Utah biggest porn consumer
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Shades wrote:I'll explain: The reason Utah has the highest amount of porn consumption is because I live in Utah.
And you still manage to hold down a full-time job, and have a family. I'm truly impressed with your multi-tasking abilities, Shades!

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Has the BYU student code been extended to include the random search of files on their computers, since they **gasp** might be downloading this devil's handiwork?
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Thisis an interesting study done at BYU on the subject:
A new study finds female college students more accepting of pornography than their fathers, suggesting the rise of Internet porn may be creating a generational shift that encompasses both genders.
Researchers at Brigham Young University conducted the study with college students and their parents from six schools across the country. Nearly half of the female students, 49 percent, said viewing pornography is an acceptable way to express one’s sexuality. Only 37 percent of the dads agreed.
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Chap wrote:Droopy wrote:Postmodernism finalizes this conceptual extrapolation
It is this kind of cruelty to the English language that makes one question whether it really is such a good idea to give everybody the chance to learn to read and write.
Ahhh thanks, that needed to be said. After reading Doopy's full post, I had the distinct impression that someone had beaten him within an inch of his life, with a thesaurus.
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It may be that single men, returned missionaries with their first credit card, are actually purchasing the majority of these subscriptions, and getting the "premium" content. Perhaps married men who share financials with their spouses, opt for the free content available with the anonymity it allows.
A study that monitored free porn content, by ip address location, would also be interesting. I would not be surprised at all to find that Utah outstripped the rest of the nation by a fair margin in this area. In Saudi, 70% of data files transfered between cell phones(pictures, videos) are pornographic. A culture that has strict sexual mores, may inadvertently heighten an interest in that area.
A study that monitored free porn content, by ip address location, would also be interesting. I would not be surprised at all to find that Utah outstripped the rest of the nation by a fair margin in this area. In Saudi, 70% of data files transfered between cell phones(pictures, videos) are pornographic. A culture that has strict sexual mores, may inadvertently heighten an interest in that area.
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cinepro wrote:Thisis an interesting study done at BYU on the subject:A new study finds female college students more accepting of pornography than their fathers, suggesting the rise of Internet porn may be creating a generational shift that encompasses both genders.
Researchers at Brigham Young University conducted the study with college students and their parents from six schools across the country. Nearly half of the female students, 49 percent, said viewing pornography is an acceptable way to express one’s sexuality. Only 37 percent of the dads agreed.
It would be interesting to know about the nature of the study. How rigorous was it? DCP
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hobart wrote:Maybe being a taboo in the Mormon community makes it more tantalizing? Maybe not having the ability to have sexual relationships freely without guilt before marriage leads to curiosity on the internet?
I have read researchers that claim that the excitement that comes from porn is fueled by taboo breaking. Porn gets you off if there is something naughty about it. If you look at how porn is organized, you will see that it conforms to that. It would follow that societies that have more beliefs about the "naughtiness" of sex would be more compelled to use porn. Hence the high use among Mormons and Muslims. Topless bars don't work wear everyone goes around topless. ;)
As to the epidemic, I think it is real. I bet the occasional use probably is closer to 80% of males under 60 and 33% of females under 60. The epidemic for the Church is that it will weed out a lot of normal people who will not like the cog dis of living two lives. This will lead to only people who walk around under crushing guilt and a set of sociopathic members who can believe the Church's teachings on sex and not apply it to their own porn behaviors.
So it is an epidemic of the Church's own making. It is clear that they don't know what to do. They talk in vague generalities and not specifics. They don't dare say: "masturbaters cannot go on a mission" but they clearly want to. This is nothing new, but the access to porn is. When I was about 13 I remember going to a fireside for the "boys only" in which the speaker talked about masturbation for an hour. Except he never specifically mentioned it. It was all vague reference and innuendo for an hour. I remember straining to try figure out if that is actually what he was talking about and what should be the consequence. I walked away with no useful information.
The Church truly does not know what to do. They know that the have masturbating Stake Presidents advising masturbating Bishops telling masturbating youth how to repent and kick the habit. It is truly comical from the outside but tragic from the inside. There are perfectly normal, health boys and girls being crushed by an ignorant and backward moral system.
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John Larsen wrote:I have read researchers that claim that the excitement that comes from porn is fueled by taboo breaking.
That's what makes the problem so interesting. What if the only way the Church could "win" the war on pornography was to just let it go? What if the harder they fight against it, the more LDS men want to look at it, and the only way to reduce their interest is to tell them it's OK to view it with wisdom and moderation?
As with anything, there will always be those people who can't view it "with wisdom and moderation", and then it becomes a problem. But just as the Church is able to deal with individuals with eating disorders while at the same time understanding that most people can enjoy the occasional dish of ice cream without going overboard, could the Church move towards a similar attitude for pornography? And does it have any other choice?
Because with our current, porn saturated world, I'm not sure the current no-tolerance policy is going to help. Or maybe the Church leaders just need to talk about it a little more, and things will get better.
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Maxrep wrote:It may be that single men, returned missionaries with their first credit card, are actually purchasing the majority of these subscriptions, and getting the "premium" content. Perhaps married men who share financials with their spouses, opt for the free content available with the anonymity it allows.
A study that monitored free porn content, by ip address location, would also be interesting. I would not be surprised at all to find that Utah outstripped the rest of the nation by a fair margin in this area. In Saudi, 70% of data files transfered between cell phones(pictures, videos) are pornographic. A culture that has strict sexual mores, may inadvertently heighten an interest in that area.
The problem with getting too detailed is that the information has been provided by the company themselves for research purposes, and too much detail might get people to cancel their subscriptions, which wouldn't be a bad thing except it probably violates the goodwill of the company providing the data in the first place.
Hmmm...maybe the Church should take a page from the To Catch a Predator playbook and setup LDS-centric porn sites that are especially alluring to LDS men, and then bust the LDS men when they sign up. Might it one day come to that?
I'll leave it to the peanut gallery to suggest the nature of porn that would be more alluring to LDS men.