It wasn't clear how many of the women in the survey were actually part of the porn productions. And which porn productions did they ask the female students about? Was this survey only for the "BangBus"? Or did it also include "Coeds for Cash"?? It does make a real difference in the survey results. Sometimes the coeds that get ripped off after a ride in the BangBus do not want to admit their involvement in porn. It would skew the results depending on how many women from each production were interviewed. Hopefully we can get a few more facts about these coeds so we can understand what campus life is really like in Utah.
Hmmmm, 31% of the women polled watch porn?!?! Thats better than AMD's market share at any point! I like the numbers! Did they say where these pockets are centralized? Just for demographic studies, of course. Ahem.

SPARKS
As for religion and sex...a touchy subject... but let me ask you this one question...

If you had to buy a car, and this was supposedly the only car you are going to drive until the day you die, would you not prefer having driven in a different car to know if this is the one for you?

Frankly I'm quite happy with the growing increase in peoples' acceptance of porn. Perhaps this will provide the needed visual aids for those that cannot f*** to save their lives.

Amen and god bless.
grass is green, and women lie...lol, seriously...if a women saw only one porn video in all her life, and she watched it with a few friends or whatever, i would give a 90% probability that she would say she's never seen a porno ever...like girls that drunkenly lose their virginity to a guy they've never met before, they will probably pretend it never happened...liars...
This wasn't a survey or BYU students, it was a study conducted by BYU researchers... it involved 813 students from schools across the country. 

Quote:Carroll, a social sciences researcher at Brigham Young University, and his colleagues studied 813 college students from six schools across the USA. The students went online and answered questions about their views on pornography. 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...rn-study_N.htm

The inquirer worded their article in such a way as to make it appear as if it was predominantly LDS students taking part in that survey. Thats the inquirer for ya. 

Wonder why anyone even reads this garbage.
comparing romance novels to hardcore porn? please. do romance novels contain cum shots, deep throating, anal? please. romance novels are the softest of softcore porn. it's the equivalent of a victoria's secret catalog, or perhaps even the sport illustrated swimsuit issue. get real.
> surveyed 813 students online

I bet their survey respondents lied about their gender, just like in a chat room. 50% of the "women" in their survey said porn was OK. Let's see, that means about, um, 50% of the "women" were actually men?
Why were my 2 last comments on the INQ not ever posted while the rest of them before that were posted just fine? 

Becuase they were too controversial, I would guess? Too sensitive to the INQ editors, while not too bad to the public who accepts the fact that there are people with differing opinions in general?
I studied in the BYU statistics department and we did research on many different topics. Many of the professors aren't Mormon and regardless it is unlikely that they would publish a study nationally if the science was flawed subjectively.
That doesn't surprise me as judging by the sites I frequent, including myspace, at least half of young women have posted their own raunchy pics on the net at one time or another, i.e. half are actually producing porn, so not that surprising they don't object to it.
....men watch it, women read it. Some of us even [i]write[/i] it. We just call it "fan fiction" a "creative outlet" and "oh, nothing, just a study I was reading".

;)

I love the internet.
Online survey in this case is not relevant! This number only tell that almost all men who go ONLINE often watch porn. You will be surprised but there are some man who don't go online. And another thing who ever takes online surveys? Those people probably just clicked random answers.....
"BYU? really?
BYU has strict policy on facial hear, coffee, and clothing on their campus."

What - they don't allow them on campus? Sign me up!
In 20 years the liberal 'young adults' will respond to surveys like their parents do now, it's always the same.
Here's another survey I did, young kids are more positive about cartoons..
I just have to commend the author of this article on a very uncharacteristic piece for this site. Well-written, good English, and well-rounded. You actually took the time to point out all the factors not taken into account and potential flaws in the study. Nice work.

And yes, I would agree. For me, personally, internet pornography is simply a part of life. I think it's a completely positive thing and have no problem with it. My wife also is perfectly accepting of it, although she doesn't pay attention to it half as much as I do. I believe the gender differences relate to the fact that men are much more visually-stimulated than women. Studies have discussed this, and experience seems to prove it. My wife, and more women than not, seem to prefer sex with the lights off, while I and most men I've talked with, prefer the lights on, as the sight of the act is half the fun for us. That goes right along with this.

Anyway, as someone who IS pro-porn, I'm happy to see opinions on the matter shifting toward positive, and I'm glad women are beginning to accept it as well. Let's have fun with what we've got. Sexual hang-ups ruin that.
But lets face facts. The Internet has really fallen on it's face here, the quality of porn has dropped off dramatically. Acceptance has really increased because Internet porn, watching wannabe hookers fake orgasms, is numbingly unappealing. Geez, when I was a kid we walked to school and it was uphill in the snow in both directions.
.... that fewer women view porn. Let's face it, the majority of women can get men whenever they want.... men, being in the sad state that we are (especially us tech nerds - sorry, socially retar - crap! Sorry, socially deprived people), have to resort to porn to be sexually satisfied....

Also, i'm not sure on the relative amounts of male/female oriented porn out there... i'm going to take a good guess and say that the male-oriented porn is outweighs the female-oriented sort.

:)
A lot more women than that watch porn...trust me, I know. ^_^
THERES NOTHING LIKE A BROADS EYE VIEW. LONG LIVE THE PIG .
It wasn't clear how many of the women in the survey were actually part of the porn productions. And which porn productions did they ask the female students about? Was this survey only for the "BangBus"? Or did it also include "Coeds for Cash"?? It does make a real difference in the survey results. Sometimes the coeds that get ripped off after a ride in the BangBus do not want to admit their involvement in porn. It would skew the results depending on how many women from each production were interviewed. Hopefully we can get a few more facts about these coeds so we can understand what campus life is really like in Utah.
....how do you tell which half? Isn't this something that match.com should put on profiles?

Top half or bottom half?
Hmmmm, 31% of the women polled watch porn?!?! Thats better than AMD's market share at any point! I like the numbers! Did they say where these pockets are centralized? Just for demographic studies, of course. Ahem.

SPARKS
As for religion and sex...a touchy subject... but let me ask you this one question...

If you had to buy a car, and this was supposedly the only car you are going to drive until the day you die, would you not prefer having driven in a different car to know if this is the one for you?

Frankly I'm quite happy with the growing increase in peoples' acceptance of porn. Perhaps this will provide the needed visual aids for those that cannot f*** to save their lives.

Amen and god bless.
grass is green, and women lie...lol, seriously...if a women saw only one porn video in all her life, and she watched it with a few friends or whatever, i would give a 90% probability that she would say she's never seen a porno ever...like girls that drunkenly lose their virginity to a guy they've never met before, they will probably pretend it never happened...liars...
This wasn't a survey or BYU students, it was a study conducted by BYU researchers... it involved 813 students from schools across the country. 

Quote:Carroll, a social sciences researcher at Brigham Young University, and his colleagues studied 813 college students from six schools across the USA. The students went online and answered questions about their views on pornography. 

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...rn-study_N.htm

The inquirer worded their article in such a way as to make it appear as if it was predominantly LDS students taking part in that survey. Thats the inquirer for ya. 

Wonder why anyone even reads this garbage.
comparing romance novels to hardcore porn? please. do romance novels contain cum shots, deep throating, anal? please. romance novels are the softest of softcore porn. it's the equivalent of a victoria's secret catalog, or perhaps even the sport illustrated swimsuit issue. get real.
I love women (who love porn) lolz
> surveyed 813 students online

I bet their survey respondents lied about their gender, just like in a chat room. 50% of the "women" in their survey said porn was OK. Let's see, that means about, um, 50% of the "women" were actually men?
Why were my 2 last comments on the INQ not ever posted while the rest of them before that were posted just fine? 

Becuase they were too controversial, I would guess? Too sensitive to the INQ editors, while not too bad to the public who accepts the fact that there are people with differing opinions in general?
http://www.pornforgirlsbygirls.com/
I studied in the BYU statistics department and we did research on many different topics. Many of the professors aren't Mormon and regardless it is unlikely that they would publish a study nationally if the science was flawed subjectively.
That doesn't surprise me as judging by the sites I frequent, including myspace, at least half of young women have posted their own raunchy pics on the net at one time or another, i.e. half are actually producing porn, so not that surprising they don't object to it.
....men watch it, women read it. Some of us even [i]write[/i] it. We just call it "fan fiction" a "creative outlet" and "oh, nothing, just a study I was reading".

;)

I love the internet.
Online survey in this case is not relevant! This number only tell that almost all men who go ONLINE often watch porn. You will be surprised but there are some man who don't go online. And another thing who ever takes online surveys? Those people probably just clicked random answers.....
"BYU? really?
BYU has strict policy on facial hear, coffee, and clothing on their campus."

What - they don't allow them on campus? Sign me up!
In 20 years the liberal 'young adults' will respond to surveys like their parents do now, it's always the same.
Here's another survey I did, young kids are more positive about cartoons..
It's about time women found the true reason behind the internet. 
Next up: Gay sex is cool !
Women like to read their porn (romance novels, etc).

Men like to watch their porn (movies, etc).

Women just don't call it porn.
This data also allows us to conclude that approximately 70% of women are big fat liars.
I just have to commend the author of this article on a very uncharacteristic piece for this site. Well-written, good English, and well-rounded. You actually took the time to point out all the factors not taken into account and potential flaws in the study. Nice work.

And yes, I would agree. For me, personally, internet pornography is simply a part of life. I think it's a completely positive thing and have no problem with it. My wife also is perfectly accepting of it, although she doesn't pay attention to it half as much as I do. I believe the gender differences relate to the fact that men are much more visually-stimulated than women. Studies have discussed this, and experience seems to prove it. My wife, and more women than not, seem to prefer sex with the lights off, while I and most men I've talked with, prefer the lights on, as the sight of the act is half the fun for us. That goes right along with this.

Anyway, as someone who IS pro-porn, I'm happy to see opinions on the matter shifting toward positive, and I'm glad women are beginning to accept it as well. Let's have fun with what we've got. Sexual hang-ups ruin that.
But lets face facts. The Internet has really fallen on it's face here, the quality of porn has dropped off dramatically. Acceptance has really increased because Internet porn, watching wannabe hookers fake orgasms, is numbingly unappealing. Geez, when I was a kid we walked to school and it was uphill in the snow in both directions.
One thing that puts this article into perspective is the fact that BYU is 98% Mormon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham_Young_University
BYU has strict policy on facial hear, coffee, and clothing on their campus. I am surprised they would go anywhere near a study of porn.
.... that fewer women view porn. Let's face it, the majority of women can get men whenever they want.... men, being in the sad state that we are (especially us tech nerds - sorry, socially retar - crap! Sorry, socially deprived people), have to resort to porn to be sexually satisfied....

Also, i'm not sure on the relative amounts of male/female oriented porn out there... i'm going to take a good guess and say that the male-oriented porn is outweighs the female-oriented sort.

:)
The internet is for pr0n!
The internet is for pr0n!
All together now..."The internet is for p0rn!"