Turns Out That Despite What Everyone Thinks, Porn Users Respect Women Far More than Non-Porn Users

(Source) — The assumption that people who watch porn are more likely to hold negative or sexist views of women has been challenged by a recent study in the Journal of Sex Research. In fact the opposite might be true, the study links those who watch porn with more positive views towards women. We spoke with lead author Taylor Kohut, from the The University of Western Ontario, to get an insight into the research.

ResearchGate: What encouraged you to study how watching pornography effects people’s views of women?

Taylor Kohut: It is often said that pornography causes users to devalue women and this devaluation is expected to contribute to gender inequality in society. This has motivated attempts to introduce—or in some places, change—legislation concerning the regulation of obscenity across the world. It’s also a major assumption in a great deal of research concerning the link between pornography use and sexual aggression. With that said, the assertion that pornography users devalue women and try to maintain structures of inequality to ensure that women remain subservient to men has not received much direct empirical attention.
RG: Your hypothesis was that porn watchers weren’t into gender equality. What did you find out?

TK: You’re right, according to radical feminist theory, pornography users should hold more gender non-egalitarian attitudes than non-users of pornography. We tested this basic hypothesis across five variables pulled from American General Social Survey data and did not find any supportive evidence. In fact, pornography users were more supportive of women in politics, more supportive of women working outside the home, and more supportive of women’s access to abortion, than were non-users of pornography.
RG: Did the results surprise you? If not, why?

TK: I’m a skeptic by nature, and I had certainly had suspicions that the hypothesis would not be supported. At the same time, it was a bit of surprise to find evidence of higher gender-egalitarianism among pornography users. Now, after discussing the findings with some colleagues, and performing some post-hoc analyses, the results are beginning to make more sense.

Well how about that? Everyone thinks that porn gives men an unrealistic view of women, as if romantic comedies perfectly portray what women should expect from a man? That women are just fuck dolls designed to wear skimpy clothing and take it in the ass? Well not so fast, my friend! Porn guys have tons of respect for women. They watch a blowbang and think “a woman of the people, should be running for office!” Check out a creampie and realize “Well she should definitely be able to kill that.” See a female doctor get up and start riding a guy to revive him and realize that women in medicine sometimes can do miraculous things and they should chase those dreams. That’s what porn does. It opens the mind and broadens the horizon. Let’s you know that women are miraculous creatures who can survive huge undertakings. Porn guys love and respect women, they love and respect them so much that they don’t even talk to them. So you want to condemn a group? Condemn the non-porn users and their stuck up religious conservative asses, feminists. Don’t come at the porn fans.

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