I mean, there are sex-averse asexuals. People who are disgusted by the idea of sex. Like it’s just another gross biological function.
They tend to view the relief from sex the same way using the restroom provides relief. And most people don’t enjoy using the restroom; They just enjoy the relief they feel afterwards.
If you’re an artist struggling to get off the ground, one of the best and easiest ways to start making reliable money is to draw smut. If you become known as a smut artist who takes commissions, money comes pouring in left and right.
And if you’re willing/able to do furry art, your rates just quadrupled, because furries will pay lots of money to get their fursona drawn doing various degen things.
I refuse to be that person.
A while back, I was having issues with my headphone mic. It was getting killed by the manufacturer’s config program. The mic would work until the program launched, then it was dead until I rebooted. Even killing the program with Task Manager wasn’t enough; I had to fully reboot. It was clearly an issue with the program, but the only thing they’d say was “lul try reinstalling.” I found a single lonely forum post with the same issue, and it didn’t have a solution. The issue is that the program also configured some other peripherals, so simply removing it from my startup programs wasn’t an option.
After a lot of troubleshooting, I finally figured out that it was because the program needed admin rights. Why did it need admin rights to use my mic? Who fucking knows. But you can’t run programs as an admin automatically at startup, for security purposes. And even if you could, you’d get the UAC prompt every single time you booted up. It’s a massive pain in the ass.
So instead, I created a .bat file to automatically launch the program with admin rights and skip the UAC, but you can’t run .bat files via startup programs. So I used the scheduler to automatically run it at login instead.
And then I went back to that one lonely forum post, and described the solution in excruciating detail, along with step-by-step screenshots, (but the explanation was enough to do it without the screenshots, in case the screenshots get purged by the image host later!)
My only hope is that it’ll be a beacon in the dark for the next lost and lonely soul who has the issue.
Real talk though, it’s because your brain can’t tell the difference between dream movements and real life movements. Basically, it’s to prevent you from actually punching whatever you’re laying next to. Your brain has a few methods to stop this, but the last resort is simply that your brain stops you from making any fast/forceful movements in dreams. Because the alternative is that you’d potentially punch your partner laying in bed next to you.
If you’re looking for a good middle ground, maybe kbin will be more your speed? It’s compatible with both Lemmy and Mastodon. So even if you don’t have the right Mastodon users to follow, you can still get content via Lemmy.
My guess is another CSAM attack. In case you weren’t aware, there are some bad actors who will occasionally use AI to generate CSAM, then post it on any servers they can find using bots to get things to the /All front page.
And since instances are usually just run by one or two people, response times can be long. Because the instance owner won’t even know anything is wrong until they log on.
Many instances defaulted to disabling image posts to stop attacks in the short term, so the admins can work on scrubbing the existing posts and banning any users that posted it.