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Watching porn boosts support for same-sex marriage
The Washington Examiner ^ | February 4, 2013 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/05/2013 6:24:48 AM PST by Academiadotorg

There is no delicate way to say this: Exposure to pornography softens opposition to same-sex marriage among the largest group of naysayers, heterosexual men.

A new scholarly analysis suggests that the more straight guys, especially those who are less educated, watch pornographic videos, the more they warm to same-sex marriage. The reason: Porn opens their mind up to accepting non-traditional sexual situations, like gay sex.

"Our study suggests that the more heterosexual men, especially less educated heterosexual men, watch pornography, the more supportive they become of same-sex marriage," Indiana University Assistant Professor Paul Wright told Secrets.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Computers/Internet; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; marriage; porn; psychology; samesex

1 posted on 02/05/2013 6:25:03 AM PST by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

I beg to differ. I watch lots of porn and do not support same sex marriage in the least.


2 posted on 02/05/2013 6:32:41 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Academiadotorg

lipstick lesbians make the best hot mamas?


3 posted on 02/05/2013 6:32:45 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Academiadotorg

Lack of morality. Not hard to figure out.


4 posted on 02/05/2013 6:35:07 AM PST by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: vpintheak

Liberals say “It’s progress, it’s the future.”

3,500 year ago the Jewish prophets wrote about the same kind of moral decline - homosexuality, tree worship, godess worship, people following their own morals. There’s nothing new about it.


5 posted on 02/05/2013 6:39:04 AM PST by Fido969
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To: Academiadotorg

And in other news going on lots of dates makes men taller and more handsome...


6 posted on 02/05/2013 6:46:53 AM PST by LastNorwegian
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To: LastNorwegian

Well put. If this were one of our “raise the level of discourse” threads, we would need the Latin for the journalist’s error: “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” - after this, therefore because of this - but you made the point better.


7 posted on 02/05/2013 6:52:01 AM PST by Pollster1
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To: glorgau

I believe a lot of men watch Lesbian porn. I doubt many watch male gay porn. For some reason many men wonder what women do that attracts them to other women.

The answer is nothing a man cannot do better.


8 posted on 02/05/2013 6:58:54 AM PST by Venturer
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To: LastNorwegian

I like your post due to it’s shortness. And awesomeness.


9 posted on 02/05/2013 7:13:01 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Academiadotorg
Yeah, I’d say that Romans had it about right….It’s a slippery slope all the way (no pun intended) once the barrier is crossed from a proper, healthy and God approved sexual relationship of a wife and husband because on the other side, it quickly leads all the way to outright depravity. First the softening of an opinion on whether sex is acceptable outside of the marriage context. Then once that barrier is crossed, the slope essentially changes into free-fall…..what is acceptable sexual behaviour and particularly so as people turn sexual activity into a spectator sport. One only needs to look at porn for a minute to realize that it’s nature is to be ever-increasing in its outrageousness as women engage in that that which is not natural to the husband-wife relationship. Then, once the concept of sex as viewer entertainment/sport is in some form acknowledged as being acceptable, it makes it much easier for the same sexual acts to be performed by same sex participants, threesomes, foursomes, animals and so forth. It’s time that the word ‘perversion’ came back into common usage….. Romans 1:26-27 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
10 posted on 02/05/2013 7:16:12 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Academiadotorg

Needs spun round the other way. People who watch lots of porn have more libertine views on sexuality and are more likely to support gay marriage (along with a lot of other things).


11 posted on 02/05/2013 7:46:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Venturer
many men wonder what women do that attracts them to other women

I had a friend, who, in another lifetime, handled IT for a porn site. Thankfully, he only handled the computers and stayed away from the front of the camera (shudder....him posing would have single-handedly ended the entire porn industry overnight...) This was back in the mid-90s, when the Internet was just firing up.

He said that he learned two things....what is presented as porn, and what porn is, are completely different. He said that a photo shoot is about as sexy as going to the bank and making a withdrawal. 100% business, and that's it.

AND, he said that when two women are together, if a guy jumps into the mix, he just gets in the way. :-) "It ain't what you think!", he said, approximately.

12 posted on 02/05/2013 7:54:11 AM PST by wbill
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To: Academiadotorg

BS


13 posted on 02/05/2013 8:52:11 AM PST by BO Stinkss
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