It's hard for me to believe, even though I acknowledge that I'm wrong, that there is some man/men out there that have not watched/enjoyed some sort of pornography ever or other men who do not watch/enjoy porn simply based on principle or some code of morals. And again, I'm really speaking about those men who have readily available access to it.
I'm not conciously trying to place "men" in a group of "Other," but I recognize that that's what I'm doing.
I guess that because I don't look at porn as inherently bad or negative it makes it easier for me to generalize.
You might have missed our Asian racism discussion yesterday about how even what appears to be benign stereotyping is still harmful.
Sexuality is as part of human nature as eating and shitting. So, yeah, I'm cool with generalizing about porn. Not regular consumption, but at least a few times even if just out of curiosity as a teen.
Also, ditto reeve. The religious areas I've lived are the most overt about their strip clubs (hey, I think I can make a generalization about anti-woman attitudes )I think at one point Nashville had the most churches and strip clubs per capita in the country.
Considering that very religious men are less likely to both watch porn and support same sex marriage due to their beliefs, I dont find this surprising at all. I'm interested to know what the study's methods were.
Judging by how many porn shops and strip bars there are in the heavily religious areas I have been to, I am not sure that the very religious men are less into the pornz lol.
LOL true. But I'd bet that very religious men are more likely to *try* not to watch porn and they're definitely less likely to admit they watch porn.
I could just swear that one time on this board, years ago, someone once posted a study / a finding that porn viewing was high among religous people... I thought they had figured it out because the number of pay per view orders or something were so much lower on Sundays / during church hours... Am I crazy? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
I'm not about to google this at work, though! lol.