Ha, that was just the line I was gonna quote myself!
Great essay, Rivka, would love to discuss and debate and all into the night, but too many hours of stuff here; but it occurred to me to wonder on the shock experiment, in the real world, what do men do while reading porn ("violent" or otherwise)? Right, they jack off. And I'd be willing to hypothesize that if the guys in the lab had been jacking off instead of just getting their hormones in a knot, they might not have had any measurable increase in lab-aggression, no matter what they'd just been looking at. In fact, it mighta gone way down. *wink*
Many, many other interesting and exciting lines and thoughts here. Glad Carene pointed me to it.
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Great essay, Rivka, would love to discuss and debate and all into the night, but too many hours of stuff here; but it occurred to me to wonder on the shock experiment, in the real world, what do men do while reading porn ("violent" or otherwise)? Right, they jack off. And I'd be willing to hypothesize that if the guys in the lab had been jacking off instead of just getting their hormones in a knot, they might not have had any measurable increase in lab-aggression, no matter what they'd just been looking at. In fact, it mighta gone way down. *wink*
Many, many other interesting and exciting lines and thoughts here. Glad Carene pointed me to it.
xxx, Mog