[Zack Nguyen]

I found a study done by the Candian Institute for Education on Family, in which they studied the effects of pornography on children which led to deviant sexual behavior for them in adulthood. I haven't read it yet, but you can see it here:

http://www.cief.ca/research_reports/harm.htm

Pornography is quite harmful to a community, in my view. Just like cocaine or heroin, not everyone who takes it turns to destructive behavior. But porn and deviancy do seem to be connected quite a bit.

Hugh Hefner did not birth the porn industry. But it would be fair to say that he brought it to the mainstream, that he made it acceptable and even glorified it.

[Antoninus]

Pornography is quite harmful to a community, in my view. Just like cocaine or heroin, not everyone who takes it turns to destructive behavior. But porn and deviancy do seem to be connected quite a bit.

Ask Jeffrey Dahmer.

Admitting you use and enjoy porn and are proud of it in a public forum is, to my mind, the equivalent of wearing a pot-leaf hat. It identifies you as a loser.

[xenophiles]

I found a study done by the Candian Institute for Education on Family, in which they studied the effects of pornography on children... I haven't read it yet, but you can see it here:

http://www.cief.ca/research_reports/harm.htm

I thumbed through it; pages and pages of preaching to the choir, loads of sinister-sounding but really pretty meaningless statistics, and a long part in the middle explaining that it's basically impossible to show a causal connection between pornography and sexual crime.

When I can pick three random paragraphs in a "study" and find three logical errors I feel justified in chucking the whole thing.