Because parasocial relationships with ewhores isn't healthy, particularly at a stage in their life when they should be forming real relationships with their peers.

Scrolling through attractive women (generally the thirst-traps are women) doesn't imply forming a parasocial relationship. I agree that parasocial relationships are bad, but this is independent of them being thirst-traps. Internet thirst-traps are just the modern equivalent of sneaking a look at a playboy mag or a lingerie catalogue. Nothing inherently damaging about it. The scale of modern social media can make otherwise innocuous stimuli damaging, but this is also independent of it being content of sexy women.

“Nothing inherently damaging about it.”

I hear this claim from the pornsick but I’d like to see all the studies backing it up.

It's important to distinguish women looking sexy (generally not naked) from porn. Somehow the distinctions get blurred in these discussions.

Parasocial relationships are a different topic than pornography.

Are you saying that the intersection is uniquely bad? In either case limits to content made in an effort to minimize parasocial relationships cut across very different lines than if the goal is minimizing access to porn.

Parasocial relationships and getting sucked in by thirst traps on social media are inseparable.

I have a dumb question, but how do ewhores capitalize on this? Do they have teens running captcha farms or something?

They farm simps.

Can you explain how that's profitable when these people don't even have jobs? I believe you, I just don't understand how it works.

The people get shown advertising, and the advertisers are the ones paying money.

It's goalpost shifting. If the concern is parasocail relationships to content creators formed with pornography as the hook, then pornographic content where the actors aren't cultivating or interacting with a social media followerbase should be better, right?

Do I care when both are dangerously stupid to hook kids on?

Then support them. Too often you show up to scream "think of the children" without actually citing any research or empirical damage. If you refuse to argue in good faith and don't want to be told you're wrong, voting is the only thing you're capable of doing. Don't tell us about it, vote.

Everyone knows those laws do nothing, though; go look at the countries that pass them. Kids share pornography P2P, they burn porno to CDs and VHS tapes and bring in pornographic magazines to school. They AirDrop pornographic contents to their friends and visit websites with pornography on them too. Worst-case scenario, they create a secondary market for illegal pornography because they'll be punished regardless - which quickly becomes a vehicle for creating CSAM and other truly reprehensible materials.

They don't do it because they're misogynistic, mentally vulnerable or lack perspective - they do it because they're horny. Every kid who aspires to be an adult inherently exists on a collision course with sexual autonomy, most people realize it during puberty. If you frustrate their process of interacting with adulthood, you get socially stunted creeps who can't respond to adult concepts.