Findings in a recent opinion piece by two Indiana University students claims that pornography leads to a lack of emotion.
The piece by Abram Hess and Natalie Avon, which appeared recently in the Indiana Daily Student called internet pornography and it’s recent proliferation “a selfish and solitary pursuit.”
This based on the statistics that 37 percent of 18 to 24-year-old males who admit to visiting pornographic websites, according to a poll by Zogby International.
“Any relationship, romantic or otherwise, requires a level of selflessness on the part of both parties involved; it is judged that companionship is worth the compromise necessary to gain it,” the story said.
“The romantic relationship is perhaps the most selfless of all. This selflessness is generally unnatural at first, but a few thousand years of human experience seem to indicate that most of the species think it's worth the effort.”
According to Hess and Avon, their study found that pornography “divorces the selflessness of a romantic relationship from the sexual fulfillment found therein. It wraps the most intense of human passions and emotions in the package of a self-serving sexual rush and nullifies the most powerful impetus.”
Abrams is a senior at the university, majoring in Chemistry and is a freshman, majoring in Journalism.
