Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Historians Reay, Attwood and Gooder, describe sex addiction as ‘a response to cultural anxiety’ (Reay et al., 2015, p. np), while Ley, Prause and Finn (as clinical psychologists and neuroscientists) reject the concept of pornography addiction (Ley et al., 2014, p. 96). The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Ment
... See moreRoger Ingham • What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality)
Khazan notes that the evidence on the issue is not clear: ‘Whether porn is actually harming the health of adults who watch it is frustratingly hard to determine’
Roger Ingham • What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality)
But a moment’s reflection shows that the widespread use of porn—and the search and views data that comes with it—is the most important development in our ability to understand human sexuality in, well . . . Actually, it’s probably the most important ever.