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Re:Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming... by daveFNbuck on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:03AM (#16041027)
From the abstract of the paper this article is about:

> Declines in sexual frequency were similar across gender, race, region, educational level, and work status and were largest among those in their 50s, those with school-age children, and those who did not watch pornography.

Porn isn't a viable explanation if the effect was larger among people who don't watch porn.

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Re:Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:58PM (#16041674)
> Porn isn't a viable explanation if the effect was larger among people who don't watch porn.

It is if porn is ubiquitous enough in society and is setting (or communicating) changing cultural expectations and signaling mechanisms related to sex, and those who abstain are therefore missing out on that context.

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Re:Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming... by daveFNbuck on Sunday December 31, 2017 @01:01PM (#16041687)
That's a very different explanation than the one I was responding to, in which men are having less sex because they'd rather just watch porn.
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Re:Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:40PM (#16043428)
That's true, I was responding to what you actually said in your response, not defending the position you were responding to.
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