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Old 01-31-2009, 12:39 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
That's what I'm saying, pornography isn't a cause of infidelity, if it was it would be fairly easy to measure that. (And didn't really mean porn addiction, just porn viewing in general).

I'd be interested to see that kind of research that porn would actually cause misogyny, establishing a causal relationship rather than just a correlation.
I just read an SCC court case which referenced a couple of studies done in the late 80s/early 90s.

As for the evolutionary biological argument, I do not accept its use when referring to ethical circumstances. As part of the modern social contract, we have endeavoured to do away with as much of our survivalist ethics as possible. Infidelity, as an ultimate cause, is almost certainly a matter of reproductive survival. It is a naturalistic fallacy to invoke biology as justification.
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