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Thursday, December 27, 2007

College Students Tell Researchers that using Pornography is Acceptable

A majority of college students believes that it is okay to use pornography, according to a new study from Brigham Young University. In fact, about one in five male college students said they view pornography every day or nearly every day. Some 86% report that they viewed such materials at least once this year.

Among college women, nearly half said that porn was acceptable, but only 31% have actually viewed it and only 3% were regular users.

Jason Carroll, author of the study, also found that regular porn use is linked to risky behaviors such as binge drinking and having sex with multiple partners. Carroll surveyed 813 students from six different colleges for the study, which appears in the Journal of Adolescent Research.

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Labels: college, media_infuences, porn

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

1 in 3 Canadian Middle School Boys Heavy Users of Internet Pornography

A comprehensive survey of Canadian children ages 13 and 14 years old found that the vast majority had seen pornography over the Internet or watched it as a rented movie. The most dramatic finding was that one-third of the boys told researchers they used pornography deliberately and had seen it "too many times to count."

Boys in rural areas viewed more porn than their urban counterparts.

Sonya Thompson, a graduate student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, was the author of this study.

Labels: boys, internet, porn

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