Pornography restrictions being codified into law, adult art being restricted from most Lemmy instances, Tarot readers blotting out the nudity on their cards on Reddit.

I’m watching the Magicians, on Amazon, and I use subtitles. All the curse words are purposefully filled in with random letters, so as not to offend the reader.

What’s up with all the prudishness? Can people knock it off, please?

People have vaginas. And titties. And dicks. And asses. They swear. They drink. They fuck. Why is this generation afraid of that? Acknowledging these things isn’t going to increase your chances of being sexually violated. So, what’s the deal?

  • rf_@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It’s driven by advertising money. YouTube people self-censor their speech out of fear of being demonetized.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s not even that. People get reported for posting porn if it’s The Birth of Venus or David, whether YT, Mta, R**it, and the far right parent groups’ members that are having books pulled off library shelves.

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        13 hours ago

        Heads up: Your self-censoring instead did some unintended formatting (everything between two asterisks/stars formats to italics, between two double-asteriks it formats to bold)