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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Not Pornography but Movies
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 14:52:20 EST
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> >     Actually, there was a half-decent (and methodologically correct) study
> >in the Journal of Communication about two years ago.
> > ...It was shown that exposure
> >to even "non-hurtful" films with explicit sexual content ...
> > had the nonlinear result of changing the
> >students' attitudes towards certain sexual crimes and perfectly normal acts.
> 
> After seeing "Mad Max", "Road Warrior", and playing _Car Wars_ all in one
> weekend, I noticed my driving became much more aggressive.

"Methodologically correct" is rather vague.  You need a control in which
subjects are exposed to films with no eroticism at all.

I suspect that exposure to _any_ film changes people's sexual attitudes.
It has to do with the way that a giant movie screen assaults the viewer's
senses.  People in movies are automatically changed into something else.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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