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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996
Sender: •••@••.••• (Allen L Marshall)
Subject: Re: cr> query re: children & porn
Mark Atkins wrote:
> If anyone has any information on these 2 topics, I'd like to have it:
>1. Has there EVER been a study ANYWHERE that found some child to have
> experienced significant psychological disturbance after viewing
> pornography?
Sorry, Richard, but I'll respond here...
1. I know of no serious study into this (email me if there is one). It's
rather like the marijuana testing earlier this century. For those who
don't know, I'm referring to the test that "proved" marijuana caused brain
damage by blowing smoke from marijuana cigarettes into the faces of
monkeys. Blowing isn't exactly accurate. You see, the monkeys had the
smoke piped into their respiratory systems for 5 mins without a break for
air. I don't even smoke my plain old Djarums like that. I know no one who
smokes marijuana like that. And I would expect brain damage in anyone who
inhales nothing but carbon monoxide for 5 minutes (Hell, I'd expect them to
be dead.).
"Studies" that are quoted on television exposes and in other
propaganda by the religious right state that children who view pornography
grow up to be child molesting homosexuals who hate all members of the
opposite sex. What they probably say in the original studies is: child
molesters often have early exposure to pornography. That's more likely a
symptom of a disorder than a cause.
2. As for Compuserve, well, I've been boycotting them since I came on the
'Net. In fact, this mail probably violates my boycott. I refuse to even
send mail to Compuserve but I thought I'd reply to the list.
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