Stephen Armstrong
Yahoo Lifestyle
You want to know what I have in common with Osama bin Laden? If the US military busted open my computer, they’d find porn on the hard drive, just like bin Laden. And if the leader of a movement that grew from a hardline religious revolt at the decadence of the West watches internet porn – well, who’s left?
According to Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse, of the University of Montreal, the answer is – no-one. In 2009, he began a study into the different sex habits of men in their 20s who used porn, and men in their 20s who did not. Would they be different in bed? Would they treat women differently? Would they think of them differently? The professor hit a snag. “We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” he said at the time. “We couldn’t find any.” It’s 10 years since broadband rolled out, meaning there’s a generation of men who have always had hardcore at the click of a mouse.
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