Viral anti-masturbation app Quittr exposed sensitive user data
mashable.com
Masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users were apparently leaked.

Now, 404 Media reports that Quittr leaked data about hundreds of thousands of users’ masturbation habits as well as lied about its security issues.

  • wuffah@lemmy.world
    English
    51·
    11 hours ago

    “Porn addiction,” like “sex addiction,” isn’t recognized by the DSM-5, which classifies mental disorders. While porn-viewing can be compulsive, like other behaviors, research suggests that perceived porn addiction predicted distress over actual porn use itself. Yet, the idea of “porn addiction” persists in the U.S., which lacks comprehensive sex education requirements in many states; only 37 percent of states require sex education to be medically accurate, according to Boston University.

    What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled, then monetized in the US, and the harm it causes.

    Get ready for age verification data breaches like this, except on a worldwide scale.

    • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled

      You reminded me of a post I saw in r/catholicism. OP wanted to stop masturbating, but wasn’t able to overcome the urge and felt very bad about it, knowing it was wrong, and was asking advice. All the comments were in the line of “Just trust and submit to Jesus and he’ll help you”.

      WTF… I felt bad for OP and other people in a situation like that.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      101·
      10 hours ago

      A lot of things take decades to make it into the DSM even after identified and labeled by professionals, and a lot of things take decades to be removed after professionals say it’s not a pathology.

      • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah. The DSM isn’t the final word here. Obviously any superstimulus will have extreme addictive potential. There’s no reason why pornography would be any different than, say, junk food in this regard.

        • wuffah@lemmy.world
          English
          2·
          10 hours ago

          These are great points and are important to consider for mental and sexual health. I also think that the risks accompanying age verification’s mass surveillance and capitalism’s exploitation of America’s institutional sexual repression have a far greater and more harmful impact than porn and masturbation.

          Of course, it’s not a bad thing that there is support for people in the form of this app, but I fear that legal policy is expanding to suppress sexuality without consent. For example, data from period tracking apps has already been used to persecute women who seek abortions. If the extreme religious right in America gets their way, could data from anti-masturbation apps or age verification services be used to help prove you accessed “illegal” pornography?

          It sounds insane, because it is, but I believe this is where we’re headed in a fascist, sexually repressive America. :/

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            3·
            9 hours ago

            That’s who we’ve always been. The boomers and silent generation had a glimmer but we’re given treats that required toeing the line, treats they guaranteed their children and grandchildren would never see, perhaps in ignorance/myopia, many of sheer selfishness and malicious intent.