably right but this kust sounds like a build up to the introduction of Internet censorship laws like the UK have just done. The world is entering a very dangerous new era..