Porn study hits stumbling block

[Graham Kennedy]

So scientists Scientists at the University of Montreal wanted to do a study of how pornography affects the attitudes men have to women. They came up with questions to assess the attitude of men and set out to recruit those who regularly watched porn with the attitude of those who had never been exposed to it.

Unfortunately, they hit a slight stumbling block. They couldn't find a single man who didn't watch porn. Not one.

“We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. “We couldn't find any.”

In the end they had to settle for not having a control group at all.

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In other news, scientists have discovered that water is wet and the sky is blue.

[Tsukiyumi]

My attitudes toward women aren't based on how much porn I've watched, but my experience and relationships with them.




FYI: They aren't sugar or spice or anything nice; just like us males. Gender isn't a primary factor in how they treat other people either.

[Graham Kennedy]

From a science point of view it would be pretty poor form to just ask people if it's changed their outlook, as I'm sure you know.

But the article does say that the study data shows that porn users don't have a particularly bad view of women or anything.

[Tsukiyumi]

From a science point of view it would be pretty poor form to just ask people if it's changed their outlook, as I'm sure you know.

I'm sure they were more subtle than that, but I imagine they were interested whether there was a connection between heavy porn watchers and misogyny.

[Graham Kennedy]

Yeah, but often in these sorts of things they try and arrange it so that the subjects didn't know that was the connection they were looking for. Otherwise you don't test what bias people have, only what bias they think they have.

In the Milgram experiment, for instance, very few people would say that they were willing to torture a person just because they're told to by an authority figure. Turns out 65% of people will do just that.

[stitch626]

Hmm, they should have asked me. They just didn't look hard enough.

[Nutso]

Could've asked Catholic Priests. I'm sure they don't watch porn.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Could've asked Catholic Priests. I'm sure they don't watch porn.

Then again, they might watch more than anyone else, being sworn to celibacy and all... you never know!

[Mikey]

Not all of them... my wife's priest has a wife and two lovely daughters.

[Captain Seafort]

Not all of them... my wife's priest has a wife and two lovely daughters.

In which case he's not a priest - he's probably a deacon.

[Mikey]

Not all of them... my wife's priest has a wife and two lovely daughters.

In which case he's not a priest - he's probably a deacon.

No, he's a Catholic priest. In the Ukrainian rite (and most other rites) of the Byzantine Catholic church, married men may accept a vocation - men who are already priests, however, must remain celibate.