Saturday, February 9, 2013

Watching porn makes straight men more receptive to the idea of same-sex marriage, new study claims

I posted recently about how straight men can become more susceptible to having sex with another man through the amount of porn he watches. I have also sat with gay and straight men who have told me that they have engaged in various sexual activities which were introduced to them from porn.

I don't judge this to be a positive or negative thing as much as I try to understand the person's relationship to the sexual activity.

That said, it makes sense to me that the more porn a straight man watches the more receptive to the idea he would be of gay marriage. The more positive exposure people receive to witnessing gays in any way, the less homophobic they become and research has shown this to be true as well. To read some of this research I recommend Dr. Herek's research http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/sexual_prejudice.html

This study supports this idea.

Watching porn makes straight men more receptive to the idea of same-sex marriage, new study claims Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2273376/Watching-porn-makes-straight-men-receptive-idea-sex-marriage-new-study-claims.html#ixzz2KRnbT7az Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Campaigners for same-sex marriage have always come up against particularly vociferous opposition from heterosexual men.
But a study from the U.S. has suggested a novel method of persuading them to soften their stance on the divisive issue: get them to watch dirty videos.
The new academic analysis suggests that the more that straight men watch pornography, the more they warm to the idea that two people of the same sex could be married.
Paul Wright, assistant professor of communications at Indiana University and author of the study, said the effect was particularly marked in men who were less-well educated.
He said the change in attitude could because of pornography opens their mind to accepting non-traditional sexual situations - like those involving participants of the same sex.


To read the entire article click here http://washingtonexaminer.com/study-watching-porn-boosts-support-for-same-sex-marriage/article/2520461/article/2520461

6 comments:

No Hetero said...

This is interesting, though exactly the most robust study. It's a goal of mine to reference current research on my blog, so I'm glad to see someone else is.

No Hetero said...

This is interesting, though not exactly the most robust study. It's a goal of mine to reference current research on my blog, so I'm glad to see someone else is.

Janice said...

What is the correlation between watching porn to same sex marriage. I don't get the idea.

Dr. Joe Kort said...

Janice I think the study is showing that because straight men are viewing more porn they are more open to sexual differences. Too many people still see gays as mostly sexual. In this particular situation that seems to be something positive because through increased sexual exposure through porn they are becoming more accepting of gays.

Anonymous said...

This is a false assumption that these men are "straight" to begin with. If we're using the word bi-sexual, okay. But a man looking at gay (including tranny)is not heterosexual.

Anonymous said...

^ you need to take people out of those boxes you put them in. Watching heterosexual porn would not make a homosexual any less homosexual. So why would it be different for heterosexuals? You seem to confuse sexual behaviour with sexual identity/orientation. The porn might be gay but that does not mean the viewer is.