A recent study has again proved that pornography is even damaging to a
healthy sex-life (contrary to what some people think).
Men who watch pornography several days a week or more depend on it
more for arousal but enjoy sex less in real life, according to a new
report in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Ana Bridges, an associate professor of psychology at the University of
Arkansas, and her colleagues studied 487 male college students. They
found that how often men watched porn correlated directly with how
much they wanted to act out scenes they'd seen. The more they watched,
the more they relied on pornographic fantasies in the bedroom as well.
"Pornography is sometimes dismissed, celebrated or problematized as
fantasy," Bridges wrote. "[B]ut pornography is also much more. What
happens on the screen may implicate life off of it."
Bridges also said in her study that most of porn focused on "acts of
violence and degradation toward women," neglecting tender touches,
kissing, laughing and verbal compliments.
Patrick A. Trueman, president of Morality in Media, said that porn is
"a public health crisis" that government and society need to address.
(NYdaily News)
