good grooming to teach women and men that their worth is tied up in their sexual performance. Well at least a few receive their pleasure in being perverts legally despite the damage to thousands of girls who can't match up. Selfishness and perversion wins out over common decency. Well I suppose of few more psychology classes in moral relativism might deaden the already seared consciences.

Killarney, who do you suggest McKee should have used as his research respondents?

>>who do you suggest McKee should have used as his research respondents?<<

A group of erotophobic wowsers of course: it's the only way to get accurate findings on the attitudes of porn users. Or at least the sort of findings Killarney would like to see.

Cheers,

Tony

Waterhole: ‘Killarney, who do you suggest McKee should have used as his research respondents?’

The very people he chose, of course. He set out to show that pornography has positive benefits on society. To do so, he strictly limited his research to a specific group of people whose vested interests, attitudes and behaviours would ‘prove’ that premise.

Based on that taxpayer funded research, he then wrote a commercially profitable book that has made him a must-call authority for anyone who wishes to promote ‘happy pornography’ awareness.

Tony: If you wish to reserve the right to label all porn critics as ‘erotophobic wowsers’, then porn critics reserve the equal and opposite right to label all porn defenders as ‘sex-addicted perverts’ or similar. Neither stance achieves anything other than a sense of self-righteousness in the labeller.

Well done Killarney - you weren't that far away after all. Cancer research and almost any other research I can immediately think of is conducted using (typical) respondents and the general (read commercial )outcome for the researcher is generally the same.

On the same subject but different - Sexpo's are not necessarily all about porn.

Thanks, Killarney, for providing some balance to the ‘independent’ research discussed in the article.

I haven’t been afforded the luxury of government money to do research on pornography. But my experience tells me that men and women see porn very differently. Generally speaking, one group can see the allure and the other can’t. To the extent that pornography is a significant factor in our climbing divorce rates and other social destructions.

I was pleased to see when I filled my car up last weekend that the local Shell service station had moved the magazine rack away from the main walkway to a more sided position. The more ‘girly’ magazines (described above as ‘benign’) were placed behind a type of opaque plastic screen so that the ‘benign’ images weren’t so right in your face as compared with what often happens these days when you try to buy some milk or petrol.

I wish to thank this Shell service station for probably responding to its customers’ wishes. I will likely be frequenting this Shell store more often. This may be to their financial and commercial advantage. And money finishing in someone’s pocket is what commerce is all about. I sense that is what Sexpo is mainly about. It’s not about sex. It’s not about health. It’s about growing an industry, for better or for worse.