Questions tagged [pornography]
printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.
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Is the increasing availability of high speed internet pornography reducing sex crime rates?
Some early studies show that the availability of pornography does not increase the rate of sex crimes.
Research on pornography has generally been of various types (Tovar, Elias, & Chang, 1999)....
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Is pornography addictive?
I saw the Gary Wilson's talk, The Great Porn Experiment, which states that pornography causes arousal addiction which in turn is supposed to have a lot of negative effects like:
ADHD
Social anxiety
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Does pornography "entice sexual violence against women"?
Wikipedia summarises a view of some anti-pornography feminists:
[They] say that consumption of pornography is a cause of rape and other forms of violence against women. Robin Morgan summarizes this ...
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Pornography and the male libido
Does watching pornography reduce or otherwise affect the desire of men to have actual sex?
This claim has been made by numerous people, including Naomi Wolf in The Porn Myth.
The broader claim is ...
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Did Australia ban small-breasts pornography?
There is a widely spread news about Australia banning pornography featuring actresses with A-cup breasts.
Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs
Australia's 'small breast' ban
Australia Bans Small ...
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Do men with no prior exposure to child pornography go on to harm children once exposed?
UK government advisor John Carr, of the Council on Child Internet Safety, claims in a radio interview:
Mr Carr said there was "no question" that some men who look at child sex abuse images ...
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Is the porn industry important in the adoption of new technology or media?
I constantly see people and articles referencing how porn drove the adoption of the Internet, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, Mobile, insert your technology of choice, etc.
Now I'm not discounting he popularity ...
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Can Porn lead to Erectile Dysfunction?
I am referring to the claim made by yourbrainonporn.com and also NoFap movement:
"It's hard to know exactly how many young men are suffering from
porn-induced ED. But it's clear that this is a ...
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Is the income of the porn industry 50% of the revenues made on the Internet?
Yesterday a friend of mine told me that most of the money which is made in the internet is going to the porn industry. First I didn't believe any word and I was like "Hey, shut up! There is still ...
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Does pornography bring in more money than all US sport franchises combined?
I've been sent chain emails about pornography industry revenues and was quite flabbergasted by some of the figures. The version I recalled hearing was that pornography brings in more revenue than all ...
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Are youths that watch violent X-rated material 6 times more likely to force others sexually?
Internet Safety 101 reports:
Youth who look at violent x-rated material are six times more likely
to report forcing someone to do something sexual online or in-person
versus youth not exposed ...
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Is regularly viewing internet pornography unhealthy? [closed]
Have there been any conclusive studies that found negative (or positive) effects from viewing internet pornography on a regular basis? Certainly a google search turns up a lot of results but most aren'...
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