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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Porn addiction is a very real thing that people suffer from.

[–] paultimate14 15 points 7 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

By that logic, alcohol addiction isn't a thing

[–] paultimate14 1 points 7 months ago

Except that there is plenty of evidence that alcohol is physically addictive and causes withdrawal symptoms. So, by my logic, alcohol addiction is a thing.

Because it's not just my logic. I'm leaning on the history of years and years of medical professionals and scientists doing research. And their conclusions are that alcohol addiction is a thing porn addiction is not.

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