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Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data
(mashable.com)
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Holy fuck TIL there is an anti-masturbation app.
Wtf
The US speaker of the house Mike Johnson has mentioned many times how he and his son monitor each other’s masturbation habits through an app
Are the app’s servers hosted on Epstein island? A father and son sharing chicken choking habits just sounds creepy.
It's quite creepy and I can definitely picture these uptight evangelical Christian type people thinking it's totally normal. So weird.
Many Christians believe it is sinful, because generally they are uptight as hell about anything regarding sexuality.
I think the porn addiction thing is that you train your brain to seek the reward of sexual pleasure through the cheapest means possible: porn. Cheap as in fast, efficient, and often focusing on exactly what you want. Brain learns, “gee, this is a lot easier this way” and suddenly it’s more difficult to feel engaged with the more natural processes for sexy time.
It’s like coffee to me. My day feels a little more straightened out as long as one gets rubbed out early in the morning.
There’s really not a comfortable way to say that, is there?
Holy shit
Maybe that's why he can't keep up with the news? He should turn the notifications off.
Lots of countries have their fascists and their dictators but the American right are just plain weird.
Can you believe the developers of that app are paying real money for ads for it? I get Quittr ads online and Facebook all the time. Someone is paying money to try and convince me to not to wank. I can't imagine a bigger waste of money.
The part that really blows my mind is that someone is paying for this app..
Same but then I found out that most people I know pay close to $500/year in subscriptions alone. Some don't even remember all the subscriptions they have! A guy at my work was saying that money was really tight and he saved a ton just by cancelling his Adobe and Capcut subscriptions. That's on top of at least 3-4 streaming platforms as well.
❌ subscriptions for apps and streaming
✅ the high seas, libre software
I mean in a way I get it. It's easier to just pay subscription services and to have to try and deal with the utterly terrible torrent sites which by the way are no better now than they were 20 years ago.
uBlock Origin (Lite) will make those pesky ads a distant memory.
I'm going to need a t-shirt with that on
it's a slideshow of Republican appointees.
Yeah, what does that even mean? And why would anyone want it?
Because porn addiction is a real thing and some people who suffer from it want help.
As someone who dealt for way too many years with a heroin addiction, I keep reading things like this and wanting to say stuff like 'porn addiction isn't a real addiction.' But TBF I've never had a porn addiction and don't know what it's like, so I can't say that. But there are undeniable differences.
That's a reasonable position that doesn't invalidate the experiences of others [genuine]. There are definitely differences between heroin addiction and porn addiction, but either can be life ruining. Heroin tends to be more dangerous, but that can depend on what kind of porn the person is addicted to, just ask David Carradine.