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SkinShallow's avatar

Online gambling of all kinds (from slots to classic casino games) is legal in the UK and while it has definitely seriously exacerbated "problem" gambling, it's NOTHING like porn. Mostly because almost every male and a lot of females masturbate to visual or textual stimuli (internet has also vastly improved access to largely very badly written but still usable smut, btw) and sexual drive is pretty universal. The BEHAVIOUR is not "porn usage", it's wanking, and it's universal for half the population and very common for the other half. Porn merely facilitates it in sometimes enjoyable, sometimes compulsive ways. Gambling is nowhere near as universal and while it hijacks our reward circuits, it isn't exactly instinctual.

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Klaus's avatar

At the very least, the five-category image isn't any worse than my Mario 64 tangent which made a similar point.

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