If that isn’t a sign of a problematic survey with kids intentionally giving silly answers I don’t know what is. I remember when a bunch of sociologists came to our high school to do careful surveys by interview. After they left everyone was laughing about the answers they gave.

There is good sociology and bad sociology but it often isn’t easy to tell them apart merely from the papers themselves.

I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but there do seem to be subtle changes in s8xual attitudes and activities. There is more role modelling of s8xual behaviour so blow j8bs are improving.

“According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control, the number of heterosexuals having an*l s*x nationwide has almost doubled since 1992.
…
While on tour promoting her memoir, Jenna Jameson was reportedly stunned that 13-year-old girls kept telling her she was their role model. In a survey of 1,000 British girls between the ages of 15 and 19, roughly 25 percent said they aspired to become professional lap dancers.”

://www.details.com/sex-relationships/porn-and-perversions/200907/how-internet-porn-is-changing-teen-sex?currentPage=2#ixzz0sNg3RsZm

Meanwhile in Sweden group s8x is becoming more common amongst teens.

http://www.thelocal.se/3827/20060517/

what are you’re intuitive numbers. give me mean # of minutes per day, stdev if you could, at 5 year intervals.

obviously you aren’t logically wrong in the type of argument you’re using. but it’s the same form as those worrying about ‘information overload’ and all sorts of other things. the cocktail is simple:

1) take something that’s a big change

2) project into the future big harms

the sample space of possibilities are large. but we focus on stuff that impacts sex and violence, for example, mostly because of the importance of sex & violence. in other cultures it might not be porn, but changing norms in how women dress.

also, give me some concrete consequences. i know lots of different people have different ideas, but i’m curious as to where your worries are coming from (these are, by the way the issues which social conservatives have pondered for centuries).

respectfully, Razib, I think you’re looking too short term, at data that means little — I don’t believe the ease, ubiquity of, and attention to porn 10-15 yrs. ago was close to what it is today (even though it was around). What I want to know is how the 10-yr. olds of TODAY behave 15-25 yrs. from NOW, and that data we have to wait for. (The counter argument I s’pose some may make is that massive exposure to porn will simply cause it to LOSE any major effect, in the same way that ’4-letter’ words lose their punch when used repetitively.)

http://blog.ted.com/2009/12/cindy_gallop_ma.php

and expanded on the issue in this longer speech at the L2 GenerationNext Forum in NYC last month:

http://fora.tv/2010/05/14/Cindy_Gallop_Make_Love_Not_Porn

as i noted above

1) we do know what 10-15 years will do. not much.

2) you do know that the reasons people give for relationships breaking up may not be the true cause? as i indicated above, psychological rationales are often dependent on the particular time (e.g., men running away from life around 1900 because of “nervous exhaustion”, relationships breaking about due to freudian complexes circa 1960).

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/166189/

Require by law that all brothel staffing be 60 years of age or more. That puts a nice government twist on it. American women are monsters. One need not wonder why those who can choose overseas feminine women over the local product.

On that note,

(totally NSFW) part 1 part 2

(I’ve posted these before, but … but I don’t have a problem with that.)