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Pornography-Induced Arousal Predicts Declines in Relationship Satisfaction and Stability, Study Finds

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A study conducted in Australia found that individuals who reported being more easily sexually aroused by pornography tended to experience a decrease in sexual satisfaction, as well as in relationship quality and stability, over the following two months. The paper was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. . .

The study’s authors, Nicholas J. Lawless and Gery C. Karantzas, sought to explore the association between pornography use and the stability and quality of romantic relationships, as well as sexual satisfaction. They hypothesized that individuals who are sexually aroused by their romantic partners would experience improvements in relationship quality over time. However, they were uncertain whether arousal to pornography would be linked to improvements or declines in relationship quality and sought to investigate this further.

The study included 309 participants, aged between 18 and 72, who reported being in a romantic relationship for at least six months. Sixty-six percent identified as heterosexual, and 25% as bisexual. On average, participants had been with their current partner for seven years. Nine percent reported being in a non-monogamous relationship, and 71% had no children. . .

Results showed that participants who reported higher levels of arousal toward their romantic partner tended to have better relationship quality, greater stability, and higher sexual satisfaction in both surveys. In contrast, individuals who reported greater arousal to pornography in the initial survey were more likely to report lower relationship stability and reduced sexual satisfaction two months later. They also tended to use pornography more frequently.

“Our findings suggest that porn arousal is associated with reductions in an array of relational outcomes over time. These findings have important implications for future research in understanding how feeling sexually aroused by porn can have negative downstream effects on relationship well-being,” the study authors concluded. (Read more from “Pornography-Induced Arousal Predicts Declines in Relationship Satisfaction and Stability, Study Finds” HERE)

School District Approves Pornographic Book In Class, Bans Requirement For Parental Consent

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Conservative Indiana lawmakers want to pass a bill banning sexually explicit material in school classrooms after another district approved a pornographic book in the face of parents’ objections.

In September, the board for the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (BCSC) in Columbus, Indiana (located between Indianapolis and Louisville), voted to approve a book titled Push by Sapphire, despite protests from parents concerned about graphic text. One board member read passages from the book at the meeting where they passed a measure that bars parents from keeping the title out of children’s hands.

“Just me trying to go through this right now makes me almost want to throw up,” he said.

The school board, however, denied a motion to require parental consent for children to access the book and approved another to keep the title on the school library shelves.

“After reviewing this matter, the Board concludes that Push by Sapphire is not ‘obscene’ or ‘harmful to minors’ as the terms are defined in Indiana Code,” a conclusion from the meeting reads. “The decision of the evaluation committee is upheld and the book may remain on the shelves of the Columbus East High School Media Center.” (Read more from “School District Approves Pornographic Book In Class, Bans Requirement For Parental Consent” HERE)

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Democrats Now Pushing the Right to Masturbate to Porn as a Big 2024 Issue (VIDEO)

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Democrats are leaning hard into a new talking point in their closing argument to voters — porn.

A new ad making the rounds on X is warning young voters that Republicans will ban birth control should they wrestle control of Washington.

The steamy spot begins with a young couple in the throes of passionate love when the man warns, “The condom broke.” . .

When the man heads to the bathroom to retrieve the over-the-counter contraception, he is confronted by a glowering old man in a suit who introduces himself as “your Republican congressman.” . . .

The ad follows another X-rated spot featuring the same leering GOP congressman character interrupting a man masturbating under the covers to inform him that Republicans are “banning porn nationwide.” (Read more from “Democrats Now Pushing the Right to Masturbate to Porn as a Big 2024 Issue (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Republican Proposes New Bill to Protect Children From Porn

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In a bid to shield children from explicit content on the internet, Tennessee Republican Rep. Patsy Hazlewood has introduced the “Protect Tennessee Minors Act.” The legislation aims to compel online pornography distributors to implement age verification measures, mirroring similar laws enacted in states like Virginia and Utah.

Rep. Hazlewood, Chair of the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee, emphasized the bill’s goal of equating safeguards in the online realm with those already established in the physical world. She asserted that exposing children to pornography constitutes a form of child sexual abuse and exploitation, with severe potential impacts on intellectual development and emotional well-being.

The proposed legislation proposes a stringent approach, requiring companies to match a user’s photograph with a valid U.S. photo ID. Failure to implement age verification could result in serious consequences, with websites facing a Class C felony charge, carrying penalties of up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Similar laws in Virginia and Utah prompted Pornhub to restrict access to its site for users in those states. Hazlewood’s bill reflects a broader societal concern, with Tennessee tech industry executive Jacob Levy stating, “My top priority is the safety and health of my children. Pornography is a societal disaster. Modernizing existing laws to require age verification will protect children from it and help the internet stay digital, not degenerate.”

This initiative aligns with a resolution passed by Tennessee lawmakers in 2017, designating pornography as a public health hazard. The resolution highlighted the detrimental effects of pornography, depicting women and children as objects and contributing to the normalization of violence.

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Watch: Undercover Video Shows Pornhub Employees Want Porn to Steer Young People’s Sexual Identities

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Employees of Pornhub’s parent company were caught on camera touting the benefits of underage kids watching pornography, and even suggesting that making videos of transgender-identifying people engaging in sex could help young people figure out their sexuality, according to a new video released exclusively on The Michael Knowles Show on Wednesday.

Arden Young, the undercover journalist behind the newly released video from Sound Investigations, told Daily Wire host Michael Knowles that the videos indicate that “protecting children is not a concern, maximizing profits is their concern, and they don’t seem to care who they hurt in the process.”

The new video documents employees of Aylo, formerly named Mindgeek, the parent company of Pornhub, admitting to attempting to steer viewers’ sexual proclivities.

Employee Dillon Rice, a senior script writer at the company, is seen arguing that pornography usage could be beneficial for preteens. “Let’s say you’re 12 years old, you’re still figuring out your sexuality, maybe even your gender, wouldn’t it be helpful to see not a celebration but maybe just a … normalization of something that you think is what you want?” Rice is seen saying.

Rice went on to specifically reference a pornography site centered around transgender individuals, remarking, “Let’s say I was 12 and I saw TransAngels … it would help me figure out what I do like and what I don’t like.”

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Anti-Porn Laws Are Sweeping the Country, but There’s One Crucial Problem Lawmakers Will Need to Confront

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Pornographic websites now have to verify the age of their users in several states, yet some advocates are claiming that the laws not only invade user privacy, but are also difficult — if not impossible — to enforce.

The pornography industry has argued in court that these laws would force pornographic websites to keep a database of sensitive information regarding their viewers. The industry also claims that the laws are easily evaded, meaning bad actors in the industry could operate black market sites that capitalize on exploitation and illegal content. The Free Speech Coalition, which is representing PornHub in a lawsuit in Texas, argued in a complaint that the law is “the least effective and yet also the most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’ stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

Likely fearing some sort of enforcement mechanism, PornHub did block users in certain states before the laws took effect, including Mississippi, Virginia and Utah. Users who try to visit PornHub’s website in these states are met with a message from a fully-clothed pornographic film star explaining why the site is no longer available.

“While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk,” the message reads.

(Read more from “Anti-Porn Laws Are Sweeping the Country, but There’s One Crucial Problem Lawmakers Will Need to Confront” HERE)

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Pornography Consumption Linked to Serious Health Issue for Men: Study

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A new study has revealed a concerning link between men who watch porn and a serious health condition.

New reports suggest a significant link between men who watch “problematic” pornography and the likelihood of them developing an eating disorder, according to research published in Body Image.

Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel conducted the study, which was released earlier this month.

A total of 705 men participated in the study, ranging in age from 18 to 68, with the average age 32.

Roughly 68 percent of the men stated that they were heterosexual, with the rest identifying as a sexual minority group. (Read more from “Pornography Consumption Linked to Serious Health Issue for Men: Study” HERE)

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Gaming and Porn Causing Young Men’s Testosterone Levels to Plummet, Worldwide

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On both sides of the Atlantic, young men’s testosterone levels are tanking, according to studies [leading experts to research why].

Extensive gaming is strongly associated with hyperprolactinemia, a condition that involves higher-than-normal levels of prolactin, the hormone best known for its role in breast tissue growth and milk production, in the bloodstream.

Also, video gaming is, contrary to popular belief, quite stressful. Video game anxiety is a real problem. Anxiety causes stress. In males, stress increases prolactin production. Too much prolactin interferes with testosterone production and affects a man’s ability to maintain an erection.

Similarly, excessive consumption of pornography is associated with lower reproductive hormone levels in men.

Moreover, excessive video gaming and porn use can destroy an individual’s sleep cycle. Impaired sleep is also strongly associated with low testosterone. (Read more from “Gaming and Porn Causing Young Men’s Testosterone Levels to Plummet, Worldwide” HERE)

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Deepfake Pornography Reveals Yet Another Risk Posed by Artificial Intelligence

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At the end of January, popular Twitch live-streamer Brandon Ewing — better known as Atrioc — was exposed in a now-deleted post online for allegedly patronizing a pornographic website that specialized in the production of “deepfakes” of online personalities, many of whom were his colleagues on Twitch and his personal friends.

Atrioc was accused of consuming pornography of his colleagues and friends that was generated through artificial intelligence (AI) technology without these individuals’ consent. In an apology stream, Atrioc admitted to the accusations and said he found the source of the deepfakes through advertisements on another porn website. He also admitted he was paying for videos in which AI was used to superimpose the likenesses of his friends and colleagues onto the bodies of pornographic actresses. . .

The recent development of using AI technology to create pornography of individuals without their awareness or consent is an incredibly pernicious phenomenon. Some online refer to it as a form of “free speech” and suggest its existence isn’t doing harm since the people pictured in the videos are often public figures who are only having their likenesses nonconsensually grafted onto sexual content and are not forced to actually participate in nonconsensual activity.

In some ways, the advent of deepfake pornography is akin to “revenge porn.” But revenge porn, the nonconsensual leaking of sexual materials in order to humiliate and exact revenge upon someone while using prior consent and intimacy as the genesis of this content, largely involves humans exploiting their past interactions with other humans.

Deepfake pornography, on the other hand, is created entirely out of whole cloth through advanced pattern recognition software that is able to fabricate compromising situations in which these people were never participants. Obviously, revenge porn isn’t a morally superior alternative to this, but the fact that these materials can be created through self-automating software ought to be deeply concerning. (Read more from “Deepfake Pornography Reveals Yet Another Risk Posed by Artificial Intelligence” HERE)

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Senator Proposes Bill That Would Enact Nationwide Pornography Ban

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Utah’s senior senator, having survived a reelection challenge from an independent candidate backed by state Democrats, is launching a two-pronged assault on companies that host pornography on their websites.

Mike Lee unveiled the twin pieces of legislation this past week, stating an intent to protect children online. One bill, dubbed “Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN)”, is clearly aimed at doing so, and would require such websites to ask users to provide their age before viewing content.

But a second piece of legislation introduced by the senator on the same day takes a much broader cudgel against pornographic content, and would remove a key protection that sexually explicit content currently enjoys in the United States.

As of right now, the right of Americans and others to share such content across state lines in the US (including online) is protected by the so-called “Miller Test”, a three-step test outlined by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in a 1973 ruling which determines when protected sexual content crosses the line into the unprotected realm of “obscenity”. Mr Lee’s legislation would eliminate one of those steps, specifically the one defining “obscenity” as content that “depicts or describes” sex “in a patently offensive way”.

Removing that language would mean that all sexual content, offensive or not, would fall into the unprotected definition of obscene content, which is prohibited from being transmitted across state lines, as well as between individuals in certain states. (Read more from “Senator Proposes Bill That Would Enact Nationwide Pornography Ban” HERE)

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