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Does Too Much Time on Porn Sites Lead to Depression?
Citing a study conducted by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, the India Times reported yesterday that heavy use of sex Web sites may lead to depression, high stress, and anxiety.
According to the study, which surveyed 1,325 men in the United States and Australia, men that regularly view porn and Web swinging sites have a 27-percent chance of having moderate to severe depression, a 30-percent chance of anxiety and a 35-percent chance of moderate to severe stress. A spokesperson for the study added that the more a subject was involved in these types of sites, the more intense his depression and anxiety would be.
Although we don't take argument with the study's statistics, we do think that the causal relationship they posit is a tad simplistic. Isn't it likely that a man who looks for intimacy on his bedroom computer, instead of out in the real world, is at least a little anxious to begin with? After all, Facebook sex-hunters aren't exactly beacons of emotional health, and those folks are at least looking for the real thing. [From: The India Times]
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Subscribe to commentsSmileypandaOct 29th 2008 8:57PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that maybe the people who look at porn are looking at it because they're depressed or stressed.
DarkLightOct 29th 2008 10:09PM
Exactly what I was going to say
I know from experience...... (*cough*)
backdoormanOct 30th 2008 2:20AM
Giant giggling asses always cures my depression
ChimOct 30th 2008 8:27AM
I would hazard a guess that a high percentage of people that eat bread suffer from depression, and that most serial killers are meat eaters.
What are these statistics trying to prove, when national statistics state 1/3 of people suffer from depression in some form during their lives, and anxiety and stress are at an all time high.
It's because of porn?
I doubt it.
LonnieDvDNov 18th 2008 8:32PM
I'm with Smileypanda, most of us go to porn sites to relieve stress.
MattDec 4th 2008 3:40AM
They come out with these studies all the time, like video games promote violence, stress and all kinds of other crap. People watch porn to relieve stress. I bet this is a study by some paranoid mom worrying that if her kid sees a pair of tits that he is going to lose his mind and start doing drive by shootings.