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Are there any real studies on the "corrosive influence" of porn on children? I'm pretty sure every young teen boy has seen porn these days. The only actual stud
by JDDunn9 13y ago
Are there any real studies on the "corrosive influence" of porn on children? I'm pretty sure every young teen boy has seen porn these days. The only actual studies I'm aware of say that porn reduces actually violent sex crimes. It acts as a substitute.
- conroy 13y ago> In one study surveying 471 Dutch teens ages 13 to 18, the researchers found that the more often young people sought out online porn, the more likely they were to have a "recreational" attitude toward sex--specifically, to view sex as a purely physical function like eating or drinking. > [T]he team also found a relationship between porn use and the feeling that it wasn't necessary to have affection for people to have sex with them. However, > [R]esearchers can't say for sure whether access to Internet porn causes certain attitudes and behaviors. http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.aspx http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.aspx
- jamesaguilar 13y agoAlso, I know it's outside the scope of this research, but it's yet to be demonstrated that a recreational attitude toward sex leads to lower well-being.
- brokenparser 13y agoDon't know why this was downvoted, I couldn't have put my thoughts into better words than this. But to to the narrow-minded, let me put it another way: We have contraceptives, we can have sex whenever we damn choose to, with whoever we fancy.
- gilgoomesh 13y agoIt's extremely difficult to quantify negative impacts or get people to accurately recall what they may or may not have seen. It's almost as difficult to approve studies on children. This study: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2005.8.473 http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2005.8.473 Showed a correlation between children who seek out porn on the internet and delinquency. However, there's no indication of causation.
- ibotty 13y agoquestioning authority is a good thing though.
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- lemming 13y agoCitation, please? Everything I've seen suggests that porn is pretty socially debilitating, especially for the current generation which has grown up with almost ubiquitous access to it (see for example http://www.internetsafety101.org/upload/file/Social%20Costs%20of%20Pornography%20Report.pdf http://www.internetsafety101.org/upload/file/Social%20Costs%...). And that's not even the really nasty stuff.
- nostromo 13y agohttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-side-of-smut http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-s... > For most people, pornography use has no negative effects—and it may even deter sexual violence
- subsection1h 13y agoThe report you linked to was produced by the Hoover Institution and the Witherspoon Institute. Do you have any reports that weren't produced by gay-hating Christianist organizations? Thanks.
- nostromo 13y agoTeen pregnancy is also way down: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db89.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db89.pdf
- erifneerg 13y agoI would contraceptive usage would play a much larger part then internet porn.