[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.

[Zack Nguyen]

Haven't read that study yet. But even without giving the matter intensive study, I can easily conclude (at minimum) that porn is not a net positive for a community.

I would further argue that it is not neutral either. Sex and how it is portrayed cannot be neutral. Showing women or men naked in blatantly exaggerated (and sometimes degrading) positions of sexual arousal and gratification does not lift humanity, and is not artistic. It advances the view that permiscuous (did I spell that right?) sex is desirable, that the gift of sex is something to be displayed in the most base manner, and that women exist to fulfill that desire.

Add it up, and porn must be a net negative for a society that is invaded by it.