Reply #120

The numbers I've seen suggest that people who use porn on a frequent basis (daily or several times per week) represent only a small portion of the population. I don't doubt that the numbers cited in the OP are probably pretty close to reality.

I'll also agree that porn often does have an effect on the sexual relationships of those who use it very frequently. However, I'm not entirely convinced this should be characterized as "damage". The question becomes did those people turn to porn before or after they started having problems with their relationships. In other words, is porn a cause of this "damage" or is it just a symptom? Furthermore, even if someone chooses masturbation over a "normal" relationship, is this ethically wrong? If a woman choses to divorce her husband, buy a vibrator, and live alone, she's viewed as strong willed, yet if a guy decides he prefers masturbation to marital sex, he's looked at as some type of freak who is doing "damage" to women. I just don't buy that. If you want to live in a society where the goose and gander are treated at the same, those two perceptions don't jive.

One thing I can't agreeing with is the OP tries to suggest that viewing porn makes men rape little girls and that's just fucking nutty BS that is unsupported by any causal evidence. The rest of the article doesn't get any better. Dr. Donald Hilton, who is referenced as the neurosurgeon 'expert' is also the Mormon author of He Restoreth My Soul, so it's not very hard to see where the agenda lies there. I didn't check the rest of the cites, but I doubt they get much better. The only thing that's surprising is there's no cite for Judith Reisman, other than a vague reference to those who "echo these findings".