SIO311: What the Science Actually Says on Porn Consumption
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 26 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's part 2 of our sex stuff series. Dr. Lindsey Osterman did a deep dive into porn related research. Either that or I caught her looking at porn and she proposed this series as an elaborate cover. But either way you're getting some great stuff! Does the anti-porn side of the argument have the weight of evidence on their side? Is porn actually totally fine? Find out!
Links: Michael Hobbes, Human Trafficking, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, Revenge porn laws by state, Fisher & Kohut (2017) Pornography viewing: Keep calm and carry on, Grubbs et al (2018) Pornography problems due to moral incongruence, Reward Foundation (promotes porn abstinence; one of the authors on a review article claiming that porn is bad holds a position at this foundation), Ferguson and Hartley (2020) Pornography and sexual aggression: Can meta-analysis find a link?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquires Only. This is episode 3-11. |
| 0:16.0 | I don't know how to say that, remember that song? |
| 0:20.0 | That's what most songs sound like to me, but especially in the 90s. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, how are you doing, Lindsay? |
| 0:30.0 | You know, I got to be honest, not great, but having a lot of problems sleeping and I think I know why. |
| 0:36.0 | Why is that? I think it's my addiction to porn research. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm addicted to it. |
| 0:42.0 | Does that matter? Like, does that distinction matter? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, well, you know, I just read the articles. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, no, there's a lot of really weird stuff out there in the porn literature. |
| 0:56.0 | Get a load of this. |
| 0:57.0 | So there was a brief letter published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions by Castro and colleagues |
| 1:02.0 | and they indicated that when Fortnite crashed for 24 hours back in 2018, |
| 1:07.0 | porn hub searches for Fortnite increased by 60%. |
| 1:10.0 | Huh. |
| 1:11.0 | Isn't that weird? |
| 1:12.0 | There's Fortnite porn on porn here. |
| 1:14.0 | I, that was my reaction, too. Apparently so. |
| 1:17.0 | I've tried to, like, I don't want to say something stupid, but like, what's actually happening? |
| 1:22.0 | I have no idea. |
| 1:24.0 | I did not. |
| 1:25.0 | I did not look. |
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