PIED: Unfortunately Not a Pi Day Celebration
Pi Day 2019 is a good day to explore the issue of the similar-sounding but totally different subject of PIED -- "porn induced erectile dysfunction." Researchers not only disagree over ...
Tag: science of porn
Study: Fewer Minors Unintentionally Viewing Online Porn
Anti-porn activists often cite minors' unwanted exposure to online pornography as a factor in favor of establishing tighter regulation of online content. A recent meta-study suggests the rate of such ...
Dear ‘Researchers’: Your Porn Premise is Flawed
MONTREAL – In my current state of mind, I don’t know quite how to make it sound more professional, journalistic or erudite, so I’m just going to say what I ...
Splitting Pubic Hairs: Does Porn Cause Sex Crimes?
SAN FRANCISCO – On his Psychology Today blog, journalist Michael Castleman is reevaluating the question "does more porn mean less rape?" The big thudding sound you just heard was my ...
New University Porn Study is Fundamentally Flawed
MONTREAL – Perhaps you’ve heard it sung by the Mynabirds, read it in a book by Terry Bisson or maybe heard some version of it in the context of a sports ...
Pornosexual? Vibrosexual? Wankosexual? You Decide
GLENDORA, Calif. – If you study crime statistics, or any other statistics that track trends, you’ll quickly notice something undeniable: All trend lines start at zero, not because the events or ...
Why Be a Pervert When You Can Be a Blameless ‘Addict’?
SALT LAKE CITY – Are the devoutly religious more apt to become compulsive porn viewers, or are they simply more likely to term themselves “porn addicts” due to feelings of ...
The Science of Porn, Fish and Blind Dates
HERZLIYA, Israel – For some reason, in their unrelenting search for truth, or for something close enough to truth to justify applying for a grant, researchers are constantly fucking with ...
And People Wonder Why I Don’t Trust Surveys
DUBLIN – When anti-porn activists talk about the pervasiveness of online porn, one of the statistics they frequently cite (typically without attribution) is a claim about the average age at ...
Another Day, Another Porn Meta-Analysis
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – If I were to tell you a lot of data suggests watching porn makes men less satisfied in their relationships, but the same data indicates porn-watching does not ...
