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.
