Flutterby™! : porn is good

Porn is good for you.

...Now here is the kicker: A positive correlation was obtained between the amount of hardcore pornography that was viewed and the impact of the benefits reaped. This positive correlation was found for both sexes. In other words, the more that one watched porn, the stronger the benefits (for both sexes)! There you have it.

That drawing on Gert Martin Hald1 and Neil M. Malamuth, Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption and various other articles, and is courtesy of ErosBlog's "porn is good for you".

ErosBlog followed that up with a look at how porn might be good for society, largely stuff you already know, pointing to The Scientist magazine's look at the inverse correlation between pornography availability and sexual violence:

... ooking closer, Michael Goldstein and Harold Kant found that rapists were more likely than nonrapists in the prison population to have been punished for looking at pornography while a youngster, while other research has shown that incarcerated nonrapists had seen more pornography, and seen it at an earlier age, than rapists. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing. Richard Green too has reported that both rapists and child molesters use less pornography than a control group of “normal” males.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Religion Sociology ]

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