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Australian study says pornography is good for you
"The surprising finding was that pornography is actually good for you in many ways," Dr McKee said. "When you look at people who are using it in everyday life, over 90 per cent report it has had a very positive effect." Dr McKee said porn users reported it had taught them "to be more relaxed about their sexuality" and marriages were healthier, while porn made people think about another person's pleasure and made them less judgmental about body shapes. "Pornography is actually good for you" has long been a guiding principle of Daze Reader's editorial philosophy. However, the methodology used in this study sounds questionable. Radio program The World Today took up the pornography issue yesterday. NICK GRIMM: Alan McKee is one of the authors of the "Understanding Pornography in Australia" study. ALAN MCKEE: We asked the consumers who were filling this in to give us some feedback about what kind of effect pornography had had on their attitudes towards sexuality. Now what we've found was that out of the 1,025 people who responded, 6.9 per cent felt it had some kind of negative effect on their attitudes towards sexuality. Or 35 per cent felt it had no effect, and almost 58 per cent told us that it had had a positive effect on their attitudes towards sexuality. NICK GRIMM: But Alan McKee's conclusions have been challenged by the author of another study into internet pornography, Clive Hamilton from the Australia Institute. CLIVE HAMILTON: Well, I think this is dodgy research. The research is based on a sample of 1,000 pornography users, who are self-selected over the internet, so they asked people to fill out a survey. So it's really the people who are likely to have positive attitudes towards their use of pornography who are going to fill in such a survey. But those who are disturbed by it or feel guilty about it, aren't going to respond to that sort of a survey. So I don't attach much credence to those results. The anti-porn guy has a point. Any competent grad student could rewrite the survey questions, solicit respondents on different websites, and get radically different findings.
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A government-sponsored academic study in Australia, commissioned as part of the debate over internet filtering laws,