Katie Couric: Sick Of Sexual Science
I don’t watch much broadcast television, so I’d have missed this gem if not for Dr. Marty Klein, who recounts this dubious gem in a post called Beware Popular Lies About Sex:
Katie Couric recently embarrassed herself during an interview with psychologist David Ley about pornography. When he calmly described to her what a range of scientific studies say about porn’s effects on behavior and our brain — that it’s minimal — Couric raised her voice, rolled her eyes, and said she was sick of science. “Can’t we use some common sense here?”
Actually, no. Common sense clearly tells us that the Earth is flat. Want some science with that, Ma’am?
In contrast, Couric believed the fact-less, emotional rantings of her other guest — because they fit Couric’s existing beliefs. Like all morning TV hosts, her job is to say bland things, not to think.
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Katie Couric lost any claim she had to journalism a decade ago, and seems to be pretty narrow-minded, much more so than any journalist ( or even average human being ) should be.
I think the impacts can vary. I was recently having dinner with a soon to be wed bachelor, who admitted (in front of his fiancee and his older sister) that having open access to porn since he was a teenager meant he found it very hard to get aroused by anything short of quite extreme situations (I’m not sure what his fiancee’s pained expression at this point meant). His friends knew this, and thus had suggested visiting one Gentleman’s club where they put a clear screen above your chair, and someone shits onto the screen.
He wasn’t interested in that, but he said he would find it quite hilarious if he could watch two people shit into their hands and fling it at each other.
I’m not sure where his experience would fall on a graph of the impact of unfettered access to extreme porn, but it’s up there somewhere.
On the other hand, he was sexually abused as a child by a ‘friend’ of the family (who would bring booze so his mother and her then boyfriend would get drunk and be relatively unaware) in the years after his father died.
Perhaps porn helps him deal with some deeper unresolved issues.
Perhaps what we Really need is better sex ed, including guidance about staying in control of what kind of thing you get into online. Now that I’m over 30, it feels a bit wrong to look at naked women who look barely 18 and so I make a conscious choice to avoid that end of the spectrum.
Sadly, the article mentions sources, but does not link them.
I think Katie Couric needs to be taken to the woodshed, and have her bloomers taken down, and corporally punished, for her disbeliefs in science. ‘Six of the best’, six of the very best with a pliable stinging cane, across her naked rear end, would be a perfect solution.