Majority Of Men Under 40 Who Support Gay Marriage Use Porn Daily, Says Regnerus

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The majority of men aged 23-39 who use pornography daily “strongly agree” that same-sex marriage should be legal, according to the author of the grievously flawed and, what some say, fraudulent, anti-gay parenting “study,” Mark Regnerus.

In “Porn Use and Supporting Same-Sex Marriage” at the Witherspoon Institute‘s blog, Regnerus says he went through his data from his (fatally flawed) study and mined the (fatally flawed) data to discern this “fact”:

But of the men who view pornographic material “every day or almost every day,” 54 percent “strongly agreed” that gay and lesbian marriage should be legal, compared with around 13 percent of those whose porn-use patterns were either monthly or less often than that. Statistical tests confirmed that porn use is a (very) significant predictor of men’s support for same-sex marriage, even after controlling for other obvious factors that might influence one’s perspective, such as political affiliation, religiosity, marital status, age, education, and sexual orientation.

The same pattern emerges for the statement, “Gay and lesbian couples do just as good a job raising children as heterosexual couples.” Only 26 percent of the lightest porn users concurred, compared to 63 percent of the heaviest consumers. It’s a linear association for men: the more porn they consume, the more they affirm this statement. More rigorous statistical tests confirmed that this association too is a very robust one.

A recent Gallup poll, out this month, found 73% of all Americans aged 18-29 believe same-sex marriage should be legal, as do 49% of those aged 30-49.

Regnerus amusingly admits:

While I realize that eight of the top ten states in terms of online porn consumption voted Republican in the 2008 presidential election, I’m analyzing individuals’ survey responses, not state-level data, which prevents me from falling into the trap of the ecological fallacy, or deducing things about individuals from the groups of which they are a part.

(If you were a researcher, would this be a factoid you’d totally go after?)

And

Women typically aren’t as into porn as men are, and yet women in general tend to support same-sex marriage more readily than do men.

Yes, nothing to see here, move along, these are not the droids you’re looking for…

Of course, I’m certain there are plenty of women who are “into porn,” but that’s a topic for another day.

There’s something truly ugly and unsettling about a “researcher” who bases his “research” on his theological and social beliefs. You’ll have to read Regnerus’ bile — I’m not wasting my time on it.

And then there’s this:

Moreover, the web’s most popular pornographic sites do little to discriminate one sex act—or category of such—from another. Gazers are treated to a veritable fire-hose dousing of sex-act diversity. (These are not your grandfather’s Playboy.) So, add to the sharing of bodies temporarily and nonexclusively a significant dose of alternative forms of sexual activity—positions, roles, genders, and numbers—and that’s basically where porn presses its consumers today: away from sex as having anything approaching a “marital meaning” or structure of the sort outlined in the article cited above.

Which Regnerus uses to support this:

In the end, contrary to what we might wish to think, young adult men’s support for redefining marriage may not be entirely the product of ideals about expansive freedoms, rights, liberties, and a noble commitment to fairness. It may be, at least in part, a byproduct of regular exposure to diverse and graphic sex acts.

I mean, how deep a religious lens does Regenerus use to support his strange world view?

There’s little point in attempting to rationalize Regnerus’ flailing attempts to become relevant.

What is clear is the University of Texas has on its hands a one-man disaster and embarrassment machine (could their continued support of Regnerus lead to an inquiry of UT’s accreditation?), and they should really reel him in before he wins the Paul Cameron Award.

 

Hat Tip: Alvin McEwen

New Civil Rights Movement author Scott Rose was written nearly 100 articles on, including, and fully debunking the Regnerus “study.” You can read his work here, and all our Regnerus articles here.