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What's the Dharma and the Access to Pornography?
There was a time, maybe most of human history, where people in general had no access to varieties of indulgences. Today we're constantly solicited for our evaluation of content and we're not stressfully constrained by violently enforced social norms. So it struck me that we can't simply write off indulgence as an abnormality the way people might have done in the past. It's also potentially like a survival tool for the species, right? If we were just given kind of in the stimuli, we would just kind of sit in a room and die and not eat.