Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media
Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media
“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” on tribe leader said of the kinky sex acts they’ve suddenly been exposed to on screen.
A reclusive tribe in the Amazon finally got hooked up to the internet, thanks to Elon Musk — only to be torn apart by social media and pornography addiction, elders complain.
Brazil’s 2,000-member Marubo tribe has been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Tesla founder’s Starlink service nine months ago, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Ituí River to the web for the first time.
“When it arrived, everyone was happy,” Tsainama Marubo, 73, told The New York Times.
“But now, things have gotten worse. Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet, they’re learning the ways of the white people.”
The Marubo are a chaste tribe, who even frown upon kissing in public — but Alfredo Marubo (all Marubo use the same last name) said he is anxious that the arrival of the service, which delivers super-fast internet to far-flung corners of the planet and has been billed as a game-changer by Musk, could upend standards of decorum.
Alfredo said many young Marubo men have been sharing porn videos in group chats and he has already observed more “aggressive sexual behavior” in some of them.
“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” he said of the kinky sex acts they’ve suddenly been exposed to on screen.
Relatable.
It's curtains once they find e621. Might as well break out the programming socks and IT jobs now, lol
Eh, we're all human.
The Andamanese would probably be feeling pretty pleased with the isolation, if only they knew. Perhaps there is some technology that could assist in this...
And now all the 30 year old guys are gonna have dick problems. Jesus Christ.
Elon Musk: my work here is done.
Surprisingly not the onion.
Did their women get diagnosed with hysteria too?
First of all, "porn addiction" is not a thing. Clickbait news organizations use it to drive traffic. Religious zealous use the term to demonize those who differ from their own worldview. Licensed medical professionals do not use it.
The quotes in the article are from a 73 year old man complaining that the youth these days are weird, immoral, and lazy. Old people have been documented saying that for hundreds, thousands of years.
Porn addiction is a very real thing that people suffer from.
It has been continuously been reviewed and rejected by the APA due to lack of scientific evidence supporting it's existence.
There are people out there with compulsive disorders that can be associated with any activity, including consuming pornography. I will not deny that there are people suffering from such conditions that should be helped. There is no evidence that pornography is itself addictive.
This case is just an old man yelling at a cloud. It's just like the satanic panic of the 1980's. It's just like the false (and somewhat racist) claims against MSG. It's propaganda masquerading as science. It's morality masquerading as medicine.
Whether something is "a thing" depends on what "a thing" is.
If you're saying it isn't a mental disorder, you're correct, depending on the diagnostic manual, like the DSM-5.
However, any addiction can be a clinically significant mental illness if it is impacting a persons ability to function.
If someone is habitually neglecting their health, finances, or social bonds (especially relationships), then porn addiction is definitely "a thing" (mental illness).
Do you not see any problem with allowing the media to make up mental illnesses? What's next, protesting? Voting for another party? Refusing to worship the right god, the right way?
If someone is habitually neglecting their health that's already a recognized mental disorder. Ascribing that to the subject of their fixation when there is no evidence that the subject caused that is, at best, irresponsible, and at worst pushing a religious or political agenda.