> ..addictive, dangerous substances that do great harm to families.
Wait, what? For one, I hardly think that porn the primary cause of any damage to a family; I would think that any family damage blamed on it probably has some deeper seated problems than porn. I further think that you would be hard pressed to prove that it is dangerous, especially when people are seeing actual naked people all the time without any damage. Addictive is arguable until the cows come home, mainly because addictive is a very subjective word.
And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.
And:
Now let’s look at attitudes towards women. Studies of men who had seen X-rated movies found that they were significantly more tolerant and accepting of women than those men who didn’t see those movies, and studies by other investigators—female as well as male—essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship between the amount of exposure to pornography and any measure of misogynist attitudes. No researcher or critic has found the opposite, that exposure to pornography—by any definition—has had a cause-and-effect relationship towards ill feelings or actions against women. No correlation has even been found between exposure to porn and calloused attitudes toward women.
Please. There was a long thread about that link here just the other day. Correlation is not causation; the decrease in sex crimes over the last thirty years cannot just be attributed to the increase in availability of pornography, as the authors of that paper seem to think.
But think of all those sperm cells that did nothing more than moisten a kleenex. All of those are future babies that were basically murdered in cold blood!!!
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> ..addictive, dangerous substances that do great harm to families.
Wait, what? For one, I hardly think that porn the primary cause of any damage to a family; I would think that any family damage blamed on it probably has some deeper seated problems than porn. I further think that you would be hard pressed to prove that it is dangerous, especially when people are seeing actual naked people all the time without any damage. Addictive is arguable until the cows come home, mainly because addictive is a very subjective word.
Studies back up your hunches:
And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased.
And:
Now let’s look at attitudes towards women. Studies of men who had seen X-rated movies found that they were significantly more tolerant and accepting of women than those men who didn’t see those movies, and studies by other investigators—female as well as male—essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship between the amount of exposure to pornography and any measure of misogynist attitudes. No researcher or critic has found the opposite, that exposure to pornography—by any definition—has had a cause-and-effect relationship towards ill feelings or actions against women. No correlation has even been found between exposure to porn and calloused attitudes toward women.
Read more: Porn: Good for us? - The Scientist - http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/
The anti-porn brigade is just as bigoted as the anti video game brigade.
The anti-porn brigade is just as bigoted as the anti video game brigade.
Porn and video games are enjoyable. Enjoying your life is a sin! Don't you get it?
Now get back down into that salt mine!
Please. There was a long thread about that link here just the other day. Correlation is not causation; the decrease in sex crimes over the last thirty years cannot just be attributed to the increase in availability of pornography, as the authors of that paper seem to think.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184510 for discussion about your link and its dubious methods.
Psst, your double-standard is showing.
But think of all those sperm cells that did nothing more than moisten a kleenex. All of those are future babies that were basically murdered in cold blood!!!