The Seven Problems With Research On Young People And Porn
Research into the effects of porn on young people is full of contradictions and ideology and the evidence is often not clear. Read More …
Tag: children
Questioning The Moral Panic About “Sexualisation Of Children”
It keeps popping up on TV talk shows and is used as a debate silencer by right-wing pundits. Religious groups use it to put pressure on politicians to create greater censorship. It’s the term “sexualisation of children” and I suspect that it’s bullshit. I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this for a while but today I’ve found that Australian researcher Catherine Lumby has pretty much summed things Read More …
Study Shows Kids Are NOT At Risk Online
Psychology Today has a great article which nicely debunks the whole hysterical idea that children are in danger from sexual predators while online. It refers to the 278 page report by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force which looked at vast amounts of data about whether children were regularly solicited for sex online (as the hysteria would have us believe). The task force, led by Harvard researchers, looked at reams Read More …
Happiness Is No Children
My decision not to have kids was hard to make, but it was the right one for me. Now, it seems, I’ve been backed up by a psychologist who says that having children significantly reduces people’s happiness. Research from Europe shows that, while people are very happy when expecting a baby, this drops off when the child is born and the nappies start piling up. Apparently all those cute moments Read More …
No, I’m Not Having Children
The New York Observer has an interesting article on the increasing pressure on women to have children. One of the quotes therein says: “It’s almost un-American at this point to say you don’t want children… It’s almost like saying you’re a communist.” Well, I’m not American, but I’m not having children, and I can understand where they’re coming from with that quote. A couple of years ago I worked myself Read More …