Originally posted by FeceMan
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/porn_effects.html#other
Interesting read, though doesn't prove anything.
In fact, in the "Limited Effects" section it says "Despite Donnerstein and Linz's conclusion that violent pornography likely has some effect on negative attitudes towards women, a number of studies have found no such results."
In the "Criticism" section it even lists why the studies listed are often rejected as valid or plausable evidence that porn causes negative behavior.
Finally, in the "conclusion" it says that "just like debates about television violence or the effect of the mass media in general, there are no clear answers."
So these studies and this website, while an interesting read, does not prove that porn messes up the mind.
Originally posted by BackFire
Interesting read, though doesn't prove anything.In fact, in the "Limited Effects" section it says "Despite Donnerstein and Linz's conclusion that violent pornography likely has some effect on negative attitudes towards women, a number of studies have found no such results."
In the "Criticism" section it even lists why the studies listed are often rejected as valid or plausable evidence that porn causes negative behavior.
Finally, in the "conclusion" it says that "just like debates about television violence or the effect of the mass media in general, there are no clear answers."
So these studies and this website, while an interesting read, does not prove that porn messes up the mind.
Originally posted by FeceMan
I know it doesn't prove it, though there is evidence that it may occur (this is generally with the really ****ed up porn). I purposely picked the site because of the criticisms offered.
The validity of the evidence is questionable. This is made obvious by the fact that the people heading up the experiments listed seemed to have an agenda right away to show that porn has negative consequences.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Because numerous studies have been conducted to suggest such.Men who have raped other men are hetrosexual in 98% of the cases.
I am waiting for you to provide me with a study or a research which suggest that rape is not exertion of power but is done in the name of pleasure.
So you think no-one has ever raped for pleasure? Otherwise, it's a generalisation.
Forget studies. It is mostly power. It isn't always power.
Lest we forget, rape is sex where consent is absent.
If you say rape is never about sexual pleasure, then that is a generalisation, and moreover it is wrong.
What no one seems to understand is that it isn't amatter of 'what you hear'....it's a matter of 'how loudly you hear it'. We are all exposed to Marilyn Manson..but we don't all shoot up our schools. We all have the chance to play video games....but we don't kill people because of it.
We, as human beings, are exposed to a wide variety of situations, events, etc. But...what speaks to us is our own minds? The introduction of porn has no ill-effects, unless life itself was going to corrupt someone to that very point, anyway. I have heard that people are capable of great wrongs...but that doesn't mean that I'm out there killing every human soul I encounter. Those that do, were always going to do so....it's just a matter of placing blame.
Sure, you can use the excuse that "it didn't happen before". But it did, it has...and it will continue to happen. The past is irrelevant. We live in the here and now. School shootings will happen, until we ban the weapons that allow such events to take place. "From my cold dead hands"...is a nice sentiment...for Heston, but the side effect are hundreds of kids dead. Ban weapons for the average citizen, and school violence will end. What's left for them t do? Argue loudly against the fact that social cliques form...because of human nature?
My mother never had a clue of the kind of music I like. When she was in my room talking to me and I had Emperor playing, she was a bit taken aback by it. In time, she actually become passively appreciative of the music through casual exposure to it.Does this increse the chances that she's gonna go out and become a black metal vocalist? No it doesn't.
Yes, yes it does.
The chances of her becoming a metal vocalist after actually hearing & slowly enjoying metal music doubles 100 fold in compairison to the chances of her becoming a metal vocalist before hearing hard rock & knowing it exists.
It's pretty simple rational that a person will be more willing to commit an act after seeing it and enjoying it than a person who didn't know that the act existed in the first place. Especially concerning pedophelia, which is governed more so by culture than by natural law.
Originally posted by long pig
Yes, yes it does.The chances of her becoming a metal vocalist after actually hearing & slowly enjoying metal music doubles 100 fold in compairison to the chances of her becoming a metal vocalist before hearing hard rock & knowing it exists.
It's pretty simple rational that a person will be more willing to commit an act after seeing it and enjoying it than a person who didn't know that the act existed in the first place. Especially concerning pedophelia, which is governed more so by culture than by natural law.
That's all wrong though isn't? Because someone could see a murder being committed and enjoy it, yet still be afraid of the consequences enough to not do it. It's like women who have sexual fantasies, for some reason, about rape. I doubt they actually want it to happen just because they enjoy a certain aspect of the idea.
Pete Townshend was revealed to have child material on his comp, the man is no abductor. He said himself that he'd never dream of going out, kidnapping a kid and hurting him or her.
-AC