Health committee  There is clearly a difference between violent and degrading pornography, and other forms of sexually explicit material, but it's not simple. First, I would direct your attention to the fact I have conducted experiments on violent pornography. That type of pornography has not bee

Health committee  The simple answer is that it's a bit of a moving target. I've spent 30 years doing HIV prevention research in various communities from South Africa to inner cities. I've done large-scale research in inner cities where kids start wanting to have babies at 13 1/2, and obviously you

Health committee  I'll go back to the subject of education. I was one of the originators, with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, of a website called SexualityandU.ca. We wished, if you will, to infect the Internet, which has some very horrific stuff, with some good stuff.

Health committee  There is widely cited “research”, quote/unquote, in line with your statement that the effects on the brain are like addiction, such as to heroin. Perhaps the best answer to that is from Nicole Prause, who was formerly at UCLA, a neuropsychologist, who has pointed out that the eff

Health committee  I'm very strongly in support of directly attacking the issue of sexual coercion, with or without attention to regulation of what Dr. Malamuth refers to as, and what I concur is, an unregulatable Internet. I think we can certainly all agree that there is an utterly unacceptable le

Health committee  Let me respond—forgive me—first with a question. What percentage of university undergraduate men use pornography on a daily or weekly basis?

Health committee  It's at least 80%, so this is not a distinctive finding. The base rate of the use of Internet pornography is very, very high among non-rapists, as well as sexual criminals. The second question has to be whether it is the fact that sexual criminals who possess a variety of anti-

Health committee  The question focuses on violent pornography. The first point I would emphasize—and I think that Dr. Malamuth and my other colleagues share this view as well—is that in this research area, there is no single definition of pornography. In fact, a recent review looked at about 42 di

Health committee  The question is whether I believe that exposure to pornography on the part of children is a form of child sexual abuse. I think context is all important. If an Internet lurker is using pornography to lure somebody or if someone hanging around a hockey arena—and I have three kids

Health committee  As my colleague Dr. Malamuth has suggested, there are no perfect studies. This is an area that many scientists are concerned about and have approached in different ways. There is no perfect study. What I've done in the last 10 minutes is to review multiple lines of evidence. We

Health committee  Let me conclude by thanking you for your attention. I'd be happy to converse with you further about this during the question period.

Health committee  Thank you. Good morning, Chairperson, and honourable members of Parliament. Thank you for asking me to talk with you about the public health impact of online violent and degrading pornography. I am a professor of psychology at Western University, and I have four decades of rese