NEWS FLASH: New Study Shows Porn Shrinks Your Brain!

[wasteland]

At least a few times a year, at least one new "scientific study" is published that shows that "porn is bad for you".

Take a peek at this commentary article about it:
http://www.eroticscribes.com/german-...shrinks-brain/

Comments, anyone?
Colin (whose brain has now shrunken to the size of a pea from watching so much porn!)

[seeandsee]

yeah right, who make such study shit?

[wasteland]

The fun part of that article was the rebuttal:

1. As the study was done in Germany, one can only assume the 67 subjects were watching German Porn. That would explain a lot of it. Have you ever SEEN German Porn? It?s not the cool and cutting edge stuff coming out of the USA, or the highly stylized and artistic content being produced in Spain, France, Australia and the Czech Republic. It?s primarily old-school, ?wham, bam, danke schön ma?am? fare, with the majority of spoken words by the female performers being ?OOOOOF!? and ?Ach, du lieber!?. Not that there?s anything wrong with that, but I do suspect an overdose of it might risk some neurological effects. (Next time you are in Germany in a hotel room, flip through the channels and you?ll pretty quickly get the idea!).

2. As one of the methods used in the study was to administer the test subjects called the ?Internet Sex Screening Test?, it?s interesting to note that this is a self-administered test provided by http://www.sexhelp.com/. Seeing this as one of the study?s methods, I took the 6 minutes needed to take this test. No surprise that, as I watch, edit or review porn as part of my job 7 days a week, I scored OFF THE CHART for having a horrid case of Sex Addiction! Also interesting to note that with the results, came a dire warning and recommendation to seek treatment immediately at one of the many fine sex addiction treatment facilities that advertise on their site. (I suspect health care insurance does not cover this sort of treatment, and can only imagine the cost of a 30-day in-patient stay at one of these fine facilities.)

3. The number of test subjects was only 67. All German and from Berlin. That seems like a rather small sampling to get any statistical significance, and as all subjects were male Berliners, their shrinking brains might also be caused by too much Strudel or Schnapps?
At the end of the day on these sort of ?scientific studies?, I tend to always be pretty wary of them. Not just for the possibly shoddy research methodology, but also the motivation of why the study was even conducted. Often, it?s yet another ploy by the anti-pornography advocates to push through censorship, scare people, and, in some cases, ramp up some clinical treatment revenues.

[zallboro]

I believe this is not true.

[wasteland]

Not true at all, but a great way for anti-porn groups to fund research to support censorship, etc. by scaring the crap out of people! lol

[michael.kickass]

The study also says that they cannot really link the reason to porn watching.

[MiamiBoyz]

Reading the Bible shrinks not only your IQ but the size of your cock!

[balint]

German scientists have a lot of time

[bronco67]

It sure doesn't make my dick shrink.