There's A Very Simple Reason Why This Study Shows That Porn Viewers Are More Likely To See Women As Equals

PSY-  People who watch pornography hold views of women as more equal to men than people who do not watch pornography, and are no less likely to describe themselves as feminists, according the results of a study published in the Journal of Sex Research.

A study led by Taylor Kohut, of Western University, addressed this controversy using data from more than 28,000 people who participated in the General Social Survey, an annual study of attitudes in the US population, between 1975 and 2011. The survey asked participants if they had watched an X-rated movie in the last year. It also included several questions regarding their attitudes towards women.

In total, 23% of Americans told researchers that they had viewed pornography in the last year. Both male and female pornography viewers had better attitudes towards women working outside the home, and were more supportive of abortion rights, in comparison with those who had not watched pornography.

In addition, male pornography viewers had more positive attitudes about women holding positions of political power in comparison with male non-viewers. There were no differences between pornography viewers and non-viewers in terms of either feminist identification or attitudes towards traditional family gender roles.




​I would love to tell you that pornography has made me a more progressive person. I really would.  I wish I could say that watching a 19 year old girl getting a cock shoved down her throat with excessive force is responsible for my belief in equal rights. It would make me feel far better about myself after clicking on that little red unforgiving X. For some odd reason, I just can't bring myself to do it. I can't put my finger on what, but there just might be another small factor at play here. 

Oh, wait. Yup. That's it. I knew that 23% figure seemed off. I guess no one ever told the 'Journal of Sex Research' that any study done over a THIRTY-SIX year span is going to return inconclusive results? I'll tell you why porn watchers believe in equality. It's because the popularity of pornography directly correlates with the rise of women's rights. Men weren't popping in XXX VHS tapes in 1975 when they were slapping their wife on the tookus and telling her to get back in the kitchen. Just like the people who were narrowing their online search for bukkake videos in 2011 weren't fighting against women's suffrage once they cleaned the pipes. Porn and equality have coincidentally grown up together, but they didn't help raise each other. They are both a reflection of society at large during that time period. Maybe shortening that time period to less than three decades would give us a more accurate depiction of how consumers of porn feel about the fairer sex. I doubt it would change anything. After all, anyone that thinks that women shouldn't leave the laundry room probably doesn't like viewing them on their knees in the pool house, but at least we could get a study that didn't reference a period of time when people used 'All In The Family' as a legitimate portrayal of day-to-day life.