College students — male and female — tend to find pornography acceptable. That's according to a study by Brigham Young University, to be published in the January issue of the Journal of Adolescent Research.
The study, which included more than 800 students at six colleges, found 86 percent of men had viewed porn in the last year. Surprisingly, nearly half of the women said that was OK by them.
Professor Jason Carroll, who authored the study, said the numbers speak volumes.
“This might be an indication of the way porn is portrayed in the popular media," he said, "the way that they see it in the sitcoms, the shows, the way it’s talked about, where it’s so normative and mainstream.”
The study also found 37 percent of the fathers surveyed and 20 percent of the mothers agreed with their kids’ acceptance of porn.
Pat Trueman with the Alliance Defense Fund said: “Most every cell phone today can access the Internet, so parents may be blocking sites on their home computer, but the kids can go anywhere and get porn on their cell phone.”
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