They both display a fear of what is physically real.

They both refuse to see people as body-persons.

Male/female are fixed binary distinctions. There are deviations from the norm, but they are deviations.

Post-modernists are simply wrong when they claim that these things are based on one’s perception, rather than reality.

It has to do with spending too much time with technology and fictional people.

I do neither of those things. Perhaps statistically you and I would cancel each other out.

Project much? I only see Regnerus bashing bigotry in your comment.

“Regnerus says that there is an “association” between porn viewing and support for marriage equality.”

Because there is one – and it’s visible in any representative sample you study. It has to do with liberal ideology on sexuality and relationships.

This ideology states that it is legitimate and normal for a person to pursue dysfunctional, disoriented, perverse, and perverted sexual kicks. Thus it normalizes homosexuality and porn (aside from hook-ups, sex with strangers, promiscuity, etc.).

What does porn say? It says that homosexuality is normal. It also says that carrying out any perverse and perverted, violent, deformed sexual acts is just fine. As long as you get your (deformed) sexual thrills, that’s all that matters – that is one of core messages of porn – and what makes it so popular.

Pornography is a testament to how warped, dysfunctional, and perverse millions and millions of people are in regard to their sexuality ideology.

Thus it intersects in many ways with the very same discourse of people who normalize homosexuality: “there is nothing wrong, disoriented, or dysfunctional with any homosexual dynamic that pops up in anyone’s mind.”

Generally speaking, people who have normalized porn are not in the least interested in examining how perverted they are as regards sexuality, in the very same way that people who insist on normalizing homosexuality refuse to face how disoriented and dysfunctional it is. Thus, they insist that the reasons why an individual developed a homosexuality problem must never be investigated or known.

Violent games have increased our tolerance for violence and we recently reaped the whirlwind of gun violence.

All that studies have been able to show in that regard is that a fraction of people who already show issues may be affected by video-game violence. Practically everyone in my generation grew up with Looney Tunes and other violent cartoons, but most were able to make a distinction between that fantasy and real life.

Not much.

David replied: Yes there is:

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No, there isn’t.

The study referenced does NOT measure how much porn was consumed in any state at any given time, nor do we know who exactly consumes porn.

It measures only credit card receipts from one provider.

This is like saying a study that measures the purchases of Smirnoff’s alcoholic beverages in one state is actually measuring the total consumption of all alcoholic beverages in that state, and can then provide a national comparison with other states.

In addition, purchase of porn does not equal total consumption, because contrary to alcohol, it is readily available without the need for purchase. One provider does not equal all providers.

No one has measured how much porn has been consumed in any state for any period of time, because that data has simply not ever been available to researchers.

Furthermore, this study implies that if a state is classified as “Red,” then all of its consumers are Republican and socially conservative, another profoundly misleading conclusion.

However, what this does underscore is the problem that social conservatives are fully aware of regarding the Republican party: a sizable number of Republicans are either liberal or quite liberal. This includes normalizing homosexuality, porn, promiscuity, prostitution, etc.

““When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different,” says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School.”

Which people? Republicans who normalize homosexuality, promiscuity, and porn are more like Democrats who normalize homosexuality, promiscuity, and porn? Oh, astounding.

The real quality difference in people lies exactly in those who do not normalize porn, homosexuality, promiscuity, prostitution, etc., and those who do.