New Survey Reveals Lack of Permissive Attitudes Towards Pornography in US
According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, most Americans don’t think that viewing pornography is harmless or morally acceptable.
I found this rather interesting since pornography is one of if not the most readily available entertainment genres in this country and across the world. This is, of course, because it is easily available for anyone on the Internet, instantly, at no cost. Pornographic sites currently make up 12 percent of all sites on the web.
If you think about how vast and varied the modern cyberscape is, that is an astounding number. 2006 estimates put the number of pornographic sites on the net at 4.6 million, with 460 million pages of pornography. Considering that some estimates say 260 new porn sites are added to the Internet each day, the number of sites will be closer to five million by the end of this year.
The survey was conducted at the behest of Morality in Media, an organization which carries an obvious bias against anything pornographic, but when one looks at the actual questions of the survey, the claim that 76 percent of Americans don’t condone pornography has veracity. You can review the questions here.
The originators of the survey make a salient point when they say that the consumption of pornography does not necessarily indicate acceptance of it. In other words, just because people are looking at pornography does not mean that they approve of what they themselves are doing, which certainly lends credence to the theory that pornography is an addictive substance like some drugs. We do know that viewing pornography can trigger some of the same neurochemical reactions in the brain.
So, the bigger question from this study must be, if the majority of Americans don’t find online pornography acceptable, why do so many Americans let it into their home?
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Re the question: why do so many people use internet porn when they don’t approve? Porn IS an addictive activity, and addicts are often split between being an addict and doing the things that this/her addiction wants/drives them to do, and a deeper, I would suggest HIGHER part of their being which knows that this addictive activity (booze, drugs, porn, gambling) is harming them. Porn’s more subtle in the sense that unlike drink of drugs it’s not obviously physically harmful, and unlike gambling it doesn’t cost much, if anything. Because of this it’s harder to combat. There’s no doubt in my mind that porn is possibly the worst type of addiction because it profoundly degrades the inner feeling of which sexuality is a part, and influences young men in particular to view girls and women as objects to be manipulated according to the most recent porn activity they watched.
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One problem is that most people, (especially men) don’t want to admit that it is a problem (or addiction), for fear of being associated with it and grossly labeled, whether they have a problem with it or not. So they pretend that they are above it, and that it is “everyone else” they are trying to protect, which only serves to perpetuate the myth. If more people (especially men) were honest about it, I think we would find that over 90% of men have at least a mild problem (or addiction), with a great percentage having serious problems (or addictions). It has just become too easy to find, and difficult to avoid, and it is time to admit that ALL of us need internet filtering. (Not just our kids). So to answer the question: why do so many people use internet porn when they don’t approve? Because they don’t want to admit that they are weak, and that they need help! Sometimes all it takes is a little help. I say, lets get it out of our homes, and out of our businesses, and we will have taken a big step in getting it out of our lives!