Is porn and video violence good for children?
is porn and video violence good for children?
American teenagers are doing better than they've done in decades by trying to figure out why that might be. Teen pregnancy is down, along with teen crime, drug use, and many other social ills.
After that column came out, it occurred to me that I had the answer: Porn and videogames. That's what's making American teens healthier.
It should have been obvious.
After all, one of the great changes in teenagers' social environments over the past decade or so has been far greater exposure to explicit pornography, via the Internet, and violence, via videogames.
More virtual sex and violence would seem to go along with less real sex and violence.
While he says this in part in jest I think he may well have a point, it would seem the two things may well be related. They made such easy targets in their early years with people following the usual logic that anything they dislike or think is immoral must have bad consequences and side effects. But is that true? It would seem at worst there is a negligible connection.
I have a strong suspicion that while some "high moral" people may be dissuaded from engaging in these activities or admitting to these activities by society the net effect of them is probably more as suggested by this article.
The world is a complex place.
American teenagers are doing better than they've done in decades by trying to figure out why that might be. Teen pregnancy is down, along with teen crime, drug use, and many other social ills.
After that column came out, it occurred to me that I had the answer: Porn and videogames. That's what's making American teens healthier.
It should have been obvious.
After all, one of the great changes in teenagers' social environments over the past decade or so has been far greater exposure to explicit pornography, via the Internet, and violence, via videogames.
More virtual sex and violence would seem to go along with less real sex and violence.
While he says this in part in jest I think he may well have a point, it would seem the two things may well be related. They made such easy targets in their early years with people following the usual logic that anything they dislike or think is immoral must have bad consequences and side effects. But is that true? It would seem at worst there is a negligible connection.
I have a strong suspicion that while some "high moral" people may be dissuaded from engaging in these activities or admitting to these activities by society the net effect of them is probably more as suggested by this article.
The world is a complex place.
posted by Genius at 12:39 AM
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