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nah, pornography is inherently bad and harmful, I know you think your logic has no flaws but (and let's keep in mind that you are doing this rant for the solely purpose of justifying sexual books) it's the same logic paedophiles use when justifying fictional loli anime or similar stuff, and I mean the SAME "a book does not have real people" "a teenager is still using their imagination". I haven't spent my teenage years hating on anime watchers to not recognize their stupid logic when I see it.

I’m gonna keep going on the porn v real sex post btw cause I think it very neatly ties into what’s happening with book bans.

Parents of children know their kids are being exposed to sex at exceptionally young ages.

But parents of children also don’t or cannot admit that the way their kids are mainly being exposed is through items in the home: iPhones and iPads, streaming services, even quite explicit music on the radio or Spotify.

No parent wants to have to change something fundamental about their home has been running for years, like replacing smartphones with flip phones or putting time limits on non-homework computer use.

So they turn to the schools and the public libraries as places where teenagers are getting “porn” by banning books like A Court of Thorn and Roses.

But here’s the thing - a book does not have real people being really degraded. A teenager reading a “spicy” novel is still using their imagination even while consuming a book with sex in it. No one was harmed in the making of that book. And unless that teenager is literally finding fairies or whatever to have sex with (lmao), then reading that book at 15 is probably not going to have the same effect on the brain that we’ve been seeing happen to young brains and violent porn consumption.

And I wish it were appropriate to somehow bring this up at a book banning administration meeting without sounding like a crazy person.

Your daughter probably isn’t gonna be ruined by reading Philip Gregory romance novels from the public library. But there’s a very real chance your son might start choking out his first girlfriend during sex from watching violent porn on the smartphone you bought him.

This cluster of stars shines like falling snow caught in the moonlight. This cluster, which is only about 500,000 years old, resides 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, and contains some of the largest and brightest stars seen in the entire Milky Way galaxy. 

Since the rate of star formation in galaxies like these is so rapid, they will eventually erode all the surrounding gas. These large stars burn their fuel so ferociously that they will explode as supernovas in just a few million years. 

Their explosions will release material that, when combined with nearby gas and dust, will start a brand-new generation of stars. 

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Maíz Apellániz (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, Spain); N. Smith (University of Arizona).

Mare Tranquillitatis, the “Sea of Tranquility” // Niall MacNeill

At the bottom of the image is the landing site of Apollo 11!

superman & batman: generations #1

[ID: Bruce Wayne clasping Clark Kent's hand in a gesture of comfort. Bruce is wearing a black suit and has his other hand on Clark's shoulder. Clark is wearing a light blue suit and his round glasses. They're both looking at each other somberly as Lois Lane stands in the background between them, looking at them both. END ID]

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These delight me. WeightWatchers can get absolutely fucked.