A study, published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture, concluded that the more a person watches porn, the more likely they are to be accepting of extramarital affairs --which the researchers note is one of the leading causes of divorce in the U.S. Researchers used data from 551 married adults collected by the General Social Survey (GSS) -- the only national, personal interview survey examining social beliefs in the U.S. In order to determine their porn consumption, participants were asked questions like, “Have you seen an X-rated movie in the last year?” Then, to gauge their thoughts on cheating, they were asked questions like, "What is your opinion about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than the marriage partner?” After examining all the responses, researchers note that the results were clear: “Pornography consumption was associated with more positive subsequent extramarital sex attitudes in both analyses.”
Author’s note: What the world, especially the West, is experiencing right now is a massive brain-washing effort on a global scale; i.e. the repeated viewing of sexually explicit material is literally rewiring the brains of all human beings. This begins in children, who are already primed for porn consumption through the intrusive and all pervasive main-stream media and its reliance on shock imagery, then through actual internet porn that is accessed by sometimes innocently veering through the portals of YouTube, music videos, and video games. By the time children begin to experience actual hardcore porn, they are already open to it, readily able to absorb its implication in terms of human relations and sexuality, and agreeable to the false illusion that porn mirrors a healthy and desirable reality; hence the rise of rather talent less, but always willing to pose naked pop-stars, the emergence and phenomenal popularity of wanna-be amateur porn-sites like Xtube, and the disturbing vogue for adolescent and teen sexting.
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