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More women accepting of porn, according to study
One News Now ^ | March 17, 2008 | Allie Martin

Posted on 03/17/2008 2:54:06 PM PDT by Sopater

A new study shows young adult women are becoming more tolerant of pornography.

The research -- part of a larger study called "Project Ready" -- found that college-aged women could be more accepting of pornography than their fathers. According to the study, 65 percent of men, 48 percent of women, 36 percent of fathers, and 20 percent of mothers agreed that pornography was an acceptable way for someone to express their sexuality.

Pat Trueman of the Alliance Defense Fund says the results are not surprising. "... You've got a generation of people growing up embracing something that is not helpful, [and a society that] is treating women as though they're mere sexual objects," he criticizes.

Trueman also points out that porn gives young men a sense of "entitlement" when it comes to sexual relations in the dating realm. Consequently, he laments, "men don't know how to have a relationship -- [and] the women wanting a relationship seem to adopt the male point-of-view on pornography."

Researchers also found a correlation between the use of porn and participation in other risky behaviors, such as drug use, binge drinking, and promiscuous sexuality.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adf; generationy; porn; uselesswithoutpics; women
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The continued normalization of perversion.
1 posted on 03/17/2008 2:54:07 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Soap operas are a close fit.


2 posted on 03/17/2008 2:57:03 PM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Sopater

On initial read, this has the smell of the average “We don’t like X so we found a way to blame all the world’s troubles on it” study. I’ve seen these for video games, gambling, etc., and Richard Dawkins has probably done one on religion too.


3 posted on 03/17/2008 2:57:55 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sopater

Thread.

Useless.

Pics.

(had to be said...)


4 posted on 03/17/2008 2:58:50 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Sopater

The last statement seems to be more appropriate as the subject matter of this topic, than the “gender” aspect.


5 posted on 03/17/2008 2:59:13 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Sopater

Funded by the porn industry, no doubt. There has to be a link in there somewhere.


6 posted on 03/17/2008 2:59:32 PM PDT by lesko
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To: Sopater

Ever read some of the trashy novels that women have been reading for years? Talk about pornography.


7 posted on 03/17/2008 3:00:51 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: Sopater
Sad. We are not far from being the next Amsterdam and then Sodom and Gomorrah.
8 posted on 03/17/2008 3:04:05 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ex-snook

Soap operas, Danielle Steele books, yeeks!


9 posted on 03/17/2008 3:04:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: big'ol_freeper

At least they are fiction, though. I’m not saying they are right. I don’t read them. I’m just saying that pornography uses real people as sexual objects on film.


10 posted on 03/17/2008 3:04:30 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Sopater

In the age of internet, porn is the norm.


11 posted on 03/17/2008 3:04:53 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: crusty old prospector

We are sodom and Gomorrah during Spring Break and Mardi Gras in certain places of the US...


12 posted on 03/17/2008 3:05:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: Sopater

The continued normalization of perversion. ............. Government approved at the highest level 1992-2000. Maybe even more so after 2008.


13 posted on 03/17/2008 3:05:22 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( Clinton/Obama .. Obama/ Clinton ... Mc Cain/Obama .. Mc Cain/Clinton ... What a Choice!? Puleeeze!)
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To: big'ol_freeper

A friend of mine was caught looking at Internet porn by his wife. She was very upset, thinking she was without sin. Until the Lord of heaven convicted her regarding the soaps on TV that she consumed. Both recognized neither was without sin, they have reconciled.

Porn - in any form - is cancer.


14 posted on 03/17/2008 3:06:37 PM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Pinkbell

Ummm, the films are fiction too. The only difference is one is visual, the other is mental. It’s all fantasy and fantasizing about sex. Those books are pretty graphic.


15 posted on 03/17/2008 3:06:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: Old Sarge

“Thread.

Useless.

Pics.”


I just did something stupid, looking for a joke picture to post for you I googled images for ‘goat porn’.

I didn’t know that there really is such a thing, what a mess, it has been a while since I have made such a stupid, rookie, internet mistake.


16 posted on 03/17/2008 3:06:50 PM PDT by ansel12 (Ronald W. Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr., both were U.S. Army veterans.)
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To: Sopater

What did you expect after going through pornified schools for 12 years?


17 posted on 03/17/2008 3:07:43 PM PDT by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Hey! Leave my “flash n trash” books alone! ;-)

And no I won’t tell you my favorite author. :-)


18 posted on 03/17/2008 3:07:44 PM PDT by RikaStrom (The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg

Exactly. Men tend to be more visual in their lusts than women, but titillating the mind is just as unfaithful (if married) as titillating the eyes. We are all called to chastity.


19 posted on 03/17/2008 3:09:35 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg

It isn’t just “porn” porn. For some people it can be a magazine ad if it causes you to go down a road you know you shouldn’t...

I refer you back to Seinfeld:

“GLAMOUR???”

“I had a choice to make, either zip up, or run over and catch my mother from falling.”

“What did you do?”

“I zipped up.”

“But..”

“Well I couldn’t go over there the way I was...”

“I guess not.”


20 posted on 03/17/2008 3:10:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: Secret Agent Man

I tend to agree with you on that one. I am sure some perv is making the latest “Girls Gone Wild” video from this month’s exploits.


21 posted on 03/17/2008 3:11:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ansel12
stupid, rookie, internet mistake.

A few days ago, I was looking for the website of "Dick's Sporting Goods" (east coast hunting, fishing, sports megastore) ...

Here's a hint:

It's NOT www DOT dicks DOT com ...

It's www.dickssportinggoods.com ... trust me.

22 posted on 03/17/2008 3:13:49 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Sopater
college-aged women could be more accepting of pornography than their fathers.

Imagine that. More accepting of depravity than their fathers, just at the time of life when their fathers are thinking about the hole in their wallet and the odds of keeping their daughters out of trouble. All I can say is, it's a good thing they asked college girls—those models of reflection, experience, mature judgment, independence, and self-restraint—to represent "women." Otherwise they wouldn't have gotten nearly the result they wanted, and no grant money next time around. Most grantors in the social sciences want to pay for "leading-edge" results that reinforce their politics, not the mere accumulation of truth.

Just give the gals about 10 years, when they're not hemmed in by the "values" of the Nietzschean college environment, and when they have children to protect and husbands they depend on. The change will make your head spin.

23 posted on 03/17/2008 3:15:20 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: crusty old prospector

Well come on, include the girls who are more than willing to do anything as perverted little sluts as well...


24 posted on 03/17/2008 3:17:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: ansel12

Oh yeah - it’s amazing what an innocent-seeming Google search will show to the unsuspecting eye.


25 posted on 03/17/2008 3:22:34 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Sopater

compared to the throbbing and heaving of the Harlequin Romance Novel?


26 posted on 03/17/2008 3:23:08 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Sopater
a society that] is treating women as though they're mere sexual objects," he criticizes.

Aren't they?

27 posted on 03/17/2008 3:23:32 PM PDT by montag813
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To: ArrogantBustard
LOL. Several years ago, I worked a few summers at Dick's Sporting Goods. One day, a caller called and asked, "What's your web address? I went to www.dicks.com, and you wouldn't believe what I saw."

I put the phone on mute because I couldn't stop laughing. He was either dead serious or a master of deadpan.

28 posted on 03/17/2008 3:24:02 PM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Old Sarge
Thread.

Useless.

Pics.

Here you go ;-)

Hehee...


29 posted on 03/17/2008 3:24:53 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Sopater
I have a feeling we'll be seeing a "porn" video featuring this woman soon...


30 posted on 03/17/2008 3:25:50 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Sopater

Am I the only one who wondered about the line, “. . . agreed that pornography was an acceptable way for someone to express their sexuality.”

Doesn’t that sound like “Wankers Of The World Agreed that pornography was an acceptable way for someone to express their sexuality.”

Bah! Humbuggery!


31 posted on 03/17/2008 3:27:53 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: montag813

Lets hope so.


32 posted on 03/17/2008 3:30:27 PM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: Red Steel

Three Our Father’s and three Hail Mary’s for that. Go forth, and sin no more.


33 posted on 03/17/2008 3:30:59 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: ansel12

Sometimes it hits when you least expect it. My mother-in-law had a piano with wooden keys I could not identify. So I used an image search (without a safe-search option) to look at different samples of dark woods from a list (which did not contain pictures). Everything was fine until I searched “ebony wood”. Daaayaam. Google safe-search has made for a much more predictable image searching experience. :)


34 posted on 03/17/2008 3:31:51 PM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: Red Steel

Well, that’s certainly obscene according to community standards.


35 posted on 03/17/2008 3:32:19 PM PDT by purpleraine
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To: Sopater

I hate porn. It distracts me from embracing True Love. Porn offers a dangerous fantasy, wastes my time, causes me to compare my best friend to a demonic lie.

If women truly understood how weak men become to images, even because of “soft” porn, then women would do better in protecting us men from pornography.


36 posted on 03/17/2008 3:49:27 PM PDT by SaltyJoe (Lenin legalized abortion. Afterward, every life was fair game for Death.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Hey, I just saw one of those on the I-10 to Tucson here in Phoenix. It’s near the Ikea. I’ve never heard of it before but I could tell that I was behind the times, LOL.


37 posted on 03/17/2008 3:52:30 PM PDT by donna (The United States Constitution and the Koran are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Sopater

This isn’t surprising, since this is the demographic who are MAKING THE PORN!!


38 posted on 03/17/2008 3:56:34 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: montag813

Who’s that?


39 posted on 03/17/2008 3:57:20 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: ansel12
LOL! Yeah, that "Safe Search" thingy is there for a good reason but it doesn't always work. last week (I swear this is a true story) a good friend of mine was looking for tropical fish and made the mistake of searching on "adult green scat." At work.

Don't.

40 posted on 03/17/2008 3:59:05 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ramius

Dina Matos McGreevey, AKA Finger Cuffs.


41 posted on 03/17/2008 4:02:45 PM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: MediaMole

Based on my experience being the only male in an office full of constantly blabbing chicks, I would say that the average sub-35 female attitude toward “mainstream” porn is “eye roll...all guys look at it...just clear the history.’


42 posted on 03/17/2008 4:03:04 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: ansel12

I came across a tv show last night, flipping through the channels, and not sure which channel but the topic was cyber sex/internet dating, and this woman, college aged with a boyfriend who she was having sex with and also having cyber sex.

Now, I’m a little stupid, don’t see how cyber sex is sex but it was an eye opening show. She sees her boyfriend or the guy she’s dating casually, and they have sex but not daily so she goes online to have easy sex. That’s what I got from the show. And, the report said that this is common today. I found it interesting.


43 posted on 03/17/2008 4:03:16 PM PDT by Twink
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To: SamuraiScot; All
I was going to say that the article says "college-aged" not "college students", but I did a search for Project Ready and found this:



Project READY is a collaborative effort by scholars at several universities across the nation to better understand the attitudes and behaviors of young people. We appreciate your willingness to participate in this project.

Note: Your parent's survey is only accessible through an e-mail invitation that will be sent once your survey is completed.
Looks like you were even more correct than you might have imagined...
44 posted on 03/17/2008 4:13:01 PM PDT by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Now, now, nothing about “throbbing” in this thread..........


45 posted on 03/17/2008 4:13:13 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Sopater

I am against the prevelance of pornography, but realize that’s merely my take on an interest of others who see it much different than I do.

When I think of what drives men to do right, I am often reminded of the assumption of purity. Be it purity on a national level or one of a personal nature, nothing drives men like the assumption of purity.

Is a nation worth defending? Is it’s women and children worthy of the ultimate sacrifice? Where do we come down on these issues?

It is the purity of nation, woman and the inocense of children that drive us to defend our homeland or project our power in foreign lands. For without these, what price is worth paying?

What is liberty without the assumption of national purity or the innocense woman and son or daughter that touches us to the soul?

Show me a society that has devolved to the point that porn is king, and I’ll show you a society where the king is not worth the efforts of good men.


46 posted on 03/17/2008 4:15:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some think McCain should pick his No 2 now. I thought the nominee was No 2. And that No 1s me off!)
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Oh those naughty gals!!! They need to be turned over a knee.

Photobucket

47 posted on 03/17/2008 4:19:08 PM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Now, now, nothing about “throbbing” in this thread..........


48 posted on 03/17/2008 4:25:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Always Right
The Internet is for Porn!
49 posted on 03/17/2008 4:26:12 PM PDT by humblegunner (™)
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To: Sopater
...36 percent of fathers and 20 percent of mothers ...

Not in this house!


50 posted on 03/17/2008 5:03:56 PM PDT by deuteronlmy232 (I do not have a political correct bone in my body. Thank God!)
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