This is disturbing sign of what we’ve passed on to the younger generations:
Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users.
But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.
“We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. “We couldn’t find any.”
Although hampered in its original aim, the study did examined the habits of those young men who used pornography – which would appear to be all of them.
Prof Lajeunesse interviewed 20 heterosexual male university students who consumed pornography, and found on average, they first watched pornography movie downloads when they were 10 years old.
I found this shocking until I realized that most twenty-year-olds have had access to the Internet for at least ten years.
(Via: <a href=”http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/89370″>Instapundit</a>)
December 3rd, 2009 | 9:10 am
It’s good to see that an inability to find a control group didn’t deter the ‘researchers’ from drawing the conclusion that it was all OK and porn consumption didn’t have any untoward effects. After all, the men told the interviewers that they didn’t engage in sexual practices that they found disgusting and they still wanted fulfilling relationships.
December 3rd, 2009 | 9:13 am
Searching for non-porn users at a large university in North America, and in Montreal no less, of course is a futile task.
They may want to search among certain groups elsewhere, such as Amish or fundamentalist Christians, but then again, how would you propose the study to the participants or their parents: “Hello – we are doing a study and would like to corrupt your children with pornography to see the effects. What do you say???”
I think not.
December 3rd, 2009 | 12:17 pm
Remember how Google and Yahoo are so obeisant to Chinese censorship? These are the same companies who strenuously opposed the U.S. Communications Decency Act, and we’re paying the price for it.
John Lukacs has said that pornography is a form of utopian literature. This will have significant political consequences.
It is incessant pornography, not incessant appeals to equality, that has normalized homosexuality among young people. It’s just seen as one more consumer option.
December 3rd, 2009 | 1:28 pm
No effects? Only 30% of couples in Quebec marry, and the rest live in a series of common-law relationships. The birth rate is one of the lowest in the world. And they say porn culture has no impact? I wonder what they would consider to be an impact?
December 3rd, 2009 | 1:58 pm
Kevin Jones wrote:
“It is incessant pornography, not incessant appeals to equality, that has normalized homosexuality among young people. It’s just seen as one more consumer option”.
Bingo. And to limit anyone’s consumer options is unthinkable, and indeed irrational.
December 3rd, 2009 | 2:21 pm
What were they comparing the young men’s views to, to tell they had not changed? And what if what they want and what they can get are not the same?
December 3rd, 2009 | 3:03 pm
Anyone who has taken even the most basic stats class should know that twenty men is hardly a sample that can be representative of the general population. Had they interviewed 200 men, I might be more inclined to find any of their conclusions credible.
December 3rd, 2009 | 7:32 pm
Any parent who leaves their child, especially their son, in a room alone with a computer hooked to the internet is just begging to have their child at least exposed to porn and possibly become a regular user. When our kids were growing up we allowed them to use one computer and it was in the kitchen nook, where anyone could come up and watch what they were viewing. I am astounded at how many parents fail to take even the most basic precautions in this area.
December 3rd, 2009 | 8:40 pm
Patrick F. Fagan of the Family Research Council has just released a quality report on this topic.
Google “THE EFFECTS OF PORNOGRAPHY ON INDIVIDUALS, MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY”
Bad news for the future. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.
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