With the growth of substitutes for martial sexual pleasure, like
Internet porn, marriage’s function to serve this need has steadily been
decreasing.
Virtual pleasure could be a means of “easy sex” with stimulating variety. “Men, who can ejaculate in about two minutes with the right imagery, today have endless access to fast sex every day — and any time of day,” wrote psychotherapist Laurie J. Watson in Psychology Today.
"We asked ourselves, what is helping determine whether people are married or not?" said Dr. Michael Malcolm, author of the study and a professor at the University of West Chester, Pa., The Washington Post reported. "One of those things, we thought, could be the use of pornography."
Malcolm and his colleague George Naufal, author of the study from Timberlake Consultants sought to examine whether substitutes for marital sexual gratification may impact the decision to marry.
More than 1,500 participants were recruited from the General Social Survey (GSS) — a comprehensive, nationally representative survey — to analyze how 18- to 35-year-old men used the Internet between 2000 and 2004.
The researchers wondered to what effect, if any, pornography use negatively affects marriages in the U.S.
They focused on how many hours each participant spent on the Internet per week and how many reported having used the Internet to view pornography in the past 30 days.
Other activities such as the use of religious websites were also observed. Malcolm adjusted for a number of variables, including age, income, education, religiosity, and employment, which have all been shown to be linked with marriage.
He also adjusted for the possibility marriage has an impact on porn use, but not the other way around. CONTINUE READING
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Virtual pleasure could be a means of “easy sex” with stimulating variety. “Men, who can ejaculate in about two minutes with the right imagery, today have endless access to fast sex every day — and any time of day,” wrote psychotherapist Laurie J. Watson in Psychology Today.
"We asked ourselves, what is helping determine whether people are married or not?" said Dr. Michael Malcolm, author of the study and a professor at the University of West Chester, Pa., The Washington Post reported. "One of those things, we thought, could be the use of pornography."
Malcolm and his colleague George Naufal, author of the study from Timberlake Consultants sought to examine whether substitutes for marital sexual gratification may impact the decision to marry.
More than 1,500 participants were recruited from the General Social Survey (GSS) — a comprehensive, nationally representative survey — to analyze how 18- to 35-year-old men used the Internet between 2000 and 2004.
The researchers wondered to what effect, if any, pornography use negatively affects marriages in the U.S.
They focused on how many hours each participant spent on the Internet per week and how many reported having used the Internet to view pornography in the past 30 days.
Other activities such as the use of religious websites were also observed. Malcolm adjusted for a number of variables, including age, income, education, religiosity, and employment, which have all been shown to be linked with marriage.
He also adjusted for the possibility marriage has an impact on porn use, but not the other way around. CONTINUE READING
MEDICALDAILY
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