I feel really REALLY bad for teenagers/young adults

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread, I'm new here so I didn't know where else to put it.

But MAN, I really feel bad for young men and teenagers who are going through this type of addiction. I was born in 88, and I didn't even get a smartphone until I was in my 20's. When I was going through puberty, porn wasn't exactly all that easy to get. You could get it, but you had to know where to get it and a 300 MB video would take DAYS to download, and I won't even get into how slow 56k modems would be.

Nowadays, porn is not only everywhere but it's instantaneous. Half of the discord servers I go into have a NSFW section that's got minimal screening, and on top of that, sex-workers and porn is being championed on social media. I didn't really think about this until recently, but at the same time I can't really talk about how wrong that is without feeling like a hypocrite.

I'm just glad there are movements like this around that can provide support to everyone going through this, especially for the younger ones. I'm sorry this is the world they have to grow up in.

EDIT: On top of that, I also feel REALLY bad for young women who not only have masturbation addiction, but also see that all this social condoning of sex-workers and starring as a pornstar or cam-girl looks like a valid profession.

 

I hear ya. I remember being in sixth grade and some speaker came to our class to tell us about the 'dangers of getting high sniffing felt pens'. We were all like "wait....you can do that?!"
With young children today I am truly terrified about how they're going to turn out decades later. There's a girl in the family that is kind of hooked on roblox and uses her older sister's tablet to watch youtube videos on it, and apparently a few weeks ago the older sister was looking through her youtube history and found some pretty disturbing stuff on the youtube kids section featuring roblox. If you don't know what I mean, google 'elsagate'. It's pretty sinister, kinda makes me start thinking like a doomer.
If/when I have children I'm going to do my damnedest to make sure they're not using an internet device without an eyeball on it until I can no longer have control over it. Though even then there's only so much I can do, can't just keep them shut off from the world because that could just backfire. I guess the only thing that can be done is to just be as much of a positive influence as possible.