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Originally Posted by djulian
What evidence would suffice? Any study presented would have a counterstudy. [...]
The question centers, after all, on whether people who frequently consume erotic/pornographic content continue to think of sex the same way as people who don't. I believe they do not continue to think the same way--what they consume affects them, and that after viewing pornography on a regular basis, they think about sex differently than before. If I'm right, then those people would likely reject my claims--they don't think that their thoughts on sex have changed or been affected in any negative way. They're just fine with the effects.
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The question of cause-and-effect also comes into it. Does reading certain material cause a person to behave a certain way, or do people that behave a certain way also have an affinity for particular content? How can you realistically separate cause-and-effect in these cases? Also, apropos this question and my previous post, it seems self-apparent that media often reflects societal mores rather than, necessarily, influencing them. There is a feedback loop going on here that makes the whole topic very murky.