#TalkPorn: Is #Porn Addicting & Potentially Dangerous, or Just Harmless Entertainment?
Channel: Quit Porn Group Text Hotline Help for Porn Addiction
Date: 2013-08-24

Is porn harmless entertainment? Or can it actually be dangerous? This video is a short collage of various clips showing different aspects and opinions on the nature of pornography. It raises poignant questions on porn's link to sex crime, the harms of failure to enforce obscenity laws, and the reality of porn addiction. It also asks us whether we as a community should be concerned that so many adolescents are viewing porn as a form of sex education.
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Additional Notes:

Child Pornography Offenses are a Valid Diagnostic Indicator of Pedophilia

Individuals who use child pornography and have offended against children and individuals who use child pornography and have not offended against children are more likely to be pedophiles than individuals who have offended against adults or individuals who have offended against children but do not use child pornography. 

Seto, M., Cantor, J. & Blanchard, R. (2006). Child Pornography Offenses are a Valid Diagnostic Indicator of Pedophilia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 3, 610-615.

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Helpful Links:

1. Porn as a catalyst for rape:
a. http://thethinkervideos.tumblr.com/post/51380304327/shocking-abuse-in-porn-exposed-warning-very
b. http://www.dianarussell.com/porn_as_a_cause_of_rape.html
c. http://www.antipornography.org/sex_crimes.html
d. http://www.worldstaruncut.com/uncut/29782

e. boys who were frequent consumers of pornography and/or reported learning a lot from pornography were also more likely to say that is was "OK" to hold a girl down and force her to have intercourse (Rachman and Hodgson, 1968).

f. Check and Guloien's experiment revealed that the viewing of both the non-violent dehumanizing materials as well as the violent materials resulted in male subjects reporting a significantly greater likelihood of engaging in rape or other coercive sex acts than the control group. (Canadian psychologists James Check and Ted Guloien 1989)

g. The boys who were the most frequent consumers of pornography and/or who reported learning a lot from it, were more accepting of rape supportive beliefs than their peers who were less frequent consumers and/or who said they had not learned as much from it. (Malamuth and Check 1981)